WooCommerce Theme with ACF Blocks & Bootstrap

WooCommerce Theme with ACF Blocks & Bootstrap

Most WooCommerce themes in today’s market

Most WooCommerce themes in today’s market are either bloated with page builders or too minimal to be practical. Agencies and developers often struggle between giving clients a flexible content editing experience and maintaining a clean, scalable codebase. Our theme solves this challenge by combining WooCommerce, ACF Blocks, and Bootstrap in a unified architecture that delivers both flexibility and performance.

Why This Combination Works

WooCommerce

The most powerful and widely used e-commerce engine for WordPress. It provides the foundation for product management, cart, checkout, and payments.

ACF Blocks

Advanced custom fields allow developers to create Gutenberg blocks that map perfectly to business needs, from product banners to testimonial sliders. Content managers can easily control them through WordPress’ native block editor without relying on external builders.

Bootstrap

The industry-standard CSS framework for responsive design. By leveraging Bootstrap’s grid system, utilities, and components, we ensure the theme is mobile-first, consistent, and developer-friendly.

The synergy of these three elements gives store owners visual flexibility, developers a structured codebase, and end-users fast, accessible shopping experiences.

Theme Architecture

The theme is structured around three major layers.

Core WooCommerce Integration

• Product archives and single product pages are optimized using WooCommerce hooks instead of heavy template overrides.
• Checkout and cart pages are styled with Bootstrap forms, ensuring usability and mobile responsiveness.

ACF-Based Custom Blocks

• All marketing sections such as hero sliders, promotional banners, and featured product grids are created as ACF Blocks.
• Each block is modular: PHP handles logic, SCSS/CSS handles styling, and fields are editable via the WordPress admin.
• Blocks can be reused across multiple pages, ensuring design consistency.

Bootstrap Layout

• Responsive grid system (col, row, container) ensures layouts adapt perfectly across devices.
• Utility classes minimize the need for custom CSS, keeping the stylesheet lightweight.
• Components like navbars, modals, and accordions are integrated for advanced UI.

Custom ACF Blocks in the Theme

Instead of using heavy page builders like Elementor, this theme introduces a library of custom Gutenberg blocks built with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and styled with Bootstrap. This gives store managers the power to build flexible layouts directly inside the WordPress block editor, while keeping the markup clean, semantic, and optimized for performance.

Each block is modular, responsive, multilingual-ready, and integrates seamlessly with WooCommerce.

How the Blocks Work

ACF Field Groups

Each block is defined as an ACF field group. For example:

• Product block → lets admin select products dynamically
• Slider block → lets admin add multiple slides with images, titles, and links
• Call to Action block → lets admin define a heading, text, and CTA button

PHP + Bootstrap Rendering

Every block has its own PHP template where the ACF fields are rendered into HTML. Layout and responsiveness come from Bootstrap’s grid system.
This keeps the output semantic (h5, alt, aria attributes) and SEO-friendly.

Integration with Gutenberg

Because these are ACF Blocks, they appear natively inside the block editor. Editors can insert them, reorder them, and translate them without writing code.

Examples of Custom Blocks

1. Main Block – Base section with heading, subheading, background image
2. Ads Block – Promotional banners with background, discount, CTA
3. Call to Action Block – Message highlight with button
4. Category Block – Product categories grid
5. Product Block – Featured or selected products, configurable layout
6. Services Block – Shipping info, guarantees, store policies
7. Slider Block – Image/content slider via Bootstrap Carousel
8. Comment/Testimonial Block – Customer reviews or testimonials
9. Suggestion Blocks (Brand/Link) – Cross-selling brands or related links

Why This Matters

• Performance: no extra JavaScript frameworks; blocks use native WordPress + Bootstrap
• Flexibility: editors manage layout directly in Gutenberg, developers extend via PHP
• Consistency: all blocks share the same design system (Bootstrap grid + theme.json styles)
• SEO: headings, schema, and alt texts are all generated dynamically
• Multilingual: fields are fully translatable via WPML or Polylang

Theme Settings Panel

The theme includes a dedicated Theme Settings panel in the WordPress admin. From here, developers and store managers can configure global options such as colors, typography, header and footer layouts, and default block styles. Built as a modular settings framework, this panel can be extended to meet client-specific needs.

