Aurum – Luxury eCommerce ThemeAurum – Luxury eCommerce Theme
Aurum is a premium WooCommerce WordPress theme designed for modern online stores and luxury brands. Featuring a Recently Updated
Overview
Aurum is a premium WooCommerce WordPress theme crafted for brands that value both performance and aesthetics. Designed with a modern and refined visual style, Aurum helps you build stunning online stores for fashion, technology, lifestyle, furniture, jewelry, beauty, and premium products.
The theme features a fully dynamic homepage, allowing you to manage hero sliders, editorial sections, product showcases, testimonials, statistics, and newsletter areas directly from the WordPress dashboard. Every section is customizable without touching a single line of code.
Aurum delivers a fast and seamless shopping experience through AJAX-powered product filtering, live search, instant add-to-cart functionality, and a dynamic cart drawer. PJAX navigation reduces page reloads and creates smooth transitions throughout the store.
Key Features
• Premium and modern WooCommerce design
• AJAX product filtering and shop navigation
• AJAX add-to-cart with live cart drawer
• Dark & Light mode support
• Dynamic homepage builder
• Hero slider management system
• Advanced product attributes and filters
• Fully responsive layout
• Translation ready
• WooCommerce compatible
• Customizable colors and typography
• Testimonials and editorial content sections
• Newsletter integration
• Child theme included
• Optimized for performance and user experience
Whether you're launching a luxury fashion brand, a modern electronics store, or a premium lifestyle marketplace, Aurum provides the tools and flexibility needed to create a memorable shopping experience and maximize conversions.
Features
• Premium Modern WooCommerce Design
• AJAX Shop Filtering & Sorting
• AJAX Add to Cart
• Live Cart Drawer
• PJAX Navigation for Faster Browsing
• Dark & Light Mode Support
• Dynamic Homepage Sections
• Advanced Hero Slider Management
• Fully Responsive Layout
• WooCommerce Ready
• Advanced Product Filters
• Product Attribute Filtering
• Product Color Swatches
• Product Brand Filtering
• Product Reviews & Ratings
• Related Products Section
• Custom Product Gallery
• Testimonial Management
• Newsletter Integration
• Animated Statistics Counters
• Announcement Top Bar
• Custom Footer Builder
• Customizable Color System
• Unlimited Accent Colors
• Translation Ready
• Child Theme Included
• SEO Friendly Structure
• Performance Optimized
• Cross-Browser Compatible
• Mobile-First Experience
• One-Click Theme Setup
• Developer Friendly Code
• Regular Updates
• Detailed Documentation
Requirements
• WordPress 6.2 or higher
• PHP 7.4 or higher (PHP 8.0+ recommended)
• WooCommerce (latest version recommended)
• MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+
• Modern web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge)
• Recommended memory limit: 256MB+
• HTTPS enabled for checkout and account pages
Instructions
Aurum theme guide
Thank you for choosing Aurum — a premium, animation-rich WooCommerce theme. This guide walks you through installation, setup and every option, from the dynamic hero to the AJAX shop.
01Introduction
Aurum is built so that everything visitors see is editable from the WordPress dashboard — the header, footer, hero slider, marquee, editorial block, stat counters, testimonials and newsletter are all dynamic, with elegant demo fallbacks so the site looks complete from the moment it is activated.
02Requirements
- WordPress 6.2+
- PHP 7.4+ (8.0+ recommended)
- WooCommerce (latest) — required for the shop, cart and product pages. Aurum also runs beautifully as a blog/marketing theme without it.
03Installation
- In your dashboard go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme.
- Upload
aurum.zip, click Install Now, then Activate. - Install & activate WooCommerce from Plugins → Add New to unlock shop features.
- Open Appearance → Customize to set your logo, colours and options.
aurum-child theme instead and activate that — see Child theme.
04Front page setup
To display the long Aurum home page (hero, categories, featured, editorial, bestsellers, stats, testimonials, newsletter):
- Create a new empty Page (e.g. “Home”) and, optionally, a Page named “Journal” for your blog.
- Go to Settings → Reading.
- Set Your homepage displays to A static page.
- Choose “Home” as the Homepage and “Journal” as the Posts page.
Each home section can be switched on or off and edited under Customize → Aurum Options → Front Page Sections.
05Hero slider
The hero is powered by a dedicated Slides post type that appears in your dashboard sidebar after activation.
- Go to Slides → Add New.
- Set the Featured Image — this becomes the slide background.
- Fill in the Slide Content box: eyebrow, title (before / highlighted / after), text and two buttons.
- Control the order with the Order field under Page Attributes (lower = earlier).
