When designing your retail business’s website, it’s crucial that you have a design that intuitively addresses your customers’ needs. This will help you to maximize your exposure and increase the effectiveness of your site. Because WordPress is fairly flexible, more and more retail companies are choosing to host their website with them.

With that being said, there are hundreds of templates available, and each one resonates with a different audience. Which one is the best for your business? Are there some that respond better than others? Here is a list of just a few of the top WordPress templates available for retail websites. Since they’re easy to implement, you can change up your site whenever you feel like, so if something isn’t working for you, try something new!

Maya Shop

Maya shop is a beautiful, streamlined layout that puts the spotlight on your content. It makes use of the WooCommerce and Jigoshop plugins, which makes for a very versatile e-commerce shop. There is an unlimited amount of layout options and skins, so feel free to customize to your heart’s content. The background is completely black and the text is white, so everything stands out and really makes your content pop.

The Retailer

The Retailer is ideal if you have a website that deals in eyewear. The design is extremely responsive and can be accessed from anywhere, which is extremely important. In today’s workforce, many businesses are implementing BlackBerry BYOD solutions to increase productivity and become flexible to the needs of their employees. More websites should be designed for those with workplace mobile phones in mind since more devices are being used across the board. The layout is very user-friendly, and the columns can be customized to whatever you feel like. It supports three languages and includes multiple features, like zooming, dropdown menus, tooltips, and more.

Kiosk

This template is the very definition of minimalistic. It’s a single image slider. You can choose either a dark or a light template. It has a very user-friendly design, and it’s highly responsive. There’s a single menu at the top. The lack of anything extra on the page puts the focus on the image that you’re showing.

RoyalGold

This template is used to cover clothing needs. The template is very sleek and includes a menu that’s displayed on the left side of the page. There’s a ton of features crammed into this template, including a two column layout and an administration panel. It’s highly responsive and includes four languages.

Terra

Terra is an extremely flexible template designed for your retail needs. It’s highly responsive and can be used for multiple types of businesses. It has a Revolution slider, a page title, a footer, testimonials, and more. Codes and widgets can be easily implemented into this template.

Tucana

Tucana is extremely popular for retail use. It gives your site a fresh look along with an optional portfolio page template. It has an integrated slider and a highly responsive design. It puts your items in the spotlight by having descriptions on the left side of the page and the images on the right side of the page.

Food Recipes

Food Recipes works as both a food recipe template or just a business template, but it’s used mainly for blogging purposes. It’s build on the Joomla framework and has tons of customisation options available. The template has two columns and other display areas, like the header, the feature, the showcase, and more.

Hawaii

This template is used primarily for blogging and image galleries. It has a highly effective, responsive design. The administration panel helps you customise the webpage to fit your needs. The page is broken up into two sections, the top part being the header with the menu selections and the bottom part being your content.

No matter which template you go with, there’s one out there that will be a perfect fit for your content. Many of the sites allow you to customise your layout to match your content, so be sure to take advantage of that. Which layouts do you use?

Author Bio: Calvin Sellers is a mobile tech and social media writer from Tampa, FL.  He is a huge Blackberry fan.  Don’t let the hype fool you.  Follow him on Twitter @CalvinTheScribe.