ALL 100% WooThemes compatible themes will work with Free & Pro without any integration. SOME theme developers have added extra menus and template tweaks so that they are prettier.

Themes with extra tweaks specifically for WC Vendors products:

– Marketica is advertised as 100% Pro and Free integrated now.

– “Next BOSS Theme” because it’s unnamed still, is 100% Pro and 100% Free integrated. This theme, based on my previews, will give you an etsy style marketplace with a ton of great beauty and integration. ETA 3-5 weeks or less.

– There’s more, I just cant remember them….. Post em here if you know em!

Themes that work very well 100%:

– Superstore is a great theme, too. Lightweight, good for marketplaces with a lot of products. Easy to scale.

– Storefront is good, lightweight, highly customizable, lots of child theme options, too. A bit ugly by default, but that’s where a good theme tweaker can have some fun.

– Avada — Nice theme. Pretty. Lots of options.

– Handystore – Has some quirks but overall a nice theme.

The shit pile: That means *avoid*. 😉

– Divi — Stay away from it. It’s junk. They even go as far as disabling standard HTML on pages so your plugins are guaranteed to break!

– Flatsome — Stay away from it. It’s worse than junk. It makes Divi look like an angel.

@had_hc — You can email Marketica Support – [email protected]. I’m not sure why the changes in Marketica are doing what they do, they have never sent us any evaluation copies of their theme and nor would we really test for them either, we have plugins to write. 🙂 Hope they can resolve them for you in short order.

A theme does not need to be specifically integrated with Pro, or Free, to work — all we require is a 100% WooCommerce compatible theme be used. It’s the theme authors choice to customize templates and things like that to improve the vendor, customer, and admin experience on the sites design. We do provide Pro (and Free) with a million filters, templates, and customizable options for anyone who wants to go nuts with it, and theme authors would be the ideal choice as well as third party plugin authors for extending Pro/Free in various ways. But of course, any customization a theme author does, we cant really have any say or anything with that, it’s their theme, not ours! 🙂 All you can do is contact their support channels and ask them to fix something if broken.

The issues with Divi and Flatsome (and a few others) are by the theme authors intentionally breaking things such as standard HTML in divi with their own javascript overriding things like HTML anchor tags. You’ll learn as time progresses that not all theme authors are equal. Some are exceptional. Some are crazy. And some never should be coding themes. You’ll come across all types! Which thankfully, this thread might help some folks get steered in the right direction if they read it. 😉

That’s weird for Bazar. No updates from Pro or Free should have any impact on a theme at all. They must have some goofy stuff hard coded into it somewhere. What problem are you seeing with Bazar?

Hi,

can anyone here comment with first-hand experience of WCVpro with Avada?
(1) Do all those pro-buttons, forms and texts inherit sensible styles?
(2) Is it possible to run the dashboard within sections of the Avada Pagebuilder?

I am currently using Oshine, but that fails on both (1) and (2) … It’s a great theme, but not when used with wcvendors pro…

J.

Thank you, that’s great news! I’ve gotten kind of used to Oshine.

Ahem, one question, now that 1.2 is out: how do us poor souls do the upgrade that are affected by the licensing problem/Wordpress bug?

Problems with Bazar –

Products are not being removed from inventory
NO emails at all are being sent – can’t even force them out with vendor notify button

I’ve deactivated all unnecessary plugins and deleted and reinstalled all WC and WCV plugins, still didn’t work. Switched to twenty fourteen and voila – everything’s fine so it has to be theme-related.

Bazar support sucks. I takes at least 24 hours for someone to respond and their first response is always “Did you update your theme?” Each time you answer your ticket automatically goes to the bottom of the pile and it takes another 24 hours for them to ask, “Have you deactivated plugins and tested?”

Finally got one of their techs to take a look at things and he stopped right in the middle of the fix because his shift was over. Told me I have to wait until he comes back to work tomorrow but I’ll be first on the list. Yeah, he’s ‘First On My List” too. The list of people who can just kiss my …!

He told me to enable WP Debugging on the site so I did. Then he said he was getting an error message because debugging was enabled. (smh!)

He did say he was seeing this on test orders: I get the error message from the website on checkout
SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data from woocommerce script

Bazar isn’t set up to update through the WP dash. Everything has to be done via FTP. No big deal but it might make a difference for some users.

OK, end of rant. I’m in the middle of paying commissions and changing my theme. Ya’ll have a great day!