WordPress theme or Woocommerce theme

  • We are building a website that will have both information (company, blog, product, etc.) and an e-commerce store. In the past, I have built the information part of my sites with a WordPress theme, and then paid a contractor to match that theme for the woocommerce pages.

    For my new site, I am considering basing everything on Woocommerce and one of their theme (maybe StoreFront).

    1. Can I use a Woocommerce theme to build my Company, About, Blog and in-depth product information pages?

    2. Would you recommend using a WordPress theme for everything?

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  • Hi there, you can use either kind of theme ?? using a general WordPress theme probably won’t integrate with WooCommerce very well though – you’ll need to do some custom work to achieve that.

    So if your store will be a big part of your site I recommend using Storefront.

    If you have any specific questions, let me know ??

    Thread Starter lshr

    (@lshr)

    Thanks James. Yes. On our last site, we used Vantage for Site Origin, but then we had to do custom work to make Woocommerce match Vantage. Don’t want to do that again.

    What do you think of Genesis and a Child them from Studio Press? It is $99, but everything seems to work together.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Are you sure you’re posting in the right place? You’ve posted in the support section for the Storefront theme, nor is any place on www.ads-software.com appropriate to discuss commercialware.

    Thread Starter lshr

    (@lshr)

    Sorry.

    Genesis has a WooCommerce connector plugin here on .org, but the integration won’t be as tight as it is in Storefront. With WooCommerce 2.3 around the corner I wouldn’t want to take any risks personally.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Unless you don’t want to do any customizing at all, I’d stay away from commercial themes installed as child themes. It can make some types of customizing quite difficult to do properly. Nothing against Studio Press or Genesis in general, a few theme publishers use this approach. As a coder who can’t leave anything alone, I just don’t like the child theme option taken away from me. WP does not support grandchild themes.

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