The beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder!
People all around the globe love to buy stuff from those stores that are designed beautifully and have some appealing structure. If you are a store owner and looking for high-quality themes that offer a bunch of amazing features, then the SM Market theme should be your option.
It offers you a range of impressive features and functionalities to build your Magento stores in a quick time. It is a multipurpose Magento theme built with amazing support.
To have a remarkable experience, you need to look at your pocket and spending some money would be worth it. If you want to know more about the SM Market theme and its features.
Overview: SM Market Theme
The SM Market is a responsive Magento 2 theme that is fully customizable and suitable for ecommerce stores. Especially for those store owners who want to build a marketplace or a multi-category store with multiple branches and products such as an online market store, clothing store, furniture store, book store, cosmetics shop, luxury jewelry & accessories store, etc.
The categories available with the Magento Market theme facilitate you to show many sections with static blocks, nice images, and texts. That also helps in displaying valuable information about your store.
With the SM Market theme, it is easier for any merchant to improve their online store by using some useful magento extensions.
Some of the salient features of SM Market Magento theme are:
- Fully Compatible with Magento2 Marketplace Extension by VNecoms
- Compatible with Smart One Step Checkout, Automatic Related Products Reward Points Modules by Aheadworks
- Compatible with CM Multivendor Extension
- Compatible with Webkul Marketplace Extension
- Compatible with Zeon_Manufacturer Extension
SM Market Main Features
The SM Market theme is lightweight, fast, and comes with infinite customization options. Let’s have a look at some of its amazing features:
100% Responsive Layouts
The most significant feature of any Magento 2 theme is its responsiveness. Being an online store owner, you must ensure that your ecommerce store should be responsive if you want to capture a great number of visitors.
If you are using a laptop, a PC, iPad or smartphone, SM Market theme will help you have a good-looking responsive layout for your Magento website. Let’s check out how the Magento Market theme fits on different devices.
One-Click Importer
There is no need to waste time struggling to create Demo Pages, Static Blocks or CMS pages. The Magento SM Market theme offers a 1-click import functionality. You just have to click on an import button to have any pages with sample content from the demo within no time.
Ajax Cart Pro, Ajax Shopping Cart
Ajax shopping cart feature is also known as “SM QuickCart Pro” which has integrated with more specific Modules of Ajax: Add to Cart, Add to Compare, Add to WishList, QuickView and so on.
That’s the quality of the SM Market theme that doesn’t make your website re-load during the usage of any features as mentioned above. Even though it has the ability to edit directly in your Cart by adding more or reduce the number of products.
Besides, the Magento Market theme ensures that this feature helps in CSS and JS minification. So your audience can experience the smoothest and fastest loading time for a better online shopping environment.
Ajax Layered Navigation
Customers will go away if you won’t offer convenience for them and help them to find what they want to buy. The Magento SM Market theme helps you to bring more sales with the help of Ajax Layered Navigation, it helps customers to filter the exact product they are looking for which saves their time and want to visit your store again.
Product Page Layouts
With the SM Market theme, you can extend your product details page with multiple layout options. SM Market theme provides various kinds of detail page layout customization’s that you can opt for as per your online store requirements.
22+ Header Styles
With the Magento Market theme, you can enjoy 22+ header styles for your Magento store. All the styles are different from each other. You can choose any one of them and see how it suits your business niche. Be recreative, try something unique when owning the SM Market theme.
Magento 1 EOL Is Coming Sooner?
Worried about your Magento 1 store security or looking for reliable way to upgrade from M1 to M2.
Other SM Market Theme Features
Check out some more features that you might be interested in using with the SM Market theme.
-
Mega Menu & Vertical Menu
The built-in mega menu is the perfect choice for large menus. You can set up columns and rows, user icons and images easily.
-
Google Fonts
The Magento SM Market theme built with new web technology: Bootstrap 3, Font Awesome 4, LESS, CSS3, HTML5 that makes the theme more powerful and flexible.
-
Rich Snippets
It allows you to control the appearance of your product attributes such as product name, image, reviews, and other useful information that appears in organic Google search results.