Notifications System

The theme comes with a built-in notification system for better user interaction. Developers can trigger toast messages, banners, or modal notifications during events such as product added to cart, coupon applied, or form submission errors. These notifications are lightweight, accessible, and styled with Bootstrap components, ensuring consistency across the store.

Coupons & Custom Coupon Pages

Coupons are not just a backend feature—they are part of the customer experience. Our theme provides a dedicated coupon design system: custom coupon pages and promotional banners that can be created with ACF Blocks. Store managers can design landing pages for specific sales events (e.g., Black Friday, seasonal discounts) and highlight them with styled coupon sections. Each coupon block can display discount details, countdown timers, and CTA buttons, all fully translatable and responsive.

Coding Standards

The codebase follows WordPress coding standards and leverages modern best practices:

• PHP linted with PHPCS
• CSS/SCSS compiled and minified with PostCSS
• JavaScript is modular and enqueued conditionally
• All assets versioned for cache-busting

This ensures not only performance but also long-term maintainability.

Multilingual & RTL

The theme is translation-ready and tested with WPML and Polylang. Bootstrap’s grid system supports RTL natively, and we’ve included RTL overrides for WooCommerce-specific templates. Persian, Arabic, and Hebrew stores can run seamlessly.

Performance Optimizations

• Bootstrap customized to load only necessary components (no full bundle bloat)
• CSS reduced below 50KB
• Images lazy-loaded with proper aspect ratios
• Scripts deferred to improve First Input Delay

Test results show:

• Lighthouse score 95+
• LCP below 1.5s
• CLS near 0.01

Developer Experience

Developers benefit from a modular block-first workflow:

/theme
  /acf-blocks
    /hero
    /product-grid
    /testimonial
  /assets
    /css
    /js
  /templates
  /woocommerce
  functions.php
  theme.json

• Each ACF Block lives in its own folder with PHP, SCSS, and JS.
• Bootstrap’s mixins are available for custom block styles.
• Hooks and filters are documented for extending WooCommerce features.

This makes the theme highly maintainable and agency-ready.

Real-World Applications

• Small Stores: Launch quickly with pre-built blocks for banners and featured products.
• Agencies: Reuse blocks across multiple client projects with minimal code duplication.
• Enterprise Stores: Scale with WooCommerce + multilingual support while keeping performance intact.

SEO Structure Compliance

From the very beginning, this theme has been engineered with SEO best practices in mind. Clean code and semantic HTML ensure that search engines can easily understand the structure of your store.

• Heading Hierarchy (H1–H6): product titles, page headings, and block sections are rendered with correct semantic tags, improving both accessibility and SEO.
• Schema Markup: product pages include JSON-LD structured data (Product, Offer, BreadcrumbList, and AggregateRating), helping Google display rich snippets such as price, availability, and reviews.
• Meta Integration: titles and descriptions are fully compatible with SEO plugins like Yoast and RankMath. Dynamic fields from WooCommerce and ACF blocks can populate meta tags automatically.
• Breadcrumbs: added using WooCommerce hooks, improving internal linking and crawl depth.
• Alt Attributes: all product images and gallery items are rendered with dynamic alt text for better image search ranking.
• Clean URLs: the theme respects WooCommerce permalink structures for category and product pages.

In short, the theme doesn’t just look good — it is optimized from the ground up to help your products rank higher in search results.

Compatibility With Updates

The theme is built with long-term stability in mind. Instead of overriding dozens of WooCommerce templates, it integrates at the hook and block level. This means when WooCommerce or WordPress releases new updates, the theme remains stable and fully compatible. Developers don’t need to worry about constant template conflicts—only minimal maintenance is required. By respecting WordPress coding standards and using native APIs, the theme stays future-proof and update-safe.

Conclusion

By combining WooCommerce, ACF Blocks, and Bootstrap, our theme achieves the best of both worlds:

• A flexible block editor for content teams
• A clean and modular codebase for developers
• A responsive, fast, and user-friendly shopping experience for customers

It’s not just a WooCommerce theme—it’s a framework for professional e-commerce development.velopment.