Free E-Commerce WordPress Theme: Balita
In this post we release yet another freebie: the Balita WordPress theme, a theme dedicated to shops that sell products for children. The theme was designed by Tokokoo and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use for both private and commerical projects.
Not many theme providers have produced e-commerce themes for baby and toddler products. For you who have been working in this particular market niche for some time or are about to start, this Balita e-commerce theme is a great opportunity for you. Using such bright and cheerful pantone colors that suit this clothes department (baby/toddler products), this Balita e-commerce theme will surely attract more and more customers to your online store.
Download the Theme for Free!
The theme is released under GPL. 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.
- Live Demo
- Large Preview (.jpg, 0,17 Mb)
- Download the .zip-package (zip, 16 Mb, including instructions)
Balita Theme: Features
- WordPress E-Commerce Plugin:
It will help you generate your e-commerce store on a WordPress platform. The Balita WordPress theme uses a powerful plugin to encourage the functionality of WordPress used. - jQuery Slider:
It helps potential customers to generate general information about your online store and its products at a quick glance. - Custom Shopping Cart:
The custom shopping cart notifies customers about the total amount of items and pricing within their shopping carts. - Product List With Grid View:
Customers can easily compare the general overview and price of the products. - HTML5 + CSS3 Optimized:
Latest tech weapons for the prime look of your online store. - Ads Banner:
Show off, promote, sell ads… anything! Each inch on your website is worth the attention. - Product Slider:
Our aim is to make e-Commerce as interesting and as profitable for you as possible. If you wish to have a vivid description for your product showcases, product slider will be a good match. - Zoomable Product Images:
Allow your customers to get a closer look at your product. Your customers want to see high-detailed pictures of your product when making purchase decisions. - Search Products:
It helps shoppers to find and buy products on your site without having to browse each and every page. You can place an input text form on the sidebar that allows shoppers to quickly and easily find your site. - Blog Integration:
This is a powerful tool on the Web to help build trust and provide updates for people who could be your potential clients. The theme already provides you with this feature — all you have to so is prepare the contents. - Related Products:
The idea of cross-selling basically means offering alternatives and additions to the current product which are considered. The most common way of doing this is by presenting within the site’s product details page, which is usually manually assigned. This may be known as the “Related Products” or “Similar Products” page, but might also be a manually assigned “Accessories” page or even more generic recommendations using the titles “May We Suggest” or “You May Also Like”. - Multiple Product Images:
Do you happen to have a lot images for particular products which you sell on your online store? No problem. This theme and its functions will help and let you upload multiple images at once for the products you sell. - Multiple Widget Areas:
You can place widgets on any suggested area. Otherwise, all of our themes support widget allocation almost anywhere, but not limited to the sidebar. - Facebook Page Integration:
This feature enables you to market your products through one of the biggest social networks around the world. Reach the highest sales potential with this Facebook integration feature.
Capture Left Side (Large Preview)
Right Nav Cart (Large Preview)
Single Add to Cart (Large Preview)
Single Preview (Large Preview)
Single Sidebar (Large Preview)
Behind the Design
As always, here are some insights from the designers:
“We designed the brand logo section as well as the navigation below to be very clear so that this theme looks neat and attractive. We made the single product page to look clean so users would concentrate more on products and thus is free of distractions. Contents are on the left side, while the add-to-cart button are on the right side, beside the contents.
Don’t miss the opportunity to get this free Balita Theme because there are not many ways you can get a free premium theme everyday. Last but not least, once again, thank you Smashing Magazine for the opportunity.”
Thank you, Tokokoo. We appreciate your work and your good intentions!
Varinder Pal Singh
March 31st, 2012 4:15 pmMany thanks for this great and informative post.
rachel
April 3rd, 2012 9:07 pmBalita doesn’t support product variations, the “add to cart” animation sticks, and related products are set at $0.00 when a product uses a variation.
How do we fix this?
I created a sandbox wordpress website with ONLY balita and ONLY wp-ecommerce activated, so it is not a conflicting plugin.
