Storefront Pro for WordPress e-Commerce

Hi! Thanks a lot for your feedback — I saw this kind of placement a few times lately and decided to do so as well. I guess it’s just a personal preference but fortunately the source code is really clean and so it can be easily adjusted in numerous different ways via CSS .

Aside from that, you’re right, this theme is just for WP e-Commerce so far — I’ll see how it performs and will decide wether it makes sense to implement support for other WordPress e-commerce solutions later on.

For now however, WordPress e-Commerce seemed to be a very good solution to implement and I really enjoyed using it myself during the development process because it worked just fine and made it comparably easy to set up an e-commerce website with WordPress.

Thanks!

Well I have to admit that I didn’t use WP e-Commerce in a production environment with large amounts of products and customers, but during development itself, I didn’t notice any problems or oddities myself.

Uploading products, creating categories and setting up the store worked flawlessly for me. Woo is a great tool nevertheless — I evaluated WP e-Commerce, Woo and JigoShop before I made a decision which one to choose and while Woo seems to be the most polished and feature rich, I felt that WP e-Commerce will be a better fit initially because it allowed a very tight control about every aspect of the theme without too much unnecessary complexity which was important to me.

After all, if you’re already familiar with Woo and feel comfortable using it I don’t necessarily see a reason why you’d have to make a switch once again. In my opinion all of the three solutions evaluated and mentioned above got strengths and weaknesses here and there but overall any of them felt solid and usable.

Hope I could help you at least a bit — please feel free to ask even more specific questions regarding commonly known WP e-Commerce issues and I’ll try to check them myself to see wether they still exist or not.

Max

Thanks a lot — glad you like it!

Thanks a lot!

Yes, this will work just fine — the entire theme is as dynamic as it could be and there are also no hard coded areas such as specific author information which couldn’t be changed through the theme options dynamically on a per site basis.

The WP e-Commerce plugin seems to support multi site environments as well for a while now and after performing a quick multisite test myself using the Storefront Pro for WordPress theme I didn’t notice any problems.

Hello,

first of all, I’d like to thank you very much for your message and your interest in general — both is much appreciated and I’ll try to answer to each of your questions right below if you don’t mind:

1.) Yes, this will be possible — however, the theme uses a rather unique way to display multiple images as they won’t show up in some kind of modal or popup window but in the top slideshow itself directly. Please note: The WP e-Commerce plugin which has been used by default just provides the option to display and add one product image per item and you’ll need the additional Gold Cart plugin they offer on the website directly which basically unlocks a few more options then.

2.) I’m sorry, but I unfortunately didn’t understand what you meant here.

3.) By default, the WP e-Commerce plugin will be shipped with a latest products widget but without a widget which dynamically displays the top products unfortunately. It might be possible that something like this is available as an extension on http://getshopped.org but I can’t say this for sure. There are ways however to highlight important products in several features product areas on top, at the bottom and within the sidebar manually though.

4.) No, a feature like this isn’t available as it isn’t supported by the e-commerce plugin unfortunately.

5.) Yes, product tags are supported as well as filtering by price ranges which can be quite useful as well. You can also display the product tag links directly in the sidebar — there’s a widget available which does that for you automatically.

6.) Sure, the WP e-Commerce plugin offers various different things you can add to each product in order to describe it in a suitable way — a normal and an extended description area are included as well of course.

7.) Yes, you can define an infinite amount of product variations such as colors, sizes, materials, etc. and users will be able to select what they would like to receive accordingly then. Furthermore, you can also specify a stock limit for each of those variations which can be quite useful as well.

8.) I guess you mean if there’s some kind of color picker available so customers can pick a color instead of using a normal drop down menu, right? In this case, something like that isn’t available unfortunately because it’s a quite unique request and a generic e-commerce platform and theme wouldn’t be able to handle that out of the box. However, you could surely define multiple color variations easily just like I already mentioned in no. 7.

9.) Yes, the theme makes use of all common WordPress functions and so you’re just limited by WordPress itself and the SEO plugins available for the CMS . Aside from that, you can also add custom meta information to each product you’ll add which might be even useful and efficient to drive more traffic to the product pages.

