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. These themes works seamlessly with our WooCommerce and WordPress hosting.
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. Blocksy
Blocksy is a super light & high-performance WooCommerce theme. The theme is noted for its speed and lets you build an online store without any coding skills.
Another thing that makes Blocksy a wonderful choice is its customization capabilities. The theme gives control over almost any aspect of the website, from layout settings to headers and more. Paired with some of the best WooCommerce functionalities on the market, Blocksy becomes a super-powerful tool any e-store can use to its advantage.
Features
- 100% compatible with Gutenberg
- Ready to be translated into any language
- Fully responsive for mobile users
- Offers a live preview of all the changes
Rating
This theme has a rating of 5 out of 5 stars on WordPress.org based on 837 reviews.
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Shop Mania
Shop Mania is a purpose-built WooCommerce theme designed to enhance user experience. The theme includes customizable headers, product grids, and multiple layout options, ensuring flexibility in design. Users benefit from product filtering, quick view, a floating cart, product comparison, a wishlist, and a dedicated product page for showcasing items.
Additionally, the theme supports popular page builders like Elementor, making it easy to build custom pages without coding. It also integrates with SEO tools, ensuring search engine visibility.
Features
- 60+ pre-designed templates
- WooCommerce Addons
- Multiple Header & Footer
- Multiple Mobile ThemeÂ
- Highly customizable
- Fast and lightweight
- Translation ready
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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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Q. What are the best free WooCommerce themes for WordPress?
Some of the best free WooCommerce themes include Astra, Neve, OceanWP, Storefront, and Hestia. These themes offer excellent customization options, are lightweight, and are optimized for eCommerce stores.
Q. Can I use free WooCommerce themes for a professional online store?
Yes, free WooCommerce themes can be used for professional online stores. Many free themes, like Storefront and Astra, are designed with eCommerce features such as product showcases, responsive design, and fast loading speeds. However, you may need premium plugins or extensions for advanced features.
Q. Are free WooCommerce themes SEO-friendly?
Most free WooCommerce themes are SEO-friendly, with clean code and fast loading speeds. Popular themes like Neve and OceanWP are optimized for search engines and mobile responsiveness to improve rankings and user experience.
Q. Can I customize free WooCommerce themes?
Yes, free WooCommerce themes offer customization options via the WordPress Customizer. While features may be limited compared to premium themes, you can often modify colors, fonts, layouts, and add widgets.
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. How do I install a free WooCommerce theme?
A. To install a free WooCommerce theme:
- Go to your WordPress Dashboard.
- Navigate to Appearance > Themes.
- Click Add New and search for the theme.
- Click Install, then Activate the theme.
Sarim Javaid
Sarim Javaid is a Sr. Content Marketing Manager at Cloudways, where his role involves shaping compelling narratives and strategic content. Skilled at crafting cohesive stories from a flurry of ideas, Sarim's writing is driven by curiosity and a deep fascination with Google's evolving algorithms. Beyond the professional sphere, he's a music and art admirer and an overly-excited person.
