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August 7, 2013 at 11:12 am #54603SuzannahRMember
Do you have any ecommerce themes? What do you recommend for integrating ecommerce onto a studiopress or wordpress site? Thank you.
http://www.raffbusiness.comAugust 7, 2013 at 11:24 am #54611WilliamMemberThe Agency theme is an ecommerce theme. Also, check out ZigZagPress for a few more ecommerce options.
–William
http://williambeem.comAugust 7, 2013 at 2:04 pm #54679AnitaKeymasterThe Clipcart Genesis Child theme is an eCommerce theme that works with the Cart66 plugin - http://my.studiopress.com/themes/clipcart/. Mompreneur is also an eCommerce child theme that works with WooCommerce - http://my.studiopress.com/themes/mompreneur/.
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August 7, 2013 at 2:37 pm #54692SuzannahRMemberThank you these are all really nice themes. If i have an existing wordpress site can I add woo to it, even if its a studiopress theme?
August 7, 2013 at 2:39 pm #54693AnitaKeymasterYes, you would need to install WooCommerce and an additional plugin called Genesis Connect for WooCommerce - http://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-connect-woocommerce/. Keep in mind that even with these, you could still run into some styling issues, so it's important to read all of the documentation for both products.
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August 7, 2013 at 4:10 pm #54735SpankaMemberAgency looks nice. I'll try and provide some general advice on WHAT you should be looking for and WHY. I'm a guy who:
a) Develops websites for clients
b) Does heavy SEO work
c) Has his own very successful retail business (and recently spend almost AUD$10k on some very heavy conversion and click through auditing)This is stuff I'm good at and a lot of sites get it wrong. Hell, I got it wrong for a while and it took me weeks to slowly correct over time on a single site! Here's some things you should check:
1) Always get a responsive template and check it on 3-5 different screen sizes every step of the way during development. Mobile purchasing accounts for 10-20% of all sales and it needs to be good. Not just "ok", GOOD!
2) Always get LESS in your theme. Less lines/shades/fancy bits/junk. Less less less. Right now, I'd use the sample genesis child theme if it were me, but that's probably a lot of extra work for most folks. Less = more because going from 3s load time to 4s load time = ~20% or so customer loss. Save that load time for bigger pictures which nets a huge ++ gain on sales.
3) Sounds silly, but get a theme with really nice buttons and form elements if you can! 3d/glossy/animated - whatever. Just make sure those form elements look *great*. Makes a big difference.
4) If it's not very light colored/white, don't touch it. You'll know what I mean when you work with images.
Also - not theme related - make sure you can build tiered navigation. Google tiered navigation seo or seo navigation structure if this is a foreign concept (I think it is to many WP'ers, because I found ONE plugin that does it well - WP Nav Plus by Matt Keys).
Not only is it great for SEO, it allows you to control what pages are most important within your site to Google *and* customers love it. They don't love (or really use) the mega menu style stuff once they're hip deep in deals and buy now buttons.
August 7, 2013 at 6:15 pm #54765SuzannahRMemberThanks for all of the helpful information everyone!.
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