Looking for the best Wordpress theme for a niche store? It shouldn’t be too hard to find something suitable if you look hard enough. This is the second installment in the “Create a Niche Store” series!
The first thing you have to learn is that “Quality Design is an Indicator of Credibility” (read point #3). You are looking for a design that is professional and that complements your products – not something that makes people think “this is a guy in his basement” (lol). Appearance is EVERYTHING.
Next, the focus is on the PRODUCTS. You’re not looking for a theme with a zillion sidebars of a 12 inch footer to add all kinds of banners, links, and what-not (all distractions!). It’s ok to monetize a site in more than one way – but keep it simple! You’re looking for clean professional designs that have mostly a single sidebar and enough for a list of a half dozen top level pages.
You might well find a good free theme – but be resigned to the fact that you might have to pay for one. You can pay a high end designer upwards of $1,000 for a custom Wordpress professional designed theme, but you might be surprised that you can get one for a little as $25 or $30 too.
Start your journey at the official Wordpress Theme Repository and browse the designs. You may find that none of them are well suited for niche store with products (but maybe you’ll get lucky).
Next peruse some of the countless Wordpress theme directories online. The best places to start is probably the Wordpress Directory of WP Themes. I happenned to find a decent theme to start with at EZWPThemes. It should work great for my Thomas toys site, but it will need a little customizing before it’s ready – especially in the header images. Here’s what it looks like so far:
Wordpress Toys Theme
You can’t see it here, but it has a cute toys on a bookshelf footer too!
Now then, there is one more way to go, and it’s one that I recommend to my clients when doing Wordpress Consulting for them. Visit Theme Forest. They have some of the most incredible themes you’ll ever see for Wordpress, and nearly all of them are $30 or less. Look for the ones with the most ratings and downloads. I have used plenty of free Wordpress themes (and still do), but some of the most incredible theme designs I have of some of my WP powered sites are ones I got from Theme Forest. In the next installment, we’ll talk about how to set up that Wordpress theme for a niche store!
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