Pothik – Footwear WordPress Theme

Pothik is a footwear WordPress theme for shoe houses that serve every age at one counter. Office shoes for men, sandals for women, school pairs for kids, soft comfort shoes for elders, and nagra, kolhapuri and chappal all sit under one roof. It is made with leather workshops in mind, but any shoe seller can use it.

The look is cream, cognac and dark olive, with a serif heading font that reads like a hand-painted shop sign. Thin stitched rules sit under the section titles. The shop engine, Themeve Commerce, is bundled, so orders, payments and couriers work without WooCommerce. It is one of the shoes ecommerce website templates that ships with its own shop engine.

Who can use Pothik

Most shoe themes are built around one sneaker brand. Pothik is built for a counter where a grandfather and his grandchild are fitted on the same afternoon. The demo is only a sample of that idea. This footwear WordPress theme suits many kinds of sellers:

• A leather shoe workshop that sells its own pairs online
• A family shoe house with men's, women's and kids' sections
• A seller of nagra, kolhapuri, chappal and traditional footwear
• A formal and office shoe shop
• A wedding and Eid shoe boutique
• A comfort shoe shop for elders
• A repair-and-sell cobbler who wants a proper website
• A reseller who stocks pairs from many workshops

It needs WordPress 6.0 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer, and it is tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Light pages for a footwear WordPress theme

On the front of your shop, Pothik loads one stylesheet and one script. The script has no dependencies and does not use jQuery. Images printed by the theme load lazily, and the layout adjusts from small phones to wide screens. Google Fonts can be switched off in Theme Options if you prefer system fonts.

Front-end features of the Pothik footwear WordPress theme

Header, menu and phone layout

• Header and menu settings in Theme Options
• Sliding panels for the cart, the account and the menu
• Phone header with menu, logo and cart only
• Compact product cards, two pairs side by side on a phone

Homepage: 24 blocks you can move

The homepage has 24 blocks. Fourteen are on out of the box and ten wait in reserve. Every block can be turned off and dragged into a new order. On a phone, small arrows move each block up or down.

• Hero slider with a small card styled like a shoebox label
• Every age, every step, a footprint path from first steps to the golden years, where each stop opens a category or tag
• The occasion shelf, wooden shelves with brass name plates, set up by you in Theme Options
• Shop the house, framed category tiles
• New on the shelf, the newest pairs in two rows
• Family favourites, pairs in tabs by category
• Two department blocks, each with a banner and eight pairs
• Made by hand, four craft cards about your workshop
• Shop offers, with a countdown and stock bars
• Shop by price tiles, workshop logos and your latest three cobbler's notes
• Promise strip for exchange, try at door, cash on delivery and repairs, which you can edit to match what you really offer

The reserve blocks add more rows and banners for a larger catalogue.

The age path and the occasion shelf

These two blocks are the heart of this footwear WordPress theme. A mother looking for her toddler's first shoes and a son buying soft soles for his father both reach the right category in one tap. On the shelves, pairs are grouped by occasion. The demo uses office, Eid and weddings, rain or shine, and around the house. You can write your own shelves.

Shoebox product cards

• A cognac lid stripe and stitched border, like a shoebox
• A size sticker, for example Size 39 to 45
• A serif product name and a leather-brown add button
• Sizes and colours taken from product attributes

Product page, cart and checkout

• Size guides that buyers can open before they order
• Reviews inside a tidy fold, with a popup that invites the first review
• Wishlist, so a shopper can save a pair and return later
• Sign in or register in a popup without losing the place
• One-page checkout that ends with an "Order placed" popup
• Track Order page for the parcel

Colours and fonts

• Five palettes: Cognac and olive, Oxblood, Navy and tan, Espresso and Forest
• Each colour can also be picked by hand
• Four font pairs: Young Serif with Rubik, Bitter with Rubik, Crimson Pro with Work Sans, and Rubik alone

Theme Options in the back-end

Everything in this footwear WordPress theme is set in Pothik, then Theme Options. You use switches, pickers and drag and drop. No code is needed.

• Homepage layout: blocks on or off, and drag to reorder
• Header and menu
• Hero slider
• The age path and the occasion shelves
• Product cards and product page
• Footer and contact details
• Colours, fonts and the Google Fonts switch
• A search box that finds any setting
• A sticky save bar that keeps the Save button close
• Export, import and reset

The Live Customizer is in the Pothik menu too. Setup installs the plugin and License holds your key for updates.

