We have researched and reviewed all currently available solutions that help you create a WordPress based ecommerce site. There are total of 30 themes and plugins reviewed and we want to keep this the most comprehensive review of WordPress ecommerce solutions.

The article is split in two parts. The first part of the article deals with WordPress e-commerce themes (19 in total) and the second one with ecommerce plugins (11 total).

WordPress E-Commerce Themes

1) Templatic

The Store template is a great ecommerce WordPress theme, with a really good-looking and functional interface; it’s easy-to install and maintain with accessible backend administration. The theme’s creators are available for pre-sales questions and customer support.

2) E-Commerce Theme

This is a very popular theme enabling users to set up and manage effective ecommerce stores. The theme is search engine optimized and customizable so can be adapted to suit any home-based business niche.

3) AppCloud e-commerce theme

AppCloud is a beautifully clean and professional looking theme, with a two-column layout, integrated slideshow and the choice of horizontal or vertical orientation for images and apps. The theme’s ecommerce features include featured, top-selling and categorized product lists.

4) e-Shop Theme

This theme offers extreme ease of use for both sellers and customers, simple to configure with an intuitive and crisply designed interface. The template has powerful features and can be tweaked to suit any product.

5) Wp Store

Sellers can establish an online store from scratch with this theme, showcasing products and with easy payments, shipping and stock management.

6) Auction Theme

This premium WordPress theme offers users the chance to create an online auction or reverse auction website. Whether its cars or bikes, books or antiques, once the easy-to-use theme is setup traders can auction any kind of property online.

7) Market Theme

Market Theme transforms any WordPress into a fully operational online store. In its default setup the theme has the look and feel of a regular blog, but there are many options to customise the design including the choice of a grid-view shop front to showcase products.

8) KidZone

This bright and friendly theme is a great way to present products aimed at children and, more importantly, their parents. The colourful and functional shop front is supported with backend administration and all the necessary ecommerce features.

9) StorePress

This premium theme allows sellers to transform WordPress blogs into accessible online stores with a sleek and professional aesthetic. The design has widget-ready pages, PayPal integration and a solid range of ecommerce tools.

10) eGoods

eGoods is aimed at traders who sell downloadable products and receive payment via PayPal. The theme options include a choice of light or dark colour scheme, both very visually appealing, and customisable layout for images and text. The design includes featured products, bestsellers, recent releases, reduced items and gift vouchers.

11) CMS Folio

The folioShop is aimed at sellers who want an attractive and intuitive interface in which to showcase products to be shipped out or downloaded by customers. The theme features an installation wizard, visual help guide and all layered PSD files.

12) Classic Press

ClassiPress is a professional theme for turning WordPress blogs into classified ads sites. The latest version of the theme features unlimited custom fields and forms, ad packages, blog option, directory-style homepage, email alerts, featured ads carousel, transaction logging and Twitter feed.

13) WpShop

This premium theme presents a great looking ecommerce store in a choice of light or dark colour schemes. The package includes all layered PSD files, installation wizard, help guide and is available in English and German languages.

14)Thematic

Thematic is a simple and great looking theme for sellers to present products in a gridded shop front, with a friendly wood effect background. The colour scheme can be switched and users may install their own images into the fully customisable design.

15) enViraShop

This theme requires no plugins and offers users all the tools needed to establish an ecommerce niche. The theme is fully customizable so sellers can tailor the perfect online storefront to cater to their target market.

16) TobaShop

Tobashop is integrated with another WordPress ecommerce theme, eShop, to make use of the powerful plugins in order to create an online store with a highly professional feel.

17) KingCart

The King Cart wordpress e commerce theme is a complete ready made solution for all your e commerce problems. This theme is nicely made with beautiful graphics as well as functionality so that you just have to install it.

18) StoreFront

This premium theme allows sellers to transform WordPress blogs into accessible online stores with a sleek and professional aesthetic. The design has widget-ready pages, PayPal integration and a solid range of ecommerce tools.

19) OScomm

The OScomm theme is a beautifully designer wordpress ecommerce theme that is not only easy to install, but also is very easy to run and implement owing to the fact that it has all the functions nicely built inside the admin interface.

WordPress E-Commerce Plugins

1) Instinct E-Commerce

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Instinct e-commerce is a very nice and fully featured ecommerce wordpress plugin. Although it is free to use but if you need more functionality and better layout, then you need to upgrade to their gold cart shop

2) QuickShop Plugin

QuickShop wordpress plugin for e-commerece adds a cart to your sidebar. The main advantage of this approach is that the shopping cart remains visible on all pages on the website.

3) e-Shop

This plugin is another popular version of wordpress ecommerce plugins. It’s pretty simple, straight forward and easy to use and implement.

5) WP Auctions Plugin

WP Auctions enables you to hold auctions on your own self hosted WordPress blog. You get to add, manage and edit as many auctions as you like and keep 100% of the profits generated. The only fees you’ll have to pay are any PayPal or bank transfer fees for accepting payments.

6) Wp Live-Shopping

This is an amazing plugin that allows listing of shopping offers while doing a live search simultaneously as users browse through your site. With many options to choose from, this e-commerce plugin is definitely worth a try.

7) Are PayPal

Paypal is the most widely used method for online shoping. Are PayPal simply lets you do business via paypal.
YAK Shopping Cart

YAK is a simple shopping cart plugin for WordPress, which associates every product with a unique id. Thus there is no mix up of products and everything can be carried out smoothly.

8) Easy Donation

If you want to display donation buttons inside your blogs without the need of playing with any kinds of codes, this plugin will be of great help.

9) ArtPal

ArtPal is a free (GPL) WordPress plugin, originally written for Artists, to seemlessly integrate PayPal with their WordPress blogs so that they can sell their work online.

10) Paypal Short Codes

This plugin allow to insert Paypal buttons in your posts or pages, just using a shortcode. This plugin doesn’t have a management panel at this time, you will need to edit paypal-shortcodes.php and follow the comments.

11) Shopp Plugin For E-Commerce

Shopp is an e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog. Get your store up and running in minutes. Then, take it to the next level with the flexibility of Shopp’s customization tools that allow production studios and power users to tailor every aspect of the shopping experience.

12) PHP Purchase

Compared to a product, PHPPurchase excels with a one page checkout. The ease of making a purchase on the Internet cannot be over emphasized. You can also sell digital files which is a popular feature that for years nobody seemed to figure out how to do.  In addition the software has the sophistication to configure a product item to solicit information from the customer.