With the recent boom of online shopping, people are looking for easier, manageable, and faster solutions to develop their ecommerce stores. WordPress and WooCommerce, in my opinion, provide the easiest way to develop a fully functional ecommerce store, even if you don’t have any coding skills.
WooCommerce is here to stay and it is all due to the ease of deployment. However, the theme used for the WooCommerce website plays an important part. It needs to be compatible with WooCommerce standards. Furthermore, it also has an important cosmetic value.
What makes your store stand out is the theme that you put up on your WooCommerce store. Luckily, there are so many free themes available on the internet to choose from. It is all because of the leading WordPress theme development companies.
Best Free WooCommerce Themes for Ecommerce Stores
In this blog, I have alphabetically listed out the top 15 best free WooCommerce themes compatible with WordPress that will help you develop a money-churning web store without any fuss.
1. Bazaar Lite
Bazaar Lite is a theme designed for ecommerce. Elegant and minimal design, the products are highlighted. Bazaar Lite is fully compatible with the WooCommerce plugin and has continuous scrolling to keep users as long as possible and encourage them to buy. Unlimited sidebars, the slider Nivo Slider and a layout of type Masonery make this theme the model of an ecommerce site to have.
Features
- Infinite scroll
- Nivo slider and bx slider
- Full option panel
- Unlimited Sidebars
- Custom body background
Rating
Bazaar Lite theme has a rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 5 reviews
2. Beautiplus
Beautiplus is one of the best free WooCommerce themes. It is easily customizable and has many powerful features. It’s perfect for photography, weddings, fitness, health, gym, yoga, blogging, and any type of business. Beautiplus is compatible with WooCommerce, Nextgen Gallery, Contact Form 7, and many other popular plugins for WordPress.
Features
- Responsive multipurpose theme
- Easy customization
- Access to Google Fonts
- Accepts shortcodes
- Custom widgets
Rating
This theme has a rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 2 reviews
3. Easy Store
Easy Store is a beautifully designed theme to create your ecommerce completely compatible with the most popular WooCommerce plugin. The theme comes with a clean and elegant design that is easy to improve in development. It is completely responsive, ready for translation, SEO friendly, and compatible with WooCommerce, YITH WooCommerce Wishlist, and popular plugins. Use this theme for your ecommerce site, and you will live the best experience ever.
Features
- Full Woocommerce compatible
- Responsive design
- Unlimited color option
- Build-in customizer
- Highly customizable
- Retina ready
Rating
This theme has a rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 46 reviews
4. eStore by ThemeGrill
Ecommerce has become one of the important aspects of any business. Now, it is very important to present your featured products in a simple and organized way when it comes to the online store. eStore is a free WooCommerce theme and does exactly the same thing.
eStore theme integrates everything you need: basket, crate, collection, category, and everything is designed with the utmost care. The eStore, a free WooCommerce theme, gives you total control over your online store.
In addition to the WooCommerce plugin integration, there is a YITH plugin that allows visitors to create a wish list in your store so that the visitors can come back later and make their purchases. The eStore theme can also be used to create magazines or blogging websites.
Features
- Ecommerce ready
- Custom menu, logo, and colors
- RTL language support
- Footer widgets
- Left and right sidebar
- Threaded comments
Rating
This theme has a rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 109 reviews
5. The NewsMag
The NewsMag is a free WooCommerce WordPress theme that fits perfectly with your needs to easily create a magazine or news site. This theme supports almost all article formats available in WordPress. It allows you to display your latest articles in several ways on the home page, creating a hierarchy among the most important articles.
NewsMag also provides visual clues in the form of colorful category labels, so you know which category an article belongs to at a glance.
Features
- Display of latest post as a headline
- Custom social menu
Rating
This theme has a rating of 5 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 22 reviews
6. NewsMag by machothemes
NewsMag Lite is incredibly flexible and versatile, modern and at the cutting edge of technology, perfectly responsive, and dedicated to creating an online magazine in any field. NewsMag Lite is a free WordPress theme for developers looking for a permanent solution for their online magazine.
