On this page
- Technology & Deployment
- Storefront & Marketplace Features
- Payments & Order Management
- Protected Digital Downloads
- Customer Accounts
- Administration Panel
- Built-in SEO Tools
- WordPress & WooCommerce Sitemap Importer
- Product Editor
- Responsive Product Layout
- What’s Included
- Suitable For
- Live Demo
- Recent Changelog
- Recent improvements at a glance
- Search Keywords
Genesis Theme & Plugin Marketplace
Launch your own digital products marketplace with PHP and SQLite.
Genesis is a complete, lightweight marketplace script for selling WordPress themes and plugins, PHP scripts, templates, documents, and other digital products. It brings together a customer-facing storefront, product discovery, checkout, protected downloads, and an administration panel.
Built with PHP 8.1+ and SQLite, Genesis is designed for Apache, shared hosting, and VPS environments. There is no Composer setup or frontend build step required.
Technology & Deployment
- Backend: PHP 8.1+ with SQLite / PDO
- Interface: Tailwind CSS, Iconify, JavaScript, and AJAX
- Hosting: Apache, shared hosting, or VPS
- Setup: No Composer installation and no Node.js build process required
- Navigation: Responsive layout, mobile off-canvas menu, and SEO-friendly pretty URLs
Storefront & Marketplace Features
Help customers find and evaluate products with a storefront built for digital goods.
- Homepage sections for recently added and featured products
- Categories, tags, product search, and AJAX search suggestions
- Price filters, sorting, featured and trending product sections
- Wishlist, shopping cart, and mini cart
- Quick view and side-by-side comparison for up to four products
- Recently viewed products, related products, and Frequently Bought Together suggestions
- Product reviews, ratings, and links for live previews, documentation, and videos
- INR and USD price display
Payments & Order Management
- Razorpay payment support for UPI and cards
- PayPal integration
- Server-side payment verification and order confirmation
- Manual order fallback
Protected Digital Downloads
Deliver purchased files through a protected download flow rather than exposing product files as public links.
- Protected product-file storage and ZIP, RAR, or 7z uploads
- Purchase verification before download
- Temporary download tokens with expiration
- Unauthorized-download protection and buyer download history
Customer Accounts
- Registration, login, profile management, and avatar upload
- Phone, company, website, country, and address fields
- Password changes, forgot-password, and reset-password flows
- Customer order and download history
Administration Panel
Manage day-to-day store operations from one admin area.
- Dashboard and product/content management
- Category and tag management
- Media library with drag-and-drop upload and remote image import
- Menu manager, widget manager, and shortcode builder
- Review moderation, contact requests, and site settings
- Branding controls for the logo, favicon, and social links
- Team and role management, audit logs, and API token management
- Bulk Find & Replace with selectable table scope
Built-in SEO Tools
- Global meta settings, Open Graph, and Twitter Cards
- Canonical URLs, robots metadata, XML sitemap, and
robots.txt - JSON-LD for products, aggregate ratings, breadcrumbs, and organization details
WordPress & WooCommerce Sitemap Importer
Import content from supported WordPress and WooCommerce sitemaps with tools to streamline discovery and reduce duplicate records.
- Sitemap URL import and automatic URL discovery
- Duplicate detection and AJAX progress updates
- Product data, categories, and gallery images import
- Option to re-host imported images on your own server
Product Editor
- Rich-text editor with Visual and HTML modes
- Featured image, gallery, and product-file management
- SEO fields, tags, badges, and related-product selection
- Scheduled publishing and custom shortcodes
Responsive Product Layout
Product cards and galleries use a consistent 16:9 image ratio. The product grid adapts to the screen:
- Mobile: one column
- Tablet: two columns
- Desktop: three columns
What’s Included
- Complete source code and admin panel
- Database schema and seed/demo data
- Payment integrations, REST API, and protected download system
- SEO system, sitemap importer, and media library
- README documentation
Suitable For
Use Genesis to build a theme marketplace, plugin marketplace, PHP script store, template marketplace, software store, WordPress resource site, or another digital-product business.
Live Demo
Recent Changelog
The following entries summarize recent storefront and admin improvements.
| Date | Area | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | Storefront theme | Dark mode and interaction polish. Added a black dark-mode canvas with blue accents, readable light text, muted secondary text, and black hover/pressed states for navigation and buttons. |
| 2026-10-08 | Storefront actions | Product-card actions improved. Cart, wishlist, compare, quick-view, and preview controls now operate independently from product-detail links. |
| 2026-10-06 | Images & galleries | Lazy image loading restored. Added an animated SVG shimmer placeholder and lazy loading for off-screen images. The featured product image also appears first in gallery navigation, while duplicate gallery entries remain filtered out. |
| 2026-10-04 | Admin tools | Editor and bulk tools updated