WooCommerce rebuilds that keep your store and replace everything in front of it
Most WooCommerce stores I am asked to look at are not broken. They are buried. The products are fine, the orders come through, but the site was built page by page in a visual editor and now it is slow, awkward to update, and a chore to use on a phone. I rebuild the front of it on a hand-built theme and leave your store, your products and your order history exactly where they are.
What usually goes wrong
A page builder carrying the weight
Elementor, Divi and the rest give you a drag-and-drop editor, and charge for it on every page load. The page ships layout machinery the visitor never needed, and the phone pays for it first.
Clumsy on a phone
Small tap targets, a cramped cart and a checkout that was designed on a desktop. Most people arrive on a phone, which is exactly where these stores struggle most.
Plugin sprawl
Thirty plugins, each one a thing to update, a thing that can break, and a thing that slows the site a little. Half of them are doing a job the theme should be doing.
No safe way to change anything
No version control and no preview, so every edit goes live on a wing and a prayer. The usual result is that nobody touches it, and the site quietly ages.
How I rebuild one
Your store stays put
Same WooCommerce, same products, same orders, same customers. Nothing is migrated and no data moves, so there is nothing to lose in the switch. I replace the theme, not the shop.
A hand-built theme instead of a page builder
Templates written in code, so a page loads what it needs and nothing else. The page builder comes out. Pages get lighter and there is far less left to break.
Designed for the phone first
Bigger tap targets, a simpler cart, and buying the thing you came for in a couple of taps. The desktop version follows from that, not the other way round.
Version control and a real preview
The theme lives in git. You see every change on a preview before it reaches the live shop, and anything can be rolled back. No more editing live and hoping.
Launched without closing the shop
The new theme goes live in one step, on a quiet morning, with the old one still sitting there to switch back to. Your store keeps taking orders throughout.
A WooCommerce rebuild that went live without the shop missing a beat
Frogmouth Ponds is a small apiary in Port Sorell, Tasmania, selling raw honey, beeswax skincare and beekeeping courses. The old store was built in a visual editor: slow, fiddly to run and cramped on a phone. I rebuilt it on a hand-built WordPress theme, kept the same WooCommerce store underneath, and launched in July 2026 without the shop missing a beat.
Common questions
Do I lose my products or my order history?
No. A rebuild replaces the theme, which is the part a visitor sees. Your products, orders, customers, coupons and reports all live in WooCommerce and stay exactly as they are.
Will my plugins still work?
The ones doing a real job will. I go through them with you first, keep what earns its place, and remove the ones that were only there to prop up the page builder. Payment and shipping plugins are tested before launch, not after.
Does the shop go down while you switch it over?
No. The new theme is built and previewed alongside the live one, then activated in a single step. If anything looked wrong, switching back is one click. Frogmouth Ponds kept trading through its launch.
How long does a WooCommerce rebuild take?
A small catalogue is usually a few weeks from go-ahead to launch, most of which is design and your feedback rather than build time. A big catalogue or custom checkout rules take longer, and I will tell you that before you commit, not halfway through.
What does it cost?
A one-off build price, then a monthly fee if you want me to keep looking after it. Current numbers are on the pricing section of the home page. You see a free rebuild preview of your actual site before you spend anything.
Can you keep looking after it after launch?
Yes, that is the monthly care option: hosting, updates, security, backups and the Google work. No lock-in, and the site is yours either way.
See your WooCommerce store rebuilt, free
I will rebuild your actual store and show it to you live before you spend a cent. Rather talk it through first? Grab a 15-minute call.