Download a Free Magento Theme: HelloWired
Magento, an open source e-commerce web application, is often a good choice for an e-commerce website. The system is quite powerful and the community around the product is strong, making Magento one of the first options to consider when choosing an engine for your online shop. In this post we present our first Magento-release: a simple and beautiful HelloWired Magento Theme, designed by HelloThemes and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme features a clean white background with a simple navigation that will allow you to customize the colors very easily.
The homepage of the theme features many interactive elements. To the left of the newsletter sign-up box you’ll find a jQuery-based product slider. When navigating on a category page, the theme features polished “Add To Cart” buttons; it also integrates a lightbox for preview images of your products and e-commerce icons ready to be used. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use in all your projects.
Download the theme for free!
The theme is released under Creative Commons. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.
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- live demo (server currently unavailable — it seems the server couldn’t manage the load…)
- documentation page
- download the theme (.zip, 0.78 Mb)
- download the PSD (.zip, 5.3 Mb)
Preview images
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Promo blocks on the front page of the theme
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Multi-level drop-down navigation menu
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Thank you, guys! We appreciate your work and your good intentions.
Rev. Benjamin
June 3rd, 2010 1:39 pmGreat theme, good work and thank you for releasing under cc!!
Ian
June 3rd, 2010 1:44 pmSweet.
Connor McCarra
June 3rd, 2010 2:09 pmThe demo link doesn’t work. Here is the correct link:
http://www.hellothemes.com/demo/?theme=hellowired
*Nevermind*
Shweta
June 3rd, 2010 2:19 pmsuper cool… sleek and simple.
Yuwono
June 3rd, 2010 2:25 pmGreat magento theme, love it.
Muad
June 3rd, 2010 2:52 pmSplendid work! Far too creative =D
Bryce Wisekal
June 3rd, 2010 3:02 pmAbsolutely beautiful!
Jean-Francois Monfette
June 3rd, 2010 3:57 pmThis is a beautiful theme ! I wish I had something to sell to use it :)
James
June 3rd, 2010 4:05 pmCool, nice theme. I tried out Magento in the beta days and it needed quite the server to load quickly. Anyone know if this is still the case?
Razer Maharjan
June 3rd, 2010 7:31 pmohh that great themes. Thanks for sharing
kozeyar
June 3rd, 2010 8:00 pmabout time!
you guys can read the audience’ mind especially mine.
Cheers!
Max Black
June 3rd, 2010 8:36 pmI don’t use Magento but the design is lovely. Think I’ll download it and revamp it for use as a straight-up HTML/CSS design — it’s too cool not to use. Thanks!
Eduárd
June 3rd, 2010 9:37 pmI have one question: what is the purpose of so many (16, if ie more than 16) script tags in the head?
Jagat
June 3rd, 2010 9:53 pmThanks A Lot. Excellent Work.
Marco
June 3rd, 2010 10:34 pmThe way I understand it, in the Magento enviroment it is actually very hard to modify anything out of the ordinary or standard and you need the help of payed Magento programmers.
In finding a good ecommerce solution I read a lot of complaints on their (and others’) forum about the code and the way it was implemented. This help from the Magento-programmers was thought to be the Magento business model. Can anyone comment?
consultantnomo
June 3rd, 2010 10:47 pmJames, Magento has come a long way from the beta days. The speed comes down to your site host, cache management, and some work within the htaccess file. My sites running Magento load very, very quickly. Most of my sites load in less than 1.4 seconds.
Nice looking theme. Haven’t looked through the code yet, but I hope it’s better than some of the other Hello Themes I’ve experienced. Especially their support…which is, shall we say, “lacking”.
Mehrdad
June 9th, 2010 2:27 amDear Consultantnomo , hi
im looking for an ecommerce (shopingcart) .
is magneto SIMPLE to use?
Now im trying PRESTA , but I think ( heard )that magneto is MOST POWERFULL FREE ecommerce solution.
Can u send me the links of you magneto websites?
Can I easily add paypal to it ?
thanks
Tomáš Kapler
June 3rd, 2010 11:42 pmthe .zip file does not contain the /instructions and /static-blocks folders needed for proper setup as per video. Can you send them
Just trying to set this up on http://www.darkyluxus.cz and it seems very nice
Tricky
July 6th, 2010 10:24 amInstalled the template, but have problems with CSS the default…
My Account
My Wishlist
My Cart
Log In
This is vertical but should be a horizontal menu as per demo – how can i change this, and where is the CSS styling to change it please ??
I see you have fixed it on your demo.. this is urgent.