The “add to cart” animation displays correctly WITHOUT varitions, and “related products” are priced correctly WITHOUT variations.
Andy
May 10th, 2012 4:54 pmHow to configure the theme to display product links instead of blog post links for the thumbnail row just below the slider section?
kingmhar
July 6th, 2012 3:57 pmThank you for sharing this stuff!!
Shelby
July 13th, 2012 1:34 amI’ve downloaded the Balita theme multiple times, thinking that I had the problem, but it seems like it’s either WP or Balita. I am not able to unzip the file. I am not able to upload it through WP or my server. Does anyone know how to fix this? It’s so frustrating. Thanks.
Salena
September 11th, 2012 2:30 pmHi Shelby, you have to unzip the file that you downloaded from here and then you will find “BALITA PSD.zip”, “balita.zip”, & “doc” upload the “balita.zip” file to WordPress and then you are all set :).
manoj
July 16th, 2012 8:28 amthanks
surfer
August 22nd, 2012 7:54 pmI just downloaded balita, unzipped it and uploaded it to my vserver under themes of the worpress package. Do you please tell me how can I configure the balita unzipped package. Is there any german version of it?
thanks for your help!
Rudy
January 29th, 2013 8:52 pmI am setting up the checkout option, but it takes you to the checkout page with short code on it. How do I fix this?
Naomi
March 23rd, 2013 12:36 pmHi, I’m getting this error:
Shopping Cart
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpsc_cart_item_count() in /home/sodabooc/public_html/wp-content/themes/balita/header.php on line 78
Could someone please help?
Thanks, Naomi.
Fenixzin
April 7th, 2013 10:06 pmI have an error, I’m using the theme and settings getshopper balita with UPS, to send email from my purchase, the problem is that the total appears on 0
aylin
April 9th, 2013 9:45 amHi there I love the design and everytime I upload it into word press I am getting the following error:
Unpacking the package…
Installing the theme…
The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.
Theme install failed.
Could someone help?…
Sven Lennartz
April 9th, 2013 11:45 amhi aylin,
you have to unzip the file that you downloaded from here and then you will find “BALITA PSD.zip”, “balita.zip”, & “doc” upload the “balita.zip” file to WordPress and then you are all set.
pj
April 10th, 2013 12:38 pmHi,
me also facing the same error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wpsc_cart_item_count() in /home/sodabooc/public_html/wp-content/themes/balita/header.php on line 78
please revert asap
augusto
May 22nd, 2013 6:33 pmI guess you solved that problem, right?
To all who have this error, the solution is to install the plugin WP e-Commerce and nothing else.
LInk: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-e-commerce/
yudho
April 12th, 2013 11:02 amHi,
I got 4 lines error script in the above of add to cart button:
se_deactivate_buttons: 0
se_pinterest_description:
se_pinterest_url_image:
se_pinterest_url_page:
Could someone help on this?
Michael J. Williem
April 18th, 2013 6:52 pmNice theme.. Awesome to see Indonesian’s theme published here.. :)
Nancy
April 24th, 2013 12:28 amHi,
is it only will be one BLOG page when we upload balita themem to our wordpress?
How to make shop page all looks same as demo website shop page?
Could someone help on this?
Thanks
enano2054
April 26th, 2013 2:34 amThere is something really wrong with this theme. The only things I have downloaded are the theme and wp-ecommerce. There is nothing else activated and the layout is way out of wack.
JD
April 29th, 2013 2:22 pmHi, thanks so much for this lovely template. Can we please confirm that we can make any changes to the template we want? However, I’m assuming we are not allowed to remove the copyright logo on the bottom of the home screen?
Diki
May 10th, 2013 7:23 pmThanks for sharing…much appreciated.
augusto
May 22nd, 2013 10:05 pmIn the Menu Balita, submenu Theme options wp-admin/admin.php?page=tokokoo, I have a problem, on the form, I get a list of warnings:
Warning: Illegal string offset ‘title’ in /home/d1/htdocs/www/petrocable/wp-content/themes/balita/admin/admin-interface.php on line 1081
What’s the problem and the solution?