Running the shop from the dashboard

The Themeve Commerce plugin comes with the theme and installs from Pothik, then Setup, in one click. You do not need WooCommerce, a payment plugin or a courier plugin. Here is what you control from the WordPress dashboard.

Sales overview and orders

The store dashboard shows today's sales, the last seven days, the month so far and the orders waiting for you, with a two-week chart. Every order has a status, a printable invoice and a payments box for advances, dues and refunds. Incomplete Orders lists people who began to check out and left. For a pair of wedding shoes, one phone call to that person may save the sale.

Products and variations

The full-page product editor lets you add a pair in several sizes and colours. Each option can keep its own price, stock, SKU and photo. Categories, brands and tags have their own menus, so you can tag a pair as a workshop's make or as an occasion shoe.

Payments

• Cash on delivery, with an optional advance as a fixed amount, the delivery charge or a percentage
• bKash and Nagad payment
• Card payment through SSLCommerz
• Manual Send Money for bKash, Nagad, Rocket and Upay with a transaction ID

Delivery and courier

• Delivery charge per district, plus extra zones
• Send an order to Steadfast or Pathao from the order screen
• Courier automation for less manual work
• COD money screen that shows what the courier still owes you, with an import of their payment sheet

Accounts, alerts and protection

• Buyers sign in by password, by a code sent to the phone, or with Google or Facebook
• Customer account with orders, delivery tracking, wishlist and exchange or return requests
• New-order alerts by email, Telegram or WhatsApp, handy when you are busy at the workbench
• SMS updates, and an automatic review request after delivery
• OTP phone verification and fake order protection for suspicious cash-on-delivery orders
• SMS campaigns to past buyers

Marketing, SEO and reports

• Facebook Pixel with the Conversion API
• Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager
• Product feeds for Facebook and Google shopping
• SEO settings for descriptions, sharing previews and Google product rich results
• Coupons for Eid, wedding season or a slow month
• Transactions screen with each payment and refund, and monthly totals
• Customer list that groups buyers as new, repeat, VIP, inactive or risky

Optional modules

You switch on only the modules you use, from one screen, so the shop stays light:

• Pre-orders, useful for made-to-measure pairs
• Delivery Date and Time
• Bulk Order and Corporate Quotes
• Reseller and Wholesale Prices
• Combo and Bundle Offers, and Flash Sale
• Loyalty Points with refer a friend
• Upsell and Cross-sell, and Recently Viewed
• Back in Stock Alerts, and Exchange and Returns
• Store Locations
• Sales and Signup popups
• Affiliate Program with commissions, and a Marketplace module
• Support tickets, testimonials and offers, each with its own menu
• A REST API with signed webhooks for developers

How it helps a shoe house sell

A footwear WordPress theme has to answer two worries: fit and quality. Pothik answers both. The size sticker and size guides handle fit. The Made by hand cards and cobbler's notes let you show how your pairs are cut and stitched, which a buyer cannot see in a photo alone.

Seasons matter in this trade. Use coupons and the countdown offers before Eid and the wedding months. Use Back in Stock Alerts for the size that always sells out first. Put your exchange and repair rules on the editable Exchange and Repairs page, and list your showrooms on the Our Stores page for buyers who want to try a pair in person.

Set up in six steps

1. Upload the zip under Appearance, then Themes, and activate it.
2. Open Pothik, then Setup, and install the plugin in one click.
3. Add your licence under Pothik, then License.
4. Run Demo Import to load the sample shop, menus and pages.
5. Choose a palette and font pair, and write your own shelves and age stops.
6. Replace the sample products with your pairs and photos.

Why choose Pothik as your footwear WordPress theme

• It is made for shoes sold to all ages, not for one sneaker line.
• The shop engine is included, so you do not collect and test many plugins.
• bKash, Nagad, SSLCommerz, Steadfast and Pathao are built in.
• Homepage blocks move without code, even from a phone.
• It works as one of the shoes ecommerce website templates you can grow with, from a few pairs to a full catalogue.

The demo in one line

The Family Shoe House demo adds 35 pairs from 6 invented workshops, posts, menus and pages such as About, Cobbler's Notes, Delivery, Exchange and Repairs, FAQ, Our Stores, Track Order and Wishlist.

What is included

• The Pothik theme files (PHP, CSS and JS)
• The Themeve Commerce plugin
• One-click demo content
• Documentation, available after purchase
• Six months of support, and updates through your licence

If you sell sneakers and everyday pairs, look at Kadam. To dress the same families in clothes, see Shobar.

You can see Pothik working on the live demo, and browse more ready-made designs in our WordPress themes collection.