NewsMag Lite was designed with a ton of incredible template demos, suitable for any online magazine possible and imaginable. Each template demo is completely customizable and gives complete control over your magazine’s visual style and design at every stage.
Sliders and carousels are also available to display your best content, articles, and images elegantly and attractively.
Features
- Advanced custom fields
- Contact form
- Custom background support
- Google fonts
- Dynamic widgets
- Redux framework
Rating
This theme has a rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 18 reviews
7. Read More
Read More is another blogging theme designed for professional bloggers, but this one comes with some more business-oriented elements than the previous theme. This is a theme designed to meet the needs of the modern or classic blogger, whether for casual or personal blogs, professional blogs, businesses, and journalists.
With a large number of high-end features, you can easily customize the site to your needs. In addition, Read More is a cross-browser compatible with a responsive, WooCommerce-compatible layout and ready-to-translate theme.
Read More is a theme directly based on the Customizer, and with custom widgets, it will make an amazing website beautiful.
Features
- Build for Blog/Magazine
- Cross-Browser Compatibility
- Translation Ready
- Breadcrumb Options
- Added Custom Widgets
Rating
This theme has a rating of 5 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 7 reviews
8. Shop Isle
Shop Isle is a theme designed for online shops, compatible with the popular WooCommerce plugin. Thanks to its flexibility ShopIsle can also be used for corporate sites or blog a page, with a full-screen image and a parallax effect.
The theme offers a complete and attractive shop for many types of products. The header, wallpaper, and colors are customizable.
Featuring a simple, minimal, and elegant style, Shop Isle will be ideal for apparel sites, electronics, and almost any type of store.
Features
- Photo Gallery Grid
- Contact Form 7 ready
- SiteOrigin Page Builder
- JetPack compatible
Rating
This theme has a rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 101 reviews
9. Storefront by WooThemes
Storefront is the (only) best free WooCommerce theme offered by WooThemes. This is the flagship theme of WooThemes, which specializes in creating WooCommerce themes. This theme has been designed from A to Z to offer full compatibility with the WooCommerce WordPress plugin. This free theme offers the most possibilities in terms of customization. Storefront theme allows you to create a WooCommerce shop by taking advantage of this plugin’s features.
Features
- WooCommerce integration
- Just enough display options
- Ecommerce-focused homepage
- Accessibility ready
Rating
This theme has a rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 140 reviews
10. StoreVilla by Access Keys
StoreVilla is a free WooCommerce theme for making an online ecommerce site store based on WordPress. This theme offers a stylish design that appeals to users from the very first glance and tries to convince users to purchase from your ecommerce store.
Entirely based on Live Customizer, the StoreVilla theme gives you an easy way to add products, and classify and display them beautifully on your WooCommerce store. It also offers you a highly customizable homepage by which you can easily customize sections of the homepage and build a unique layout for your ecommerce store.
Features
- Customizable homepage
- Advanced product search
- 10 different widgets
- Unlimited slider options
- Fully built on customizer
- Fully SEO optimized
- Translation ready
Rating
This theme has a rating of 5 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 33 reviews
11. Sparkling
The design of Sparkling is not only innovative but also very professional, elegant, and multicolored. It is very simple to edit and offers very fluid navigation. This theme is not originally an ecommerce theme but can become so thanks to the WooCommerce plugin. You can customize the design with the many templates available without having any knowledge of code. This is a very light theme, so pages load very quickly. Many materials will help you take advantage of this theme’s benefits.
Features
- WordPress Customizer
- SEO friendly
- Compatible with WPML
Rating
This theme has a rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 156 reviews
12. SparkleStore
Sparkle Store is a clean, beautiful, and fully customizable WooCommerce theme. This theme includes many exciting features that enhance the ecommerce experience. This theme is fully compatible with WooCommerce and YITH WooCommerce, as well as with the YITH Wishlist and WooCommerce Quick View plugins.
