Essentials Shopify theme – Essentials preset
Essentials
Moderately active Highly rated clothing

Essentials Shopify theme

Essentials preset

Created by Noord

With generous white space and flexible content blocks, Essentials is a minimalist Shopify theme built for visual storytelling in clothing and accessories stores. It ships with five ready-made presets and merchandising tools such as lookbooks, before/after image sliders, and swatch filters for medium-sized catalogs.
Source Shopify Theme Store Official
★★★★★
★★★★★
5.0 · 12 reviews · 100% positive
PRICE
$ 320,00 USD
PRESETS
5 styles
View on Theme Store
PRESETS INCLUDED Total 5
Essentials Volt Chronograph Filter Gent
Theme support
noordthemes.com/help-center
Documentation
noordthemes.com/help-center/documentation/essentials

Independently reviewed by the eDIY editorial team

How fast is Essentials?

Google PageSpeed Insights scores for the home page, out of 100

In our October 2026 test, the official Essentials demo scored 73/100 on mobile and 90/100 on desktop. On mobile, LCP was 6.5s, CLS 0.03 and Total Blocking Time 77ms.

Theme demo store

Official Essentials demo, home page
73 /100
Mobile
Needs improvement
90 /100
Desktop
Good

Tested Oct 2026 · Google PageSpeed Insights lab data

MetricMobileDesktop
Largest Contentful Paint 6.5s 2.0s
Cumulative Layout Shift 0.03 0.00
Total Blocking Time 77ms 68ms
Speed Index 4.4s 1.1s

The 8 live stores we tested averaged 62/100 on mobile and 78/100 on desktop. Average mobile LCP was 13.1s and CLS was 0.01. These results reflect complete production stores, not the theme alone.

Live stores average

Mean across 8 stores running Essentials
62 /100
Mobile
Needs improvement
78 /100
Desktop
Needs improvement

Tested Oct 2026 · Results include each store's apps, images, tracking scripts and customizations

MetricMobileDesktop
Largest Contentful Paint 13.1s 3.4s
Cumulative Layout Shift 0.01 0.06
Total Blocking Time 117ms 179ms
Speed Index 7.7s 1.9s

Per-store results

8 live stores · tested Oct 2026
Paul Frank
paulfrank.com
Mobile 76
Desktop 98
Bitters & Bottles
bittersandbottles.com
Mobile 56
Desktop 61
Thrift Vintage Fashion
thriftvintagefashion.com
Mobile 56
Desktop 36
Big Shiny Balls
bigshinyballs.com
Mobile 61
Desktop 88
Ivation™
ivationproducts.com
Mobile 62
Desktop 86
Chess.com
chesscom.shop
Mobile 85
Desktop 98
El Quetzal Coffee Co.
elquetzal.coffee
Mobile 58
Desktop 80
Dart
dart-dist.com
Mobile 44
Desktop 73

Features

Built-in features listed on the Theme Store.

Cart and checkout

  • In-store pickups
  • Quick buy
  • Slide-out cart

Customer accounts and sign-in

  • Account menu

Marketing and conversion

  • Age verifier
  • Blogs
  • Cross-selling
  • Customizable contact form
  • EU translations (EN, FR, IT, DE, ES)
  • FAQ page
  • In-menu promos
  • Product badges
  • Promo banners
  • Quick view
  • Recently viewed
  • Recommended products
  • Right-to-left
  • Stock counter
  • Trust badges

Merchandising

  • Animation
  • Before/after image slider
  • Color swatches
  • High-resolution images
  • Image galleries
  • Image rollover
  • Image zoom
  • Ingredients or nutritional information
  • Lookbooks
  • Product options
  • Product videos
  • Shipping/delivery information
  • Size chart
  • Slideshow
  • Usage information
  • Combined listing (Shopify Plus)

Product discovery

  • Back-to-top button
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Collection page navigation
  • Enhanced search
  • Infinite scroll
  • Mega menu
  • Product filtering and sorting
  • Recently viewed
  • Recommended products
  • Sticky header
  • Swatch filters
44 features

Essentials ranking and satisfaction

Position among all Shopify themes
#418 of 1349
Position among Shopify themes for "clothing"
#116 of 269
Overall satisfaction based on all reviews
100% positive

Release history

LATEST VERSION
v1.6.0
Released October 1, 2026
Moderately active

Essentials has received 6 updates in the last 12 months.