-
Unlimited Color
There are different colors available for your choice in the Admin Panel. You can also make your own color theme easily.
-
Easy to Customize
SM Market allows you to change the homepage layout, color, menu styles, etc in the admin panel without disturbing any lines of code.
-
Color Swatches
Color swatches are an amazing feature by Magento Market theme. The function integrated into configurable products which can show the customers how a product looks like in different colors.
-
Quick View
Your product details will open with all necessary information like image product, product price, description, product reviews, product attributes.
Compatibility
SM Market Magento Theme is fully compatible with Magento Community Edition versions 1.9.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x. If you want to know more about Magento version 1.9. X then read here.
Please Note: If you are using an older version (Magento 1.9.x only), you should not upgrade to the latest version, because the SM market has changed the layout structure in subsequent versions, (from version 4.4.0 – Example: Camera slider module to static block, etc.).
SM Market Theme: Installation Tips
For the SM Market theme installation, I’ve launched a new Magento server on the Cloudways Platform.
If you are new to Cloudways, don’t worry because I’m going to explain each step in detail from launching the server to finalizing the SM Market theme installation.
First, you have to create an account with Cloudways. Once done, follow this GIF to launch your first Magento server:
Once you have created an account and launched the Magento server, it’s time to upload the SM Market theme to the server. For this, I will use FileZilla.
You will need server credentials (from the Master Credentials tab).
Setup your connection with FileZilla, and drag & drop two main theme files, app and pub to the public_html directory of the Magento application.
The transfer can take some time because there are a lot of files including XML, CSS, UI library, jQuery UI styles, and images. Once the theme has been uploaded, you need to run some commands on Composer.
Launch the SSH terminal, and access the root directory to execute the following commands.
Run the following command to upgrade your store while installing or upgrading any theme and extensions.
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
The command for deploy static content allows Magento 2 to perform the following actions:
- Analyze all static resources
- Perform merge, minimization, and bundling of content
- Read and process theme data
- Analyze theme fallback
- Store all processed and materialized content to a specific folder for further usage
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f
Next, access the Magento Admin Panel and set SM Market theme as a default theme. Navigate to Content > Configuration, and click the Edit option of the Main Website Store.
From the dropdown menu, select the SM Market theme and hit Save Configuration.
Now, it’s time to configure the theme as per your own business requirement. For that, navigate to Store > Configuration > Import Static Blocks, Import Page, and choose from the 20+ Demo(s). Finally, save the configuration.
Don’t forget to clear the cache from the Admin Area or run the command: php bin/magento cache:flush
That’s it! Now it’s time to add images, set catalogs, and customize the theme.
Optimize Magento Speed Like a Pro
Subscribe now and get a free ebook to your inbox.
Thank You
Your Ebook is on it’s Way to Your Inbox.
SM Market Theme Performance with Cloudways
As mentioned that it is a lightweight with better page load performance, I’m attaching the page load speed of the theme as Cloudways also provides an unbeatable Magento hosting stack including Varnish, Redis, OPcache and much more.
Besides, this theme isn’t completely optimized and the result is quite satisfactory via Pingdom server location Tokyo, Japan.
Please Note:
- SM Market theme recommends PHP version 7.1 for the Magento 2.2.4+ versions.
- SM Market theme recommends PHP version 7.1.3+ for the Magento 2.3.x versions.
To know more about the technicalities and installation process, read the technical documentation.
Final Thoughts!
This brings us to the end of this blog. With SM Market Theme for Magento, you can build any kind of Magento website and control every single element of your website. With its bunch of easy customization, a developer can easily build a top-quality website without paying a heavy cost.
Download the SM Market theme now and play around with its customization. If you’re already using the SM Market theme, then drop your feedback in the comment section below.
Abdur Rahman
Abdur Rahman is the Magento whizz at Cloudways. He is growth ambitious, and aims to learn & share information about Ecommerce & Magento Development through practice and experimentation. He loves to travel and explore new ideas whenever he finds time. Get in touch with him at [email protected]