This theme contains many premium features and several custom widgets to create a professional and well-organized online store.
Features
- Collection Template
- 8+ Custom Widgets
- 7+ Widget Areas
- YITH WC Wishlist Compatible
- Build in Customizer
- Products Quick View
- Child Theme Support
- Translation Ready
Rating
This theme has a rating of 4 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 15 reviews
13. Virtue
Virtue is a versatile theme with a sober and efficient design using Bootstrap, HTML5, and CSS3 technologies. It is, therefore, perfectly responsive and has an incalculable number of features. But some are paying (freemium model). The Virtue theme can easily be transformed into an online store thanks to its compatibility with WooCommerce. You can customize the homepage thanks to the different models proposed by the editor. Virtue finally offers a translation option.
Features
- Header Menu Options
- Boxed Layout
- WooCommerce Stores
- Portfolio Post
- Typography
- One-Click Demo Import
Rating
This theme has a rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 223 reviews
14. WP Store
WP Store is a WooCommerce template with different demos to meet your expectations. The theme is best suited for all kinds of online stores such as food and drinks, interiors, fashion, corporate, technology, accessories, etc. It comprises lots of customization possibilities and multiple options. You can easily create a complete ecommerce site within a few minutes.
Features
- Multi-web layout
- Fully based on a customizer
- Option to enable/disable ticker for products promo/news
- Powerful ecommerce functionality
- Highly configurable homepage
Rating
This theme has a rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 19 reviews
15. Zerif Lite
Zerif Lite’s modern design, with call-to-action highlighting, is particularly suited for site marketing technology services but may be suitable for more traditional ecommerce uses. Responsive design, the theme Zerif Lite uses Bootstrap 3 technology and offers a satisfactory SEO parameter level. Like most of the themes in this article, Zerif Lite is compatible with WooCommerce.
Features
- Mega Menus
- Translation & RTL Ready
- SEO Friendly
- Live Customizer
- 1-Minute Setup & Demo Content Available
- 1-Click Updates & Fast Support
Rating
This theme has a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 333 reviews
Summary
These were the 15 free WooCommerce themes for e-commerce stores. Explore each of these and decide what suits your design perception the most.
These are a few more free WooCommerce themes you can find on the internet, like Astra. The best place to look for them is the WordPress.org theme directory. If you know about any free WooCommerce-compatible WordPress theme apart from this list, do share it with us in the comments section.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q. How do I change the theme in WooCommerce?
Changing the theme of the WooCommerce store is a simple matter of changing the theme through Appearance > Themes. Next, select the theme you wish to apply.
Q. What is the best theme for WooCommerce?
There is no such thing as a single best theme for WooCommerce stores. In general, you should select a theme with a clean codebase, lightweight and specially built for ecommerce stores.
Q. Can WooCommerce be used with any theme?
While you can use any theme for a WooCommerce store, experts suggest using a specially developed theme to address all the challenges of running an ecommerce store.
Q. Is WooCommerce free to use?
If you are already thinking about using WooCommerce to create your online store, you have made the right choice! In fact, it is free and also the most used WordPress plugin for creating an online ecommerce store.
Q. Is WordPress good for an online store?
WordPress is one of the best platforms for creating an online ecommerce store. It is an open-source plugin that offers unlimited customization options and is backed by a community of world-class professionals.
Q. How much is WooCommerce monthly?
Since WooCommerce is a free WordPress plugin, your monthly cost solely depends on your theme, hosting service, and the SysAdmin you hire.
Q. Does WooCommerce charge transaction fees?
No, WooCommerce does not charge any transaction fees like other ecommerce platforms such as Shopify.
Liza Rajput
Liza Rajput is a Technical Content Producer at Cloudways. Being a software engineer, she loves to play with data and its processes and wishes to grow and excel in Data Science and Big Data Engineering. She has also been an avid reader and exceptional writer, with sufficient experience in technical, research-based, and creative writing.