Regards
Craig Fleming
June 4th, 2010 12:43 amVery nice free theme, but is it 1.4.0 compatible?
Daniel Winnard
June 4th, 2010 1:00 amGreat theme. Thanks!
Tomáš Kapler
June 4th, 2010 2:05 amso instructions and static-blocks can be found at http://www.hellothemes.com/support/documentation/hellowired-documentation/ (second tab) – it seems it has been actualised, the video on the first tab shows completely different static-blocks, so more important is that second-tab
Tim
June 4th, 2010 1:14 pmSo – where can you find the documentation about the static blocks etc. – I don’t find it on the offical page ?
Aaron Sananes
June 4th, 2010 2:25 amThanks guys! Hope you enjoy the theme!
Alex@macenko.com
June 4th, 2010 2:26 amThanks-Thanks! ))
abhi
June 4th, 2010 5:32 amExellent template… Please post more posts……
JC | Resrource Hive
June 4th, 2010 5:32 amReally nice looking theme….I really like the clean look. Posted this on my Free Resource Site @ resourcehive.com/2010/06/04/free-magento-theme-hellowired-smashing-magazine/
Ngodi
June 4th, 2010 8:31 amFor free??!!! :) Absolutely amazing. You guys are great. Keep the good work. Magento Rocks!
Oskinn
June 4th, 2010 8:56 amWoww !! Very nice theme !
julien
June 4th, 2010 9:15 amI love it !
Oskinn
June 4th, 2010 10:07 amDocs not found :/
Lukasz Bachur
June 4th, 2010 11:50 amDelicious, more free Magento templates like this. Like .psd here!
Paul
June 4th, 2010 4:50 pmThey have blocked/or moved the docs for the theme, I was viewing them yesterday
Joshua
June 4th, 2010 6:23 pmI really like the theme, but with the removal of the instructions I am starting to question this company. If there is a problem at least provide some kind of notice. A blank page is very unprofessional. Wondering if anyone has a copy of the instructions since the theme download only provides a link to their website.
Gopal Bhattacharjee
June 4th, 2010 8:06 pmCool, nice theme. Thanks!
jean L
June 4th, 2010 11:44 pmCool, great theme. Thanks !
Ken
June 4th, 2010 11:59 pmThis theme is useless without the setup instructions..
Official site documentation is blank.
Really hope someone can help out.
papas
June 5th, 2010 12:38 amfun
Ken
June 5th, 2010 12:51 amI have created a PDF doc with the instructions for setting up the theme on Magento. Hope it helps everyone looking to set it up.
http://bit.ly/cJJypy
Oskinn
June 5th, 2010 2:17 amThanks Ken !!!
Monie
June 5th, 2010 4:08 amHuh? Why should I pay to download the PDF? can you just make it free for download? After all this is a free theme..
Ken
June 5th, 2010 6:47 amHi Monie, you can download it as a free user. You don’t have to pay for it.
Joshua
June 5th, 2010 9:08 amThank you Ken for this. It does appear that the instructions are now on their site, but this will help greatly.
IPC Design Ltd
June 5th, 2010 4:18 amGreat looking theme, and from looking around, its pretty simple to alter the style as far as magento themes go!
Very sleek and classy… thumbs up!
Ivar
June 6th, 2010 10:47 amSome links explaining Magento’s theme file structure:
Magento website: http://www.magentocommerce.com/design_guide/articles/working-with-magento-themes
Video explanation of theme files: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm551N0_Kv4
Hope it will help for beginners ;)
Aaron Sananes
June 6th, 2010 11:56 pmThanks again guys! Show us your appreciation and follow us on Twitter @HelloThemes http://www.twitter.com/hellothemes/
Butan
June 7th, 2010 12:20 amThanks for this useful article.
Another source of free magento themes: http://www.mage-world.com/magento-themes/
Keep this thread going if you find any more free magento themes
Matt
June 8th, 2010 3:54 amReally nice theme guys.
Steph
June 8th, 2010 8:05 pmMissing stylesheet?
Irish Cheesehead
June 11th, 2010 4:31 pmAnyone else find Magento sites too busy? It’s not this theme, just Magento in general. Guess I’m used to smaller shops using things like WordPress plugins and such. I have no use for such a large shop. Still looks too cluttered to me, though.
Chris K.
June 13th, 2010 2:29 amNice theme. Thanks for sharing!
RodrigoJol
August 13th, 2010 10:41 pmAwesome theme!!
I didn’t knew magento, so asked uncle Google :D read about an hour and installed it!
