Way too complicated for beginers

Hi @mythicab,

Very sorry to hear about your struggles, but everything you’re describing here is unrelated to OceanWP, so your review is providing false and inaccurate feedback that misguides and misleads.

OceanWP is really beginner friendly, there are hundreds and hundreds of user reviews right here to confirm that.

However, you cannot expect to build an eCommerce website, using WordPress, any theme (OceanWP in this case), WooCommerce and Elementor in a 2 days and in a blink of an eye without actually learning a thing or two about any of them. We have lots of documentation, videos and courses to help achieve this.

Learning WordPress doesn’t take time, but you have to do it.

You get a complicated control pannel, with a lot of on/off switches, and additional buy more tabs. No other eCommerce themes included.

That’s correct. You get a plugin that allows you to actually choose what features you’re going to use instead of leaving everything enabled and loading unnecessarily.

There are no multiple themes, there’s only one theme – OceanWP. Everything else is full site templates, which is sample content for WordPress and this is not specific to OceanWP.

We offer 2 premium options and each of them lists in full what exactly is included in them. With the eCommerce Pro plan you don’t get access to premium full site templates, but you get access to page and section templates which are related to the premium plan you chose and the plugin itself.

Deleting products from the sample theme will mess your menu.

That’s correct. When you delete WooCommerce products and categories that were added to the WordPress menu, your menu will “mess up” and remove those options. This is unrelated to OceanWP.

Reseting the theme and importing the menu again will duplicate all the entries.

It depends on how you reset options but this is unrelated to OceanWP.

If you haven’t deleted previous content, like menus, pages etc – yes, everything will duplicate itself if you import it again. It’s CONTENT, and that’s how WordPress functions, so again unrelated to OceanWP.

As you said, our team is very responsive. We’re also responsive to help you choose the correct premium plan in case everything on the website wasn’t clear enough.

You can ask our team to help you with the videos and tutorials, but you need to be the one going over them – not anyone else. Otherwise, no matter what option you choose to go with you will have the exact same “experience”, which in reality is unrelated to any product you’re using.

Best of luck

Hi Marko,

I’ve reviewed your feedback, my feedback and some more docs and I can still maintain my opinion: this is not friendly for new users.

You are admitting that deleting products from the eCommerce demo “Store” theme will mess the menu display. How come then this is not related to your theme? Also, trying to fix the menu, I’ve followed your instructions from page https://docs.oceanwp.org/article/728-how-to-switch-different-demo. I’ve reset the theme, Using the Cutomizer Reset option via your WP Dashboard, OceanWP > OceanWP Panel > Customizer > Customizer Reset. Then re-nabled the Store template. As a result, all the menus were duplicated. I’m trying to fix the menus that have invalid links (as products had been deleted) In personalization, menus, I have the menus listed as Invalid, but there is no way to point the menu to another product, only to remove the invalid entry. So IMHO this is strictly related to OceanWP.

For a beginner, you would expect that eCommerce bundle will give you some sample templates pages in elementor (like a sample layout for single product) to edit those layouts. But you have to start from zero. Description saids Templates Library (30+). Not sure where to find those.