Uncode – Creative & WooCommerce WordPress Theme

The theme for somebody who will fuss over every pixel

Some themes get bought to have a website ready over a weekend, and some get bought because the buyer is going to wrestle with the design until it is exact. Uncode is the second kind. Its audience is designers, studios and agencies who are not going to import a demo and publish, but use it as a starting point and move everything.

Hence its more than fifty prebuilt concepts, designed to be combined with each other rather than used as they come.

What it brings

• More than fifty ready concepts: fullscreen, full width, boxed, one-page scrolling, landing pages.
• A visual builder, an adapted version of WPBakery with its own interface.
• Revolution Slider and LayerSlider included, plus its own lightbox.
• A WooCommerce shop, with catalogue and product pages.
• Portfolio and blog with several layouts, which is where this theme shines.

Its ground: the portfolio

It is designed for agencies, photographers, architects, studios and creatives, and that is where it genuinely shows. The portfolio layouts and the attention to visual detail are what justify choosing it over a more generic multipurpose theme.

And an honest warning for that same audience: a design studio building its site on a purchased template competes with itself, because its client might recognise the demo. Here that matters less than with other themes, precisely because it is made to be modified thoroughly, but only if you genuinely modify it. Importing the concept as-is and publishing is what this kind of business should not do.

Requirements and the small print

It is a WordPress theme with its own builder included, so you do not need to buy Elementor or anything separately. It works with WooCommerce for the shop side.

And here is the important part: that builder is its own version of WPBakery, which stores the design as shortcodes inside the content. While the theme is active, all perfect. The day you change, those pages are left with codes in square brackets and have to be rebuilt.

With one nuance that makes it slightly worse: being an adapted version, some of those shortcodes belong to Uncode, not to generic WPBakery. The dependency is on the theme, not only on the builder.

How to start

One. Pick one concept and build on it. Do not import five to compare: every import leaves sample content in the database.

Two. Change typography, colour and grid first, before touching the content. That is what separates your site from the demo.

Three. Replace every image with yours. The demo ones carry their own licence and are also what makes the template recognisable.

Four. Measure speed before publishing. Themes with many visual effects weigh, and this one has plenty.

Alternatives in the catalogue

If you want a multipurpose theme with its own builder and a complete ecosystem, Avada is the most ambitious, with more than a hundred prebuilt sites and several premium plugins included. If you are going for a creative portfolio with the same orientation as Uncode, Salient is the sector's other veteran.

And if your project is mainly a shop, there are better options: WoodMart works with all three editors in the ecosystem and does not tie you to a proprietary builder, and Flatsome brings inside the shop features that would normally be five plugins.

And if what holds you back is precisely the dependency on a proprietary builder, the two themes most chosen today for the opposite reason are Astra, very light and comfortable with any editor, and Divi, which has its own builder but an enormous addon ecosystem behind it.

And on the builder, two notes. The one Uncode ships is an adapted version of WPBakery, so if you already know that tool the jump is short. And if what you want is the opposite, fine control with clean code output and no shortcodes embedded in the content, Bricks is today the option most chosen by people coming from hand-coding.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need Elementor?
No. It brings its own visual builder included.

What happens if I change theme?
Pages built with its builder have to be rebuilt, because the design is stored as its own shortcodes.

Is it suitable for a shop?
Yes, it is WooCommerce compatible, although its strong point is the creative portfolio.

How many designs does it bring?
More than fifty concepts, designed to be combined rather than used as they come.

Does it include sliders?
Yes, Revolution Slider and LayerSlider come with the theme.

Is it easy for somebody without experience?
Less than others. It is designed for whoever will customise thoroughly, not for publishing the demo unchanged.