WooCommerce is the most customizable e-commerce platform for create an online store. It is popular and is free, but you will extend these features with premium plugins available on CodeCanyon.
But do you really need to use a WooCommerce theme?
Although it is not absolutely necessary, I recommend it however.
Not only are the WooCommerce themes focused on selling online, and the whole thing respects the style of WooCommerce. The CSS that WooCommerce uses to define the way products are displayed is then used by these WooCommerce themes.
Not to mention the fact that installing and setting up a new WooCommerce theme is not as complicated as installing regular themes.
How to install and configure a new WooCommerce theme
If you already have WooCommerce installed, then all the better! Otherwise, I recommend our tutorial on installation and configuration of WooCommerce. This will introduce you to WooCommerce and guide you through all the steps necessary to create your online store.
Now we will learn how to install a WooCommerce theme
Step 1: Install the dummy data
If you have already added your WooCommerce products, I recommend skipping this step and going to step 2.
Installing dummy data adds dummy products to your online store, which will help you visualize your store with products. After you have finished installing and configuring your new WooCommerce theme, you will need to remove all dummy data before adding your products. Otherwise, you risk accidentally deleting your own products.
All you have to do is use the import tool, available in your menu Tools On your WordPress dashboard.
If you have not imported the tool yet, you will need to install the tool.
Once installed, activate the plugin. You will then go to a page where you will have to choose the "dummy-data.xml" file containing the dummy products.
This file is located in the directory " dummy-data In the WooCommerce folder where WordPress saves all plugins to know " wp-content/plugins ».
After installing the data you will be able to have a demo of a shop with some products and comments on your blog.
If this is the case at home, then congratulations, you have managed to configure the demo data of WooCommerce on your shop.
Step 2: Install your WooCommerce theme
Now, let's look at installing a WooCommerce theme. If you haven't uploaded it to your blog yet, you need to. We showed you in a tutorial how to install a WordPress theme. But you have to keep in mind that all WordPress themes are not compatible with WooCommerce. I recommend that you do A choice on Themeforest. You will find several themes that will probably meet your needs.
We also grouped a set of eCommerce themes, which will get you started quickly.
In most cases, if you buy a theme compatible with multiple plugins, you will be asked to install them. However, you only need to install plugins if you think they will be useful.
You probably remember our discussion of the maximum number of plugins you can install on your WordPress blog. We remember that one must install, but especially activated a plugin that when used.
The installation of essential plugins will be preliminary. Each theme will propose you (in principle) a guide that will help you make the first setups. But expect to have most of the configurations in the customizer.
Sometimes the theme you choose will not always have all the features you are looking for. You will also need to search both CodeCanyon and WordPress.org.
Conclusion
The installation of WordPress theme is quite simple. The most difficult often lies in the choice of theme (since Themeforest themes are relatively expensive), in the configuration, because if a demo can be interesting, it may not give you all the options you are looking for. In this case, you will probably have need to know what to do to choose a good WordPress theme. This tutorial also applies to WooCommerce themes.
