Since 1995, April 23 is celebrated every year by UNESCO as “World Book and Copyright Day”. This date, dedicated to authors and book lovers, is not chosen at random. In fact, on this date we also commemorate the passing of Miguel Cervantes, William Shakespeare and the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.
On this day dedicated to books that are passed down from generation to generation, UNESCO and international organizations that represent publishers, booksellers and libraries choose a city to be called “World Book Capital”. In 2022, the Mexican city of Guadalajara was chosen as the winner. For the year 2023, it will be Accra, the capital of Ghana.
For this day that encourages authors and spreads the love of reading, we decided to look at five best wordpress themes for bookstore can inspire artisan bookstores:
1. "Kalium"
by Laborator
Thanks to the theme’s “bookstore” option, which offers a versatile WordPress and WooCommerce site design, you can create a perfect site in both visual and functional terms.
Using the WPBakery page builder, you can create beautiful pages even if you don’t know how to code.
Allowing you to create multilingual sites with the WPML multilingual plugin, the theme also offers full RTL support for right-to-left written languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Persian. Extensions like Revolution Slider and ACF Pro Book Filter and Product Filter for WooCommerce are the other bonuses of the theme offered at the time of purchase.
2. "Aurum"
by Laborator
The theme’s bookstore option makes it easy to create very practical and elegant shopping sites. This theme aims to provide your customers with a great shopping experience.
In addition to the WP Bakery, Layer Slider and Revolution Slider page builder, there is also WPLM and RTL support so you can design multilingual sites.
Aurum allows you to create a website adapted to the screens (responsive) of tablets, PC and mobiles, it also has a Retina-Ready function (i.e. an optimization function for HD screens).
The theme is very well documented and has been recently updated.
3. "Auteur"
by G5Theme
Auteur is a WordPress theme designed for authors, professional bloggers, reviewers, publishers and bookstores. The theme features a refined, fluid design and a simple and effective user interface.
It is well documented and recently updated. It has WPBakery Page Builder, Slider Revolution extensions, as well as several comprehensive shortcodes to simplify the process when creating premium sites. Note that it is also compatible with the Elementor plugin.
It is recommended if you want to have a site that is extremely pleasant to navigate, fast and suitable for SEO.
4. "Bookshelf"
by ThemeREX
BookShelf is an attractive bookstore WordPress theme. It can be a great solution for your modern online bookstore.
This theme is perfect for screen-friendly websites that sell multimedia products, such as audiobooks, e-books, music, movies, video games or microcourses. In addition, you can easily use BookShelf to sell both physical and downloadable items. You can reserve its pages for publishing houses, online courses, ebooks, your bestsellers, book clubs, authors or book/movie reviews.
You can build websites with the Elementor page builder and have an easy-to-use admin interface. Moreover, the theme is compatible with WooCommerce, and WPML.
5. ChapterOne
by Mikado-Themes
A theme designed for all modern bookstore and book publisher websites. It is well documented and ideal for creating websites suitable for different screens, including Retina screens.
The theme is compatible with WooCommerce and WPML, so you can create wonderful pages with WP Bakery. Slider Revolution is another great feature of this beautiful theme.
ChapterOne comes with six great ready-made and fully customizable demos, intended to showcase your content. It’s a pretty comprehensive theme with shortcodes, custom backgrounds, smooth scrolling and the option to share for social networks.
I wish all the readers many journeys with their books as well as a good browsing on the beautiful websites of online bookstores. ( Check also the article: UI/ UX Design)
We can’t end this article without a tribute to Marcel Proust:
