Best WordPress Plugins and Themes for Pet Businesses
Whether you run a pet store, vet clinic, shelter, or a pet-sitting or breeding business, you’re going to need a website that aligns with your company and helps further your message.
If you’re looking to get a beautiful website live in as little time as possible, then WordPress can help you get there.
There are a lot of themes to choose from and it can be difficult to sort through them all to find the right one. Luckily, we’ve done the heavy lifting for you. Below you’ll find five of our favorite pet business themes and a few plugin recommendations to help extend the functionality of your site.
Our Favorite Pet Business WordPress Themes
The choices below don’t cover every single pet business theme on the market, but they are well-positioned to help you build a beautiful website that furthers the needs of your business.
1. Dawg
Dawg is a WordPress theme that’s built for dog breeders. It can be customized to suit any style of breed. This theme is responsive, easy to customize and a must have for kennels and serious dog breeders.
This theme is built using the Layers page builder plugin, which makes it very easy to build out custom pages. You’ll have four different homepage layouts to choose from along with extensive documentation to help you build your site.
2. PetCare
PetCare is a great theme if you’re looking for one that’s geared towards your vet clinic or pet care center. It has a beautiful design and integrates with WooCommerce (a nice feature if you’re looking to sell your own products).
It offers both single page layouts and has multiple blog and shop layouts, so you can customize your site to your liking. PetCare also offers six different homepage layouts and multiple customization options.
3. Rescue
Rescue is the perfect theme for those looking to create a great website for your animal shelter. This theme is built around the purpose of finding homes for your animals. It’s even integrated with the plugin PetFinder.
This theme doesn’t allow for an insane amount of customization, but it suits its purpose nicely. You’ll be able to choose from 2 different content layouts, customize your slider, and much more.
If you’re looking for a theme that’ll showcase your animals and help them find homes, then this theme is worth trying.
4. Pet Store
If you run a pet shop and you’re looking for a way to also sell your products online, then this is a great theme. It has built in product functionality and lets you beautifully showcase your entire inventory. Plus, it’s built to work with WooCommerce.
This theme is loaded with page customizers, custom widgets, sliders, and much more. Best of all, it’s incredibly easy to setup and use, and there’s a plethora of video tutorials to help you quickly build out your site.
5. Happy Pets
Happy Pets is a very versatile theme that can be used for virtually any pet related business. Unlike the themes above, there is no specific focus, just pets! This theme is responsive, very fast, and can be easily customized with the help of the Visual Composer plugin.
No matter your style of pet website, you can make it look good with this theme. Happy Pets is also equipped with Typekit and Google fonts, so you can choose the right typography for your site.
Finally, there’s solid blogging integration, so you can easily create a pet-related blog for your site.
Our Favorite Pet Business WordPress Plugins
When it comes to choosing the right WordPress plugins for your pet business site, there aren’t a ton of pet-specific plugins to choose from. Most of the themes we highlighted above have built-in functionality to handle all of your pressing needs.
Still, there are a few plugins worth using if you’re seeking additional functionality and features from your site.
Pet Manager
Pet Manager lets you easily keep track of and create custom posts for every single pet at your shelter. You can customize things like breed into, and even let your users post updates about their own animals.
If your site doesn’t offer enough customization for managing your pets, then consider using this plugin.
Breedr
If you’re an animal breeder, then this is a must-have plugin. This full-featured plugin lets you easily manage litters, showcase animal health screenings, and add pictures, videos and more.
If you’re looking to extend the features of your animal breeding website, then give this plugin a try.
Do you have any pet-related WordPress plugins or themes you can’t live without? Please share from the comments below.
Kevin Wood writes about technology and human potential. You can find him at his virtual homes Wooden Writing and Counter Culturist.
Great timing… We’re running a very small dog breeding activity and we were actually hesitating between Breedr for WordPress and Pet Manager. We’ll probably go with Breedr simply because of how much content the creator pumps out on breeding. Feels more alive.
As for themes, not sure yet… still browsing and will make up my mind on the spot!