StoreFront is the official WordPress theme created by WooThemes for their ever popular WooCommerce plugin. StoreFront is targeted as a lean and efficient base theme for your WooCommerce installation allowing you to add more theme functionality via extension plugins and code customizations.
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WooThemes StoreFront Blank Starter Child Theme
The best practice way to customize WooThemes StoreFront theme is to create a child theme for your project that allows you to store any code customizations. To make it easy for you to begin customizing StoreFront we have created a simple blank child theme that’s ready for you to install and quickly add your custom code to.
When customizing StoreFront or any WordPress theme for that matter you really should be using a child theme to store any custom code like CSS, HTML and PHP you may need to add to your site. By storing this within a child theme, it means that you can always keep up to date with the latest version of StoreFront via auto updates knowing that none of your custom code will be overwritten during this process.
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Add A Full Width Slider To WooThemes StoreFront Homepage
Following up from my post regarding WooThemes StoreFront theme I thought it would be good to give an example if how you can add content to the StoreFront homepage, specifically a full-width slider under the header area.
This tutorial will demonstrate how to add a full-width slider to the StoreFront homepage using WooSlider from WooThemes, the same process will apply to any slider though.