Ecolive (v1.4.6) Organic Food WooCommerce WordPress Theme

My cousin runs a small organic co-op that outgrew their Squarespace plan, and we spent last weekend migrating them to WooCommerce with Ecolive. Squarespace kept dinging them for exceeding storage limits on product photos—plus their “organic” badge feature was just a hacky text overlay that looked terrible on mobile.

Where this theme actually separates itself

Unlike generic grocery themes, Ecolive’s product variant logic understands food weights aren’t just arbitrary numbers. You can set 250g, 500g, and 1kg options where inventory deducts proportionally from your bulk stock. The “farm source” meta field pulls into a dedicated tab on the product page, so customers stop emailing to ask where the carrots came from. Forced the co-op to finally set up proper delivery zones—the theme’s built-in radius checker won’t let customers checkout if they’re outside the delivery map, which eliminated a bunch of refund headaches.

Downloading without the usual ThemeForest headaches

Search “Ecolive – Organic Food WooCommerce WordPress Theme” on ThemeForest, pay $59, then ignore the massive all-files ZIP. Inside that, find ecolive-theme.zip—that’s the only file WordPress needs. I’ve made the mistake of uploading the entire package before; you get a cryptic “stylesheet missing” error that wastes 20 minutes of debugging.

License specifics that matter for small shops

Regular license covers one production domain. The co-op wanted a password-protected wholesale portal on a subdomain—technically that’s separate public access, so we bought a second $59 license to sleep better at night. Envato probably won’t hunt you down for this, but if you’re handling food orders, why risk compliance issues?

Your $59 includes:

• Lifetime updates (Themelexus has pushed 4 updates in the last year)
• 6 months of ticket support (they answered my cousin’s question about allergens display in 8 hours)
• $17 to extend support to a full year

Setup: less painful than expected

After uploading, the required plugins installer runs automatically—WooCommerce, Elementor, and Ecolive’s core plugin. Demo import took 7 minutes on their mediocre shared hosting. Had to manually configure the delivery time slots because the demo data hardcodes UTC times, which confused the local timezone settings. Stripe integration required copying keys from their Squarespace account, but that’s not theme-specific.

Why not just stay with Shopify?

For this co-op, the math was simple: Shopify would’ve cost 348/yearplustransactionfees,whiletheirWooCommercehostingis120/year. Ecolive pays for itself in three months. The trade-off is you’re now responsible for security updates, but the theme hasn’t broken compatibility with any WooCommerce update yet.

Bottom line?

If you’re leaving a hosted platform because of storage fees or transaction cuts, Ecolive is a solid bridge. It’s not revolutionary, but it understands food retail quirks better than multipurpose themes pretending to be grocery stores. Buy the license—it’s tied to your WooCommerce.com account for automatic updates, and nulled versions can’t pull them when WooCommerce drops security patches.