Tyche Theme Review

General Design

The general design focus on cleanness, decent and professional look, which helps people feel comfortable while browsing and buying your product. It's also sharp and robust thanks to the straight lines in the design.

Other elements

Thanks to the light grey color, this theme can have a decent appearance. Besides, the red elements can highlight the special parts so you will never be bored by this basic color palette. You can change this highlight color but the main color black, white and grey stay unchanged.

The author uses only one family font: Karla. It's quite straightforward and solid so it can coincide with the general design of this WordPress eCommerce theme.

The first screen area is the most overwhelming place with a full-width hero image and many call-to-action elements, which are all arranged reasonably. Moreover, you can show a banner for advertisement here. The optimal size is 728x90, and if you don't use this, your banner can't get well with other elements on this area like I did here.

Along with a static hero image, Tyche gives you a Featured Slider. It's full-screen and amazingly overwhelming. However, you should choose images with similar sizes if you don't want it to be so empty like this.

The product catalog on the homepage can be shown in a grid horizontally like in the demo, or vertically in a list like this. The vertical style makes your product image larger, but it takes too much space so I still prefer the grid structure as it's tidier.

But in this area, I recommend the list structure. It fits with the whole layout of this place more than the grid one. You can see that I try the grid style with the third column and it looks not good.

Next, you can zoom in closely any product image on the homepage. That's so amazing!

Other inner pages are nice, but I find the blog page is too long as it displays the whole content of each post instead of excerpts. Unfortunately, you have to edit each post in the Edit Post and use the Page Break to have the Read More button like the demo because of no post excerpt section in the Customizer.

Responsive

If you use this eCommerce theme on mobile or tablet, or any viewport, it still displays nicely like on PC.

You have to way to set up this free eCommerce theme after installing it normally like other free themes on WordPress.org. The first way, which is faster, is using instant install. But first, you need to install WordPress Importer Widget Importer Exporter Plugin and follow the recommended actions. Notice that you should download 2 demo files and import all of them, one for the content and one for the widget. The author instructs you to do it carefully in the documentation so I don't think it's a difficult task for even a beginner like me.

If you want to set up it traditionally, you have to do a lot of things like set up the homepage widget to have all the product catalogs like the demo. It's quite complicated so you should spend time editing it carefully. For all these steps and other customization, the Live Customizer will help you do them quickly and conveniently. However, it needs you to install Kirki plugin to have the Theme Option and FrontPage Section.

You have many important features for an eCommerce website, especially WooCommerce. Moreover, it's compatible with other things like the Zoom-in effect, Social Linking, Google Maps integration (compatible with WP Google Maps), multi-area for Advertising ... to help you promote and sell your product better.

When editing this free eCommerce theme, you just need to work with Customizer and there are a lot of sections for you to deal with.

For example, the Theme Option allows you to customize the basic stuff like color, footer layout, sidebar position easily.

However, I find a mistake with the Header Text Color section. The header text should be recolored but it doesn't. Besides, your choice of color is limited to only seven color schemes, which means you can't choose any color you want for the highlighted parts and change the black and grey tone.

There are two methods to add a banner for advertisement in the header: uploading an image, which is too easy or using AdSense Code, which requires you to how to find and add code from Google Advertisement Code. So if you are just a non-professional user, I suggest that you should use an image.

Similarly, you have to embed code to the Contact Form and Google Map. It's quite difficult so beginner users should watch the documentation to do it.

The product lists you see on the homepage are set up in the Widget section. Here you are, a bunch of Widget areas for you to add any widgets from the popular one of Wordpress to the special Tyche Product.

As for this special widget from Tyche, you can select a category to show your product and do lots of things with it. However, the banner image doesn't show up properly here.

Lastly, I tried managing the Slider. It's simple as well because I just need to choose an image and fill in these tabs to edit the texts on the image. To add other sliders, click the button below. I click it 15 times and it seems like the number of the slider is unlimited, or that is a quite great number.

The daily use is just as simple as other themes in this review. There are a lot of standard post types and they all look fine.

The image and gallery are prominent and fitted with the whole post.

You can embed a link from the big channel like Youtube, Vimeo, or embed Facebook, Twitter, ... link. But the video frame is not full-width so it looks a bit unsymmetrical with the whole post.

I verified SEO optimization by some online tools. The result is not good as it still lacks some more steps to completely optimized for SEO. Therefore, you have to install a plugin to have an SEO-friendly website.

Speed was checked by Google PageSpeed Insights and you can see the result here. It's not bad, right?

This theme documentation is wrapped in different video tutorials for different sections. This comprehensively gives you all you need to deal with your theme in the most understandable way.

You can seek help in the free support forum for everyone. The questions and answers are visible for people but if you want to create or respond to a topic you have to have an account and sign in. It's free, quick and simple to register an account here. Moreover, you can enjoy your search by using the search bar.

In the WordPress support forum, I see no official reply from the author so I don't know if they support here or not.