Releases in 12 mo 6
Total releases 17
First release February 6, 2024
v1.6.0 FEATURE

Essentials 1.6.0 introduces several fixes and new features.

Added

  • Add vertical content alignment option to the Grid Banner section
  • Added independent mobile gallery layout option for the product page
  • Added full width mobile gallery option for the product page
  • Add an Overlay Link option to the Search Results section
  • Add tooltip to Copy link button
  • Add Quick order list section for product pages
  • Added Social media section
  • Added a Group product images by color option to display only the images associated with the selected color
  • Added top and bottom border options to the Multicolumn section.
  • Added mobile aspect ratio control to the Collection List section.
  • Added mobile slider controls alignment options in Slideshow section.
  • Added a per-slide image option for the Slideshow Double sliding effect.

Other fixes and improvements

  • Fixed error in predictive search modal
  • Fixed the button loader issue in the product card
  • Fixed price filter issue
  • Fix media height in Quick View modal
  • Replaced the Cut preset with Gent.
v1.5.1 FIX

Essentials 1.5.1 introduces several fixes and new features.

Added

  • Add support for configurable fields in contact form
  • Add option to adjust media position in slideshow section
  • Add separate images and videos for desktop and mobile in the Slideshow section
  • Add promo code field to cart drawer and cart page
  • Add Countdown section
  • Add support for Quantity pricing, rules and volume pricing in B2B
  • Added LinkedIn social media icon option
v1.5.0 FEATURE

Essentials 1.5.0 introduces several fixes and new features.

Added

  • Added high-variant product support
  • Added combined listings support for Shopify Plus
  • Added linked product options in the Product Information section
  • Added the ability to display a popup window in the variant picker block
  • Added/Updated Country Flag usage
v1.4.2 FIX

Essentials 1.4.2 introduces several fixes and new features.

Added

  • Added Heading tag setting
  • Added new Shopify-account web component
  • Added enable autoplay and loop for product page slider videos
  • Added Text fields to Brands section
  • Added activation for first and second level mobile menu links
v1.4.1 FIX

Essentials 1.4.1 introduces several fixes and new features.

Added

  • A new section "Recently viewed".

Full changelog

17 releases
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What merchants say about Essentials Shopify theme

We know about 12 reviews · showing 6

Merchant sentiment summary

AI

All 12 reviews are positive, with no neutral or negative ones. Merchants most often praise the customer support, describing it as quick, helpful and willing to assist with custom code changes. Reviewers also highlight the clean, easy-to-customise design and the regular updates that improve the theme over time.

Generated from all 12 Theme Store reviews ·

Positive 12 · 100%
Neutral 0 · 0%
Negative 0 · 0%
Highly rated

Essentials has received 2 reviews in the last 12 months.

Reviews in 12 mo 2
Total reviews 12
First review

Fantastic theme with lots of great features and a really strong design out of the box. It was easy to set up and customize, and it feels both polished and flexible. The team behind it is also very service-minded, and the support is 10/10.

B
BELOWTEN
Apr 1, 2026

It's my first time building a shopify store and using this theme has been such a pleasant experience. I like how Noord presents all of their themes, making it easy to imagine what's possible. The template design looks amazing and works perfect. No issues. It's also pretty friendly when it comes to making extra adjustments using code. Support was quick and helpful when we needed them.

Z
ZNC
Apr 1, 2026

I love the progressive nature of this theme! It gets better every version/update! kudos to the support team for being proactive!

S
SKOOP Kommunity
Aug 12, 2025

Great theme and the best support I had so far. :)

E
elvenloom
Apr 23, 2025

The support here is really great! They were super quick to help me when I had a problem. What's more, the websites they design not only look great, they also work perfectly. I am really satisfied! Thank you very much! BR Burak

T
thelureclothing
Mar 15, 2025

Excelent! And very great customer service! Highly recommended!

M
middleofnowhere
Feb 14, 2025

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