Handmade WordPress Theme Review

Feature Details
Current Version 7.6
Release Date 2024.06.03
Theme Name Handmade
Purpose WooCommerce
Layout Well-structured
Demo Import One-click
Shortcodes 30+ Custom
Page Builder Visual Composer
Colors Unlimited
Slider Revolution Slider
Browsers IE 11+, Chrome
Devices iPhone, iPad, Android
Shop Layouts 5 Types 🛒
Project Layouts 3 Types
Blog Layouts 4+ Types
Home Pages 08
Admin Panel Redux Framework
Sidebar Unlimited
WooCommerce Ready
Mega Menu Customizable
RTL Support Coming soon
Header Styles Different
Scroll Smooth
Retina Ready Yes
Custom Post Formats Standard, Gallery
Responsive Yes 📱
Layout Boxed/Wide
Demo Import One Click
Portfolio Integration
Typography Advanced
Templates Custom Page
Parallax Image & Video
Theme Update One Click
WPML Plugin Compatible
Translation Ready Yes 🌐
Google Fonts 600+ Included
Font Icons Font Awesome
Coding HTML5, CSS3, LESS
Contact Form Contact Form 7
Custom CSS Advanced
Google Maps Yes
Cross Browser Compatibility
Child Theme Included
Support Online
Note Preview Only

Soothing Design and Configuration

Handmade is a WordPress WooCommerce Theme that is well designed and beautifully organized which makes it best for online shops and wholesale ecommerce. Its features include the advanced demo importer that requires a single click, multiple custom shortcodes, features for product filter widgets and also the integration of Visual Composer within the page builder. These concepts enhance the creation of an attractive ecommerce site by the users in a simple manner.

Diverse Volume Slider Options

Another key knock out feature of Handmade is the inclusion of Revolution Slider that allow the creation of slides with smooth transition effects. It helps in marketing products through providing an appeal to the items through usage of the slides and also gives short descriptions that can grab the attention of the users. Users have such flexible options in presenting the products as the theme is compatible with numerous slider layouts such as horizontal sliders, vertical sliders, small sliders and large sliders.

Various Configurations of Shops and Portfolio

In the case of shop layouts, Handmade consists of five of them including two columns, three columns, left side bar, right side bar and full width. For project presentations, they can opt for grid, masonry as well as single portfolio layouts with options for 3, 4 and 5 columns. These several layout options are especially taking into consideration the fact that the users will want to showcase their products and projects in the best possible way.

When we prepared the theme it’s clear that fancy text modules is very important for any blog. The functionality has templates like a grid or a narrow one with wider main images or square pictures published instead of writing long leaves boring paragraphs.

User-Oriented Functionalities

Some additional functionality of the theme includes demo with a one-click setup, options for creating flexible mega menus, additional header top including widgets area, and a variety of post formats. It also provides for advanced Custom CSS, Google Map and Contact Form 7 integration. The Redux Framework is utilized in the back of the theme which aids for good bureaucracy of the template.

Conclusion

Handmade responsive woocommerce is a delight packed full of features for the ever changing world of ecommerce. The elegant appearance, user-friendly editing options and support to range of gadgets and browsers makes it ideal for ecommerce site owners. Whether you are launching an online shop or a blog, this WordPress template is comprehensive and flexible enough to allow you build the most visually appealing sites.

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Thoughts on “Handmade WordPress Theme Review”

  1. First, there are way too many mandatory plugins to install to make it work. Second, updates don’t include composer and slider updates, so you need to buy 2 more licenses if you want to keep them updated and compatible with new versions of WordPress.

    They are very attentive and make all the changes we ask for in order to have a site that looks 100% like us.

    I started with 5 stars and I will finish on 2 stars. Now I know my theme and the support team behind it. You will have many compatibility problems with many plugins if you want to add some. The customizing of the theme is ok, but some features are so annoying. For example, you can’t edit the shop page without overriding the theme files. The English is not the first language of the support team, so the explanations given are a bit light. I had trouble managing the order of pictures in my category slider; the support found it was coming from a plugin I’m using, but instead of telling me, they just deactivated it, causing a huge mess because this plugin was useful. Too many troubles, unfortunately.