06Menus
Create menus under Appearance → Menus and assign them to these locations:
| Location | Used for |
|---|---|
| Primary | The main header navigation (desktop). |
| Mobile | The slide-out mobile drawer menu. |
| Footer | Optional links in the footer area (try to use the Footer Widget instead of the Footer Menu.). |
If no menu is assigned, Aurum shows a sensible fallback that links to your shop and pages.
07Widgets
Manage widgets under Appearance → Widgets. Available areas:
- Blog Sidebar — shown alongside blog/archive pages where applicable.
- Footer Column 1–3 — three footer widget columns.
08Testimonials
Add customer quotes via the Testimonials post type:
- Go to Testimonials → Add New.
- Use the title for the customer’s name and the content for the quote.
- Set the Role (e.g. “Verified buyer”) in the meta box.
The home testimonials section shows up to three; a demo set appears until you add your own.
09Customizer options
All options live under Appearance → Customize → Aurum Options:
| Panel | What you can change |
|---|---|
| Colors | Accent and bright-accent colours used site-wide. |
| General & Performance | Default mode, sticky header, PJAX, open-cart-on-add. |
| Topbar | Announcement bar text and visibility. |
| Hero | Slider auto-play interval. |
| Front Page Sections | Toggle each home section on/off. |
| Marquee | Repeater of scrolling strip items. |
| Editorial | Eyebrow, title, text, button and three spec stats. |
| Stats Counters | Repeater of animated number / suffix / label rows. |
| Newsletter | Copy and an optional form action URL (e.g. Mailchimp). |
| Footer | About text, copyright and payment labels. |
First access, *always*. renders “always” in the accent colour.
10Dark & light mode
Aurum ships with both a deep “obsidian” dark theme and a refined light theme.
- Visitors toggle modes with the sun/moon button in the header; their choice is remembered.
- Set the default mode under Customize → Aurum Options → General & Performance.
11Child theme
For safe code customizations that survive updates, use the bundled aurum-child theme.
- Upload
aurum-child.zipvia Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme. - Activate Aurum Child.
- Add CSS to the child’s
style.cssand PHP to itsfunctions.php.
Example — change the product page “Shipping” tab text from the child theme:
add_filter( 'aurum_shipping_tab_content', function ( $text ) {
return 'Free next-day delivery on all orders.';
} );
12Shop & cart
With WooCommerce active, the shop, cart, checkout and account pages work out of the box.
- The shop archive filters, sorts, searches and paginates entirely over AJAX — no page reloads.
- Add to cart is AJAX-powered with a slide-out cart drawer and a live header count.
- Site-wide PJAX navigation is enabled, but Cart, Checkout and My Account are intentionally excluded for payment reliability.
13Filters & attributes
The shop sidebar builds its filters from your real store data:
| Filter | Source |
|---|---|
| Category | WooCommerce product categories (product_cat). |
| Brand | A product_brand taxonomy if present, otherwise a pa_brand attribute. |
| Colour | A pa_color product attribute (swatch colour auto-detected from the term name). |
| Price | Auto-ranged from your lowest and highest product prices. |
| Availability | In-stock and on-sale toggles. |
| Rating | Average review rating. |
To enable brand/colour filters, create those attributes under Products → Attributes, add terms, and assign them to products.
14Product page
The single-product page features a custom gallery, fully functional native add-to-cart (including variable products and quantity steppers), an assurance row, product meta, and tabs for Description, Specifications, Reviews and Shipping, followed by related products.
- Gallery: uses the product image plus gallery images; click a thumbnail to swap the main image.
- Specifications: pulls from your product attributes / additional information.
- Reviews: standard WooCommerce reviews with rating and form.
15Translation
Aurum is fully translation-ready with the text domain aurum. A template file is included at languages/aurum.pot.
- Open
aurum.potin a tool like Poedit. - Translate the strings and save a
.po/.mopair (e.g.fr_FR.mo). - Place the files in the theme’s
languagesfolder.
16Credits & support
Fonts
Cormorant Garamond & Jost — both under the SIL Open Font License, served via Google Fonts.
Images
No images are bundled. Demo fallback images reference Unsplash for preview only — replace them with your own media in production.
Built on WordPress & WooCommerce. Iconography is a custom inline SVG sprite included with the theme.
Aurum WordPress Theme — © 2026. Distributed under the GNU GPL v2 or later. Thank you for your purchase.
| Category | Themes / WordPress / eCommerce |
| First release | 16 June 2026 |
| Last update | 16 June 2026 |
| Supported CMS | WordPress 6.2, WordPress 6.3, WordPress 6.5, WordPress 6.6, WordPress 6.7, WordPress 6.8 |
| Files included | .php, .css, .html, Javascript .js |
| Tags | wordpress, ecommerce, responsive, modern, woocommerce, fashion, shopping, luxury, ajax cart, online store, woocommerce theme, dark mode, ajax shop, pjax, product filters |








