{"id":5191,"date":"2020-12-24T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:01:03","slug":"top-things-to-consider-while-choosing-a-new-opencart-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/top-things-to-consider-while-choosing-a-new-opencart-theme","title":{"rendered":"Top Things to Consider While Choosing a New OpenCart Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/top-things-to-consider-while-choosing-a-new-opencart-theme\/#What_to_Consider_while_Choosing_a_Theme_for_Your_OpenCart_Store\" title=\"What to Consider while Choosing a Theme for Your OpenCart Store?\">What to Consider while Choosing a Theme for Your OpenCart Store?<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/top-things-to-consider-while-choosing-a-new-opencart-theme\/#Free_or_Paid_Theme\" title=\"Free or Paid Theme\">Free or Paid Theme<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/top-things-to-consider-while-choosing-a-new-opencart-theme\/#Lightweight_or_Heavy_Theme\" title=\"Lightweight or Heavy Theme\">Lightweight or Heavy Theme<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/top-things-to-consider-while-choosing-a-new-opencart-theme\/#Design\" title=\"Design\">Design<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/top-things-to-consider-while-choosing-a-new-opencart-theme\/#Mobile-Friendliness\" title=\"Mobile-Friendliness\">Mobile-Friendliness<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">OpenCart is a popular open-source ecommerce platform for online merchants. It offers a solid foundation to build a fully-functional online store. It comes with advanced set of features that gives you a total control over the customization of the store.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In addition to this, it also provides a large number of themes that are useful in the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/opencart-development\/\">Opencart development<\/a><\/span>. Building an attractive and feature-packed website becomes easy using these themes. But, it is often a challenging task to choose the best theme for your online store in the vast market of available themes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_to_Consider_while_Choosing_a_Theme_for_Your_OpenCart_Store\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #008000;\"><strong>What to Consider while Choosing a Theme for Your OpenCart Store?<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Below are the five things that you should consider while choosing an OpenCart theme:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Free_or_Paid_Theme\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\"><strong>Free or Paid Theme<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The first and the foremost step before selecting any OpenCart theme are to determine a budget. In general, OpenCart themes are not expensive. They are cheaper than other ecommerce platforms like Magento, Shopify, PrestaShop, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With paid themes, you will get a lot of features along with the free support. Opting for a paid theme will give you access to theme updates. The best thing is that these themes are future version compatible, which is useful when you decide to update your store.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lightweight_or_Heavy_Theme\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\"><strong>Lightweight or Heavy Theme<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Another important thing that you should think while choosing a theme is what theme do you actually want- lightweight, heavy-one, or a feature-rich.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Speed is one of the most vital things that decide the success of your store. Unlike light-weight themes, you can\u2019t expect fast speed from heavy themes. They have lots of features and functionalities which slow down the speed. Before getting any theme, you should ask yourself whether you need those features or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"\/blog\/top-opencart-security-tactics-that-you-should-know-about\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Top Opencart Security Tactics That You Should Know About<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Design\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\"><strong>Design<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Undeniably, a great theme design is vital for the success of your store. Here, design does not only imply beauty, but it is also about user experience and usage of themes. You should check whether your opted theme is user-friendly or not, so the users can find things easily in your store.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mobile-Friendliness\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\"><strong>Mobile-Friendliness<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Google has announced a mobile-friendly update in 2015. As per this update, Google has boosted the ranking of mobile-friendly pages. Although it is only related to mobile search results, it has become a necessity because mobile drives a huge share of ecommerce market. 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