    Il met mon site en erreur… impossible à utiliser à cause de l’extension Handmade Framework. Je vais demander le remboursement si le problème n’est pas vite résolu…

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  2. Great theme, looks nice with lots of features, the support is excellent too, very quick to respond to any issues. Many customization features and integration with WooCommerce. The theme is highly customized and very difficult to use if you’re a beginner or advanced beginner. Documentation is a mess and non-user friendly, not written in fluent English, and doesn’t include specs on many elements. No documentation for using the actual pages included in the template. While it looks beautiful, I only recommend it if you have advanced knowledge of WP Admin, WPBakery Pagebuilder, etc. The mobile options are awesome and work just fine.

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  3. Very simple guide. With so many adjustments and settings with the theme it’s impossible to work. Instead of working on the site, you sit and think about how to turn on or off in one or another element of the page.

    Customer support second to none. Thank you so much for all your help 🙂 I recommend this theme, designer Tuyet Nhung, she is very easy to work with and has been very helpful throughout the whole process. Thanks again Tuyet!

    If you’re thinking about getting this theme and then turn it into an RTL theme – don’t even think about it. Buying this theme was a big mistake for my project.

    Very flexible theme. After I had figured out how to reach support they were very helpful. I wish the theme would be updated more regularly (woocommerce sends notifications). Nevertheless, it is a good theme and recommended. Keep up the good work!

    The support team is quite helpful in helping me modifying the theme further with CSS codes as I can’t do it myself for the lack of skills. If the Handmade team could make this theme integrated with Elementor page builder instead of Visual Composer I’d give this theme 5 stars. Visual Composer’s interface feels quite dated and doesn’t work as brilliantly as Elementor does.

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  4. This theme is really customizable and easy to play around with. Any developer looking for a nice, easy website, this is the one. Beautiful theme, excellent design, very helpful author. Highly recommended.

    Patchy customer support, a number of plugin incompatibilities. Support team initially refused support, left our commercial site for days with disabled plugins, and then refused to provide further assistance. Left with a message that the issue was ours to identify and resolve.

    I have tried many themes and I must say, this theme is better than many other themes out there. It’s simple, easy to navigate, and user-friendly. The customer support is really awesome. Instead of giving you the steps, they will log in and assist to resolve your problem. You will have no regrets buying this theme if it suits your ideal design.

    Don’t buy! This theme is broken as of 6/06/16. The current theme version handmade-v2.2. will fail to install and will not activate. If you install the theme you risk the white screen of death breaking your site. Support is full of messages unanswered with people having the same issue.

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  5. The theme is beautiful and has a really nice design with plenty of options. The support team is very fast, helpful, and able to respond to all your questions swiftly, making me very happy with my purchase. However, the theme is not compatible with many caching plugins and drains server load time with its handling of CSS and JS. Although I still love the theme, the support can be problematic; in one instance, a supporter accidentally disabled the “Buy now” button while trying to assist. Despite this, I would highly recommend this theme and will definitely extend my support after it expires.

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  6. I love the theme so far! I haven’t finished working on my site yet, but so far it’s been very easy to install and customize.

    It is difficult to design from the base, then after a month working on it, several plugins stopped working and started to give the same error all the time: Fatal error: Unknown: Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in Unknown on line 0. I installed everything again but it doesn’t work at all. I tried to connect to get support and there was no way. Very disappointed.

    I am really disappointed with this theme; it’s the worst I have ever worked with so far. After installing demo data, the whole site crashes down. I want to choose homepage 4, but whenever I choose it nothing happens. I have already sent an email explaining my issue, but no one responded.

    On the plus side, the look is attractive and there’s a lot of flexibility. On the negative, it’s complex and I’ve had various issues where things just suddenly start happening – the logo flips to an old one, a plug-in stops working (and wouldn’t delete!). The support is okay, but generally takes 24 hours minimum. But two main problems caused me to junk this theme and move on. The main one is site speed. Yes, I followed all their instructions to increase speed and it was still slow. The other is having to manually download and install updates for Slider Revolution and WP Bakery. This theme is too heavy and too much trouble.

    The support team is great. They always give you a quick response.

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  7. I run a business online and this theme has been vital for me to run it. Thank you for this theme as I mostly work with handmade items, so this theme is perfect and a rare find!

    Missing documentation and explanation of Handmade Widgets, including how to modify them, i.e., Product Categories Home and how to ensure it only shows the parent categories, not sub-categories.

    AMAZING support! I can’t thank them enough. The support is perfect, always there to give solutions. I love the theme for the design, the simplicity, and how flexible it can be!

    I have been looking for a suitable template for an online store for a long time. This template is very user-friendly, functional, and adaptable. During the installation of the template, there were problems with the menu, but technical support quickly solved all the questions. Thank you very much for your help. Very happy.

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