Today sees the release of a new responsive WooCommerce theme called Emporium, equipped with all the homepage modules to showcase featured and recent shop products, recent blog posts, sticky notes, sales banners and a featured slider. Not to forget the widgetized footer region to add those personal touches.
Emporium’s uniqueness lies in it’s fixed top navigation that is always accessible even when at the bottom of a long page of content, with space for two menus – one top right and one bottom left, and also includes a cleanly designed shopping cart dropdown.
Similar to Argentum the theme adapts to the media device it is being viewed on, even the homepage slider will scale, like our Buro theme. That’s if you want to use it at all, you might prefer to have the prominent homepage real estate display featured products, or even have the blog and recent products right under the header space. All is possible with Emporium.
Clean monotones, brushed chrome and gun metal is the easy on the eye default color/texture palette, but dig around the alternate styles to see what else is achievable with the theme.
Let us know your constructive feedback, dive deeper into the theme in the demo, and read more about it on our Emporium theme listing page.
More extensions
Today we’ve got two new extensions available for your WooCommerce powered shop.
Visser Store Credit Extension
Michael Visser certainly knows a bit about WordPress e-commerce and develops extensions for various WP e-commerce plugins. We recently reached out to Michael to ask him to partner with in developing some kickass WooCommerce extensions.
Generate store credit coupons that enable customers to make multiple purchases until the total value specified is exhausted or the coupons life expires.
For example a $50 store credit voucher used at Checkout for a $30 purchase will allow for a future purchase of $20 or until the total value expires or is exhausted. You can even buy Products worth more than the remaining store credit and just pay the difference at Checkout.
View the Visser Store Credit extensionPayU Payment Gateway Extension
Developed by our very own Polish support ninja Daniel Dudzic this extension enables WooCommerce shop owners to use the Polish payment Gateway PayU (old Płatności.pl) on their checkout page and charge in Złoty. Hopefully enabling a heap more Polish shops.
View the PayU Payment Gateway ExtensionWooCommerce v1.2
Today also see’s the release of a new version of WooCommerce with a new “Best Sellers” widget, basic RSS feeds for products and product categories, further performance upgrades for ratings, the installer and WordPress multi-site and quick status change buttons (processing/complete) to the orders panel – to name but a few. See the full changelog here.
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Very nice again, little confused as to the policy on focussing too much of all these extensions for Payment gateways and NOT not an import /export extension. Many many people are waiting on this to move from another provider to yours 🙂
Again two cents 🙂
It’s coming. Don’t worry 🙂
We’re working on several things, some more complex / time consuming than others. As Mark said, don’t worry, it’s on it’s way 🙂
Great, thank you
@Jay Koster
Wow! Well designed WooCommerce Theme! The new extensions are extraordinary! 🙂
Thanks 🙂
Nice! Just curious – how long until Currents is out? 🙂
It’s next in line, so expect it very soon.
Awesome – thanks! Any chance it’s responsive 😉
I don’t have an official word, but this should ease your concerns right? 😛 – http://cl.ly/0w2F3r0F3A423o262V1R
Amen to that question. Cripes. I’m about ready to give up and move on.
Demo this baby because that fixed top menu is pretty hot!
Yes, I agree with Ronny, all the woocommerce is great, but, it’s too much, we also like to see a none sale themes, more than all those e-commercer site’s; they are great, but frankly, they all look the same!
Cheers!
The theme release schedule is the same as ever so expect a non-woocommerce theme soon 🙂
If you have any unique ideas for an eCommerce theme we’d love to hear them 🙂
How about a theme that allows individuals to login and sell items through your site, like a marketplace. I think this would be a game changer.
Great, Jay! Thanks for the quick response.
I see that all of the woocommerce themes have pretty much the same layout; how about not the same squares featuring products in the homepage, maybe a big slider with just one product in the home page, dunno, something more personal, try to dive more in too fresh design ideas…
Thanks again for listening to us!
Cheers and I’ll be waiting for the new regular themes.
Keep the good work
You can do that with emporium 🙂 just hide the featured products / recent posts via the theme options.
The designs will become more adventurous as we get a better idea of what the WooCommunity desires 🙂
ok Jay…. here we go.
You guys made extraordinary work with the custom posttypes und taxonomies in theme “Listings” as well as the impressive search functions. Great.
But this theme is hard to use for a normal page – the functions would be great to have in Canvas – as Canvas is so flexible in Design.
I am trying to figure out which theme to modify for a major project.
We would need the flexibility from Canvas, but also the custom posttypes and taxonomies and especially the wonderful search functions from Listings.
Do you plan to do something in this way?
Would it be possible to include some of the functions in Canvas?
I´ve asked already some Woo specialists when asking for assistance but the answere could not be found yet.
Here is a link what it should look like (except the navigation).
