SimpleCart(js), a Free WP E-commerce & Thematic Child Theme

Posted at 10:25 AM on July 17th, 2009

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SimpleCart(js) is a simple, attractive, and flexible WordPress theme that taps into the power of both Thematic and WP E-commerce. Features include AJAX cart functionality, a grid layout for products, and a flexible color scheme, easy to swap out images and completely customize the theme to your needs.

After putting this theme together for the WP E-commerce contest, I am happy to release the theme 100% free of charge. It is a port of the simpleCart(js) theme from the Wojo Group and was changed quite a bit due to its usage of Thematic and WP E-commerce, but I wanted to give credit to the creator, even if there are very few elements left from the original. One important note for this version, there is no link from the products on the homepage to the product info page, future versions will include one. Also, it should be fairly easy to add in there if you know what you’re doing.

Live Demo

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You will also need to grab a new WP E-commerce theme to be activated if you want your products to appear in a grid, similar to the demo.

Install

To install, you need to install the WP-Ecommerce plugin, add the WP E-commerce theme to that plugin’s themes directory, then install both Thematic and the normal SimpleCart(js) theme to your regular theme folder.

Configure

You will want to set the page ‘products-page’ as your homepage in WordPress. To do that, go to “Settings > Reading” and tick the radio button for ‘A Static Page’ and select the products page in that list, then save.

111 comments so far
  1. Nokadota says:

    Very nice. I don’t use WordPress [Expression Engine FTW!] but I know how to convert WP to EE.

    Thanks for this awesome theme though! I was thinking of making a store.

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  3. Zugvogel says:

    This is a really cute shopping cart template.
    I’ve looked the demo and tried to set the shoe size?
    Can you tell me if you support configurable products, too.

  4. Mandy says:

    A very simple easy to use shopping cart – can you let me know if you can configure the shipping process and payment details to suit your needs?

  5. The product details page has some issues: http://www.chris-wallace.com/simplecart/?category=1&product_id=8

    There are no direct links to the product details from the home page but when the user is checking out there is a link provided to each products detail page.

    Other than that its quite a beautiful presentation, cheers!

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  10. subbu says:

    Very nice theme. but there is a problem with e commerce plugin, when removing a item from cart the total cost is not updating by itself until update is clicked.
    Just wanted to let u know :)

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  12. looks great. I’ve been debating about switching to a wordpress e-commerce solution.

    I love the thematic framework.

    I too had the same issue as subbu where the total cost was not updated.

    Great work.

  13. juan says:

    Would be nice to have an option to view more about the product, more info and images
    thanks
    nice work

  14. Scott Webb says:

    I’d very much like to show this theme in use. I have it installed on a site I want to sell my photography on, but can’t for the life of me work out a link from the main products page to the product info in detail. Unless going through the checkout. Not sure why either, but my dollar figure isn’t looking like the demo either – ie the green product price, however it is looking good in the shopping card. http://www.nuwombstore.com is the website thus far as I try and work it out

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  16. Lawrence says:

    Does this require the WP-eCommerce ‘Gold Cart’ option in order to display a grid?

  17. yvey says:

    simplecart 2.0 is out of course.

    Have I missed something? The long long long awaited bugfix and feature add version 2 of simplecart has been out for a few weeks or so now.

    It resolves a lot of problems and looks very very cool feature-wise… anyone know if it’s been integrated into wordpress in any way yet? thank you!!

  18. Arron Davies says:

    This is awesome. spot on.

  19. Noor Karzon says:

    It’s really interesting work! Does anybody know if I can link the e-commerce system to my paypal account ?!

  20. Kate says:

    I have installed the WP-Ecommerce theme to that plugins’ themes directory but it does not show up under “Select Theme” in the plugins preferences. How am I supposed to activate it?

    Also, how do I get the products to display in grid view – do I need to buy the Gold Cart? If so you should say that in your configuration information.

  21. joe says:

    This is nice if it works! Too difficult to set up for anyone accept php master. I spend 12 hours and got nothing.

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