Shoppest – Responsive WooCommerce WordPress Theme Overview
Shoppest – Responsive WooCommerce WordPress Theme is a general-purpose online store theme built on the Twitter Bootstrap framework. It aims for a clean, uncluttered storefront that is simple to adjust, with a theme options panel, unlimited colour choices and Google Fonts support for matching your brand.
The theme comes from eye-themes on ThemeForest and ships with two companion plugins: Sama Bootstrap Shortcodes, which provides layout building blocks for pages, and Shoppest Post Type, which powers the homepage slider. The homepage is assembled from shortcodes, among them shop shortcodes that pull in best sellers, the newest arrivals or featured items, each with settings for item count, sort order and whether to display as a slider.
Shoppest has a long history. Its changelog shows years of updates to keep WooCommerce templates current, with the most recent entry dated April 2021. That makes it a proven but older option, best suited to a store owner who values a simple, conventional shop layout over the newest builder-driven design tools.
Key Features of Shoppest – Responsive WooCommerce WordPress Theme
- Responsive layout built on Twitter Bootstrap with HTML5 and CSS3
- Custom WooCommerce shortcodes for featured, recent and best-selling products, with slider display options
- Catalog mode for showing products without the purchase function
- List and grid views on the shop page and a slider for related products
- Six custom widgets, including a colour-based WooCommerce layered navigation widget and a tabbed posts widget
- Unlimited sidebars through the WooSidebars plugin
- Wishlist and compare functionality added through supported plugins
- Two blog styles, nine background patterns and a custom 404 page
- Theme options panel with unlimited colours, Google Fonts, custom logo and favicon
- WPML ready, translation ready with .po and .mo files, and child theme compatible
Who Shoppest – Responsive WooCommerce WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
Shoppest is a sensible match for small Canadian retailers that want a straightforward online shop: a gift store, a local clothing or home goods shop, or a specialty retailer moving its catalogue online for the first time. The shortcode-driven homepage makes it easy to feature best sellers and new arrivals, and catalog mode helps businesses that want to show products before they are ready to sell online.
Because it is WPML ready and translation ready, it can support a bilingual English and French storefront. It is less suited to brands that want elaborate, editorial-style page design, since it does not include a modern visual page builder, but for a tidy, conventional store it covers the essentials.
Important Notes About Shoppest – Responsive WooCommerce WordPress Theme
This is an older theme built on Bootstrap 2.3.2, and its last listed update was in April 2021. Before committing, it is worth confirming compatibility with current WordPress, WooCommerce and PHP versions on a staging site. The vendor also moved the Redux theme options and CMB2 metaboxes out of the theme into separate plugins, and replaced its own layered navigation widget with a recommended YITH plugin.
The licence covers one website, and the preview images are not included in the download.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
You select and purchase the Shoppest licence, and AppiAppi handles installation on a staging copy first, checking compatibility with current WordPress and WooCommerce versions. We then apply your branding, set up the homepage shortcodes with your own featured products, and configure payments, shipping and taxes for a working store.
Once live, AppiAppi provides AI-assisted SEO and content support, uploads products, manages updates and compatibility checks, and helps respond to customer inquiries and orders. Ongoing management is scaled to the subscription plan you choose.
Original design by eye-themes. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source