So you’re saying you want the functionality of Listings and the customisability of Canvas? The problem with a theme like that is that it would become ridiculously bloated and end up being a jack of all trades, master of none.
I can understand your point of view. But fact is that I have to decide which theme would fit best for our needs.
We would like to offer new clients to register their business in a category on front end and you should be able to search like in Listings, as there might be thousands of companies like flower stores, restaurants, Hotels,… you don´t want to show them all mixed up. Get´s confusing.
idea for woocommerce?
Sometimes you would need to offer a free product, but you also want to offer an upgrade in one piece.
Example (what I am searching for)
A customer can add his business contact to the page in a category. If he wants to upload further staff like his logo, weblink, pics, videolink…. he must pay a small ammount.
So the entry list would expand.
That sounds like a fairly custom job to be honest with you. You could achieve this with WooCommerce and some pretty hefty modifications. All the core aspects are there though. Perhaps discuss this with one of our affiliated Woo Workers? 🙂
just asked if this makes sense for you at woo. Upgrading is very comon online – to free some more options as you bought an add-on
I am working on an extension that would allow something like this. Look for something in the next few weeks. Contact me directly if you want more details.
Hyperlocal is where it’s at. We need a City/Community oriented theme. Newsblogs, multimedia galleries, robust event listings and PAID business directory listings. Think Geoplaces meets Currents.
Technically you can still use these themes as a great blog theme right? Set your blog page as your home page, still has the contact form page template and is responsive to boot. 😉
Just takes a little imagination.
In all seriousness, like mentioned, other types of themes are on their way!
Another master stroke with the Store Credit plugin, another nail in the coffin of Shopp Plugin.
Great work, keep it up!
Such a slick extenstion/plugin. Lots of ways to be creative with this I think. I remember using shopp for a weekend and should have asked for my money back 😛
a responsive theme that works with buddypress (and a facility for ecommerce) would suit me fine, any lined up?
looking good woo, great stuff
No BuddyPress integration just yet, but we have partnered with a BP developer to work on an upgrade to our Canvas BP child theme. We’ll then access this further.
As the community grows and grows, the theme released isn’t going to satisfy all. I don’t know if a new blog theme each month is always needed when a theme like Emporium (eCommerce focused sure) can easily be a blog as well and is so much more in a longer vision.
Coming from the Forums, I would say to go check out the amount of topics that are flowing in with customizing parts of WooCommerce and it’s adoption. It’s becoming really big and to ignore it would be silly.
As said, looking forward to the upcoming themes that are non-commerce specific.
Cheers!
great for e-commerce
Wow, this looks great!!!! Totally impressed! 🙂
Hi.
Just wondering what the 1 cm blank space to the right of the images in the Emporium slider is for? Can’t seem to get rid of it..
Hi Johnny, please send me a mail with more info (IE which browser you are using); jay[at]woocommerce.com and I’ll look into it. Doesn’t sound normal 😛
Looks nice, but I’m using zencart now
Hi there
You might want to check out the theme in IE 8, the main menu drop down does not work for me, also there is a gap of about 40px between the top menu and the main nav which is not the case in firefox & chrome
Was fine when we checked IE. Could you send me some more info to jay[at]woocommerce.com ?
Thx
The Store credit looks great. Could this be used some how for Gift Cards? Or is it Admin use only to assign a certain customer credit?
I have read the description but I wouldn’t know if this was possible.
For someone to buy someone else store credit would be great for a gift, resulting in a gift card.
Cheers
The demo site cannot scroll down on my iphone 4. Is it possible to make it viewable for smartphones?
Hi,
Just go directly to http://demo.woothemes.com/emporium/ on your iphone to scroll
Wow this looks great! I’m looking for a WooCommerce theme for my husband’s guitar store. This one with the wood veneer is SO music store, I love it! Although the slider is a bit massive. I’m glad that it can be disabled. Loving the new Store Credit extension as well.
More varying product store themes please! For example music store (both instruments and CDs), bakery supplies, vintage finds, SLR camera supplies, knitted goods, etc. Everything so far has been quite technology centric (games and tshirts fit perfectly as the products, but cupcake liners might seem strange on the cool toned layout). This one with the great wood grain and Coquette are the only 2 I see that have the type of personality that I could help appeal to a niche shop.
Will there be POS integration extensions in the future? He uses AIMsi which I’m having difficulty finding much support for. Fearing that he’ll just have to manually transfer the purchases from POS to online and vice versa.
Wow great new theme. I just working on a german translation of WooCommerce. The first Beta you can find here: http://www.passau-webdesign.com/2011/11/woocommerce-deutsche-sprachdatei/
http://demo.woothemes.com/wootique/ The Featured Products don’t display nicely using my iphone 4. Some of the featured products are not shown. It spills over to the right side of my phone’s screen and could not seen. Other than that the other stuffs are good.