After that, I spent about 3 hrs looking for a nice theme… until I remembered you all at SmasingMagazine XD
You guys have the very best of web in this site,
congrats and of course I will spread the word!
ccccl
August 25th, 2010 5:56 amhow do i change the color of the grey footer block background containing the copyright information?
Kitteeya
September 1st, 2010 5:15 amvery nice . but I have problem If I want change checkout menu in toplink to button checkout. What’s did I do? Thank you for this theme
Remark I want show layout this Checkout button : Items 0 : $0.00 What’s did I do it
Canh Toan
September 10th, 2010 1:26 amthanks but how do i show menu like demo ?
Jonathan
September 13th, 2010 2:47 pmHelloThemes is a naughty, naughty company… Don’t do any business with these guys, they are a fraud. They totally copied (word for word) the real Theme Designers MGNTO – see the entire story here – http://www.themes-mgnto.com/magento-blog/hellothemes-please-stop-stealing/
And, I don’t work for MGNTO, but I thought you should all be aware that HelloThemes is a HeckoCopyCat! – Just FYI… I only found this out after I checked up on both companies, I almost purchased a Theme from Hello Theme’s – and I’m glad I didn’t. I keep hearing horrible complaints about their customer service. Stay away, stay far away. It’s just bad luck to copy someone else’s work and pass it off as your own. What a bunch of…
Jasmine
September 27th, 2010 7:31 pmThat’s a really nice Magento theme. Great work! By the way, I have compiled a list of free Magento themes here http://www.100webhosting.com/top-10-free-magento-templates-for-ecommerce-sites/ you can come and have a look if you have a minute to spare.
Cheers!
vinh
October 1st, 2010 7:21 pmthere’s a little layout issue on the cart page. the “proceed to checkout” button is not laid out correctly. update cart.phtml line 129 to include and :
<li><?php echo $this->getChildHtml('methods') ?></li>gonna go pick items up that I threw across the room now.
cheers,
vinh
Ben
October 12th, 2010 3:19 pmvinh, can you explain exactly what you think needs to be changed? I just installed HelloWired and looked at line 129 in that file. The only difference is I have no tag. Is that what you meant?
Austin
October 22nd, 2010 1:56 pmI had to fix it by going into app/design/frontend/base/default/template/checkout/onepage/links.phtml (this isn’t in the template directory, and it’s probably not the best way to fix this issue ). Add li tags there.
Henlow
November 30th, 2010 7:01 amVinh, I noticed exactly the same problem. I have been trying to identify if it’s a problem in the code or css as a result of upgrading from 1.4 to 1.4.1.1. Did you find a fix or possible cause for the problem?
I have installed the Hellowired theme into another site with 1.4.1.1 fresh out of the box and everything looks correct. I am wondering what these ‘methods’ are calling, code or sql data? Who knows.
Now how about some lovely links to show how to recreate the wheel…
Lovely stuff!!!
Peter
October 4th, 2010 5:34 pmI just want to send a warning to anyone thinking about using the company SIlk Software (www.silksoftware.com) for any work at all or using this theme.
Contacting Hello Themes they put me onto this company to do the install and boy what a mistake that was.
Once installed it never worked and if you have any issues they will not help you – or they will charge excessive fees to fix any issues.
I paid Silksoftware.com to install the theme ($150) and only changed images on the site myself. I had it setup on a demo server and then requested they move it to live (same DB on same server, so all that needed hanging was URL’s in DB and clearing cache) They then requested a further $500 to do this simple task. I guess they trap a lot of non technical people this way.
Since going live the site has never worked (no one can order anything and it has 100% to do with the theme not working with the Magento release they installed it with (I have tested it and it works with default theme)
Silksoftware.com also want to charge excessive fees for fixing any of their own theme issues. Even then, they never actually get around to fixing it. Once it gets too hard for them they ignore messages continually.
They continually ignore messages and emails requesting (even offering paid) help. So do yourself a favor and get a professional company to help you.
There are many messages on here warning people about their ( silksoftware.com ) practices and this also another warning. Rude, and incompetent best sums Silksoftware.com up.
This whole process has been so frustrating, just a little courtesy and empathy from them would have gone a long way. Once a complaint is given they just basically wipe their hands of it.
I own a little software company and if something goes wrong for a client we fix it for free.
So install this theme at your own peril and do not under any circumstances deal with Silk Software or Hello Themes.
Regards Peter
Gayalal
October 8th, 2010 1:35 amNot show the category in top list, how can we show it ??
