Zenshop free eCommerce WordPress Theme
Ecommerce wordpress themes are always in demand and almost all good ecommerce themes are paid themes. Thats why we bring you an all free ecommerce WordPress theme . This theme is designed to work with the Cart66 ecommerce plugin. There is a free version of this plugin available for free at Wp plugins site – Cart66 Lite . You can upgrade to a pro version of this plugin if you want. The Zenshop theme is designed with a minimalistic style with a grid layout to showcase your store. The supports WordPress 3 features like Custom post types, custom taxonomies, Custom metaboxes, Custom menus, Custom page templates etc. The theme also comes with an options page and user guide page. Once you download and install the theme you will be prompted to install the 2 required plugins
- Cart66 lite plugin
- wp-pagenavi plugin
Once installed and activated you can configure your Cart66 shop settings. You can refer the PDF manual that is available for the plugin Setting up the shop and listing the products for sale is actually a 2 step process. First you will have to add the product Name,its ID, price, variation options etc to the cart66 database. This is the backend process. Secondly to feature your product on the front end of the shop you will create a product post ( A custom post type) with the product image and other details. We will see how these are done step by step