10.) Yes, you can add any product to one or more categories at the same time.

11.) No, as far as I can see, WP e-Commerce doesn’t seem to support this by default — it might be possible to add it in a small custom project later on if it should be critical, but by default it doesn’t seem to be there unfortunately.

12.) By default, this isn’t a feature which comes with WP e-Commerce but you might be able to find a suitable third party add-on directly at http://getshopped.org/fpt-plugins

13.) Particularly — you will be able to easily offer product filtering by price range and tags which could be quite useful so far. However, there are no further widgets available to filter products dynamically out of the box.

14.) Yes, it is possible to make the product overview page your websites homepage and so also display products in there accordingly.

15.) It won’t be possible to handle this directly but you could create a “Sales” category, add discounted products to it and make it your websites homepage in the WordPress settings. This way, the homepage would just display discounted products accordingly.

I hope I could answer to all of your questions in a transparent and meaningful way in order to be able to help you making a decision. It is not my intention to sell a theme to you which might not be perfectly suitable for the purposes you’re aiming at and so I tried to evaluate each aspect as good and careful as I could even though I noticed that at least some of the features you mentioned are not supported by the WP e-Commerce plugin I’ve been using to build this theme around.

Anyway, I really hope I could help you and remain available in case there’s anything else you’d like to know.

Max

Hi,

I just enabled shipping on the demo site and it seems to work just fine as far as I can see so I assume you’re using a third party plugin integrated into the system, right?

Please send me an email to hello@indiqo.eu and I’ll surely have a look into it for you. Please note though that you should need to send this email to me through my profile page here on ThemeForest so I can verify that you purchased the theme which will be a requirement for any kind of support of course.

I’ll be looking forward to your email then and I’m sure that we’ll be able to find a solution together quickly.

Max

Perfect! I’ll be looking forward to it then!

Thank you very much for your feedback!

Unfortunately I can’t contact you myself because I couldn’t see a contact form on your ThemeForest profile nor do I know your e-mail address unfortunately.

Please send me an email to hello@indiqo.eu instead so I can see what I can do in order to help you out.

Thanks!

Max

Thanks a lot for your feedback — I’m glad if I could help.

Hello and thanks for your message!

I just had a quick look at your request and there are basically two things which might have happened:

1.) You tried to upload the wrong theme archive. Could you try to extract the contents of the package you’ve been trying to upload to WordPress and let me know exactly what you see there? If you tried to upload the correct package, it should just include a folder called “storefront” with template files, images and the style.css file. It might be possible that you tried to upload the complete archive you got from ThemeForest which also includes subfolders for the documentation and the PSD source file — uploading this file obviously won’t work.

2.) Your server doesn’t support extracting archives. This sometimes happens as well depending on the hosting company you’re using, but I assume that you really just attempted to upload the wrong file.

I’ll be looking forward to your answer and will remain available in case you need any further assistance at any time of course.

Max

Hello! Thanks for purchasing one of my items — it’s much appreciated!

Some of the functions and so also the options are just available for a third party WP e-Commerce plugin which is called Gold Cart and can be purchased from the WP e-Commerce website.

During the development of the theme I noticed that many people who use WP e-Commerce also use the Gold Cart plugin and so I decided to include support for that as well even though you obviously don’t need to use this plugin as well and a normal WP e-Commerce installation will do just fine.

Now that that should explain why you most likely don’t see the same options I’m not entirely sure if you still got an issue with the theme itself.

If you got a problem and need help, please feel free to send me an email to hello@indiqo.eu and I’ll have a closer look at this for you of course.

Max

Thanks for your message!

I’m currently answering to all of my emails this morning and — please correct me if I’m wrong — it seems as if you already sent one to me as well, right?

In this case, I’ll reply to you in a few minutes directly if you don’t mind — if this email isn’t yours, please feel free to send one to me at any time so I can go ahead and help you out.

Max

Thanks for your message!

Could you send me an email to hello@indiqo.eu with a link so I can have a look at this accordingly please?

Thanks!

Max