Alexander Stepanets
October 19th, 2010 3:40 pmVery nice looking theme, thank you for sharing it! :)
ayman
November 7th, 2010 1:51 amthank you for sharing it
Nikola
November 7th, 2010 7:08 amThank you. Great theme.
derek
December 24th, 2010 10:49 amPeter, if you are still stuck with this theme, let me know, I can help you.
If you are running magento 1.4.2 (which I am) you need to make a number of changes to the theme to make it work, especially if you are using credit cards.
If it is something basic I can tell you what to do, if you need help fixing, I can do it for $50, at most.
Hope that helps. just submit a support ticket at my site… http://support.abirdd.com
Felipe
February 1st, 2011 11:29 amHello Derek, i need help with this theme. I made some changes in the whishlist.xml for make it work, but some action buttons don’t work yet. Can you tell me what to do? Thank you!
CueBlocks
January 4th, 2011 8:23 pmWe’ve developed an extension (key:- magento-community/CueBlocks_Zoom ) which seems to be working with all themes except yours. We’ve identified that the following file seems to be conflicting: skin/frontend/default/hellowired/js/jquery.latest.js.
If we remove this file, the zoom function works fine. Please let us know what you are using this file for and if there is a way we can resolve this? Thanks in advance.
Ruud
February 23rd, 2011 9:54 amSorry guys, where can I find documentation?
I saw only video but this theme without doc is really useless.
Tate
April 20th, 2011 1:06 amI installed the theme but have issues with the home page product sliders. can somebody please assist me. My site is here: http://printhub.co.za/
Cait
May 18th, 2011 6:47 pmI am having the same problem. It looks like you have it figured out. When I look at my site’s source code online it looks like the JS is not kicking in for the large images on the homepage. What did you change?? My site is http://www.naturesflax.com/
Cait
May 19th, 2011 8:06 amLooks like I missed step 3 on the “how to install” instructions listed here: http://www.hellothemes.com/uncategorized/how-to-install-theme/
Simple as that!
Max
April 23rd, 2011 7:52 amHave found only one problem with WIRED scheme on the pages with custom option fields:
Fatal error: Call to a member function setTemplate() on a non-object in /home/sites/magento/web/app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/View/Options.php on line 173
Magento try to get catalog/product/view/options/type/select.phtml which doesn’t exist in
/home/sites/magento/web/app/design/frontend/default/hellowired/template/…
Max
Alexandra
May 17th, 2011 2:34 amIs this theme compatible with the latest magento installation? I’m running Magento ver. 1.5.1.0 – and on some page loads get an internal server error 500.
Anybody else getting the same problem?
abdu
May 23rd, 2011 11:54 pmeverything ok with hellowire theme, only problem is i can’t see “Place order” button at the end or checkout page, so unable to compelete the order.
Anyone of you face this issue?
thanks
Abdu
pavel
September 8th, 2011 5:35 amHi abdu. I have too same problem with magento hellowired theme. I can’t see place order button…
Gloopy
October 21st, 2011 10:34 amI take it you have disabled the cache ???
Srikanth Thandra
September 10th, 2011 1:38 amHI,
The theme is great I need small help in the product page how to the extra tabs like “We also recommend ” & “Additional Information”. Can I put attributes in additional information and use them for filter-ration. Please let me know how can I do that.
ndlinh
September 14th, 2011 7:28 pmGreat theme. thanks.
shailesh
October 4th, 2011 10:51 pmgood.. one
FMK
December 5th, 2011 10:58 pmhello!
Somebody~ Would you please how to install this theme to Magento?
PLEASE
jean linux
January 20th, 2012 8:39 amThere is a problem with this theme. is you check it with internet explorer 8 or 7, thwarting whole slider on the homepage shifts to the far right outside the html border which is pretty bad. i hope hellothemes are able to fix this issue. Im using the latest version with magento version 1.6.1.
Michael
February 3rd, 2012 1:37 pmThe same here man! The slider makes the whole page white. And the featured part shows the first 2 products on top of eachother
Tony Lees
February 6th, 2012 7:26 pmHi, I have installed the theme on Magento 1.6.2 works great EXCEPT the slider, does any one know how to get this working?
Thanks
Tony
Tony Lees
February 7th, 2012 11:31 pmHi,
I finally got this working… sort of! there was a missing ‘r’ at the end of the block id!
But now ast the images fade the rest of the page fades as well arghhhhhh
Someone PLEASE HELP! lol
Thanks
Tony
Jack
February 8th, 2012 4:32 amI’m having the same issue with Internet Explorer 7, 8 and 9. Everything after the slider fades slowly and then comes back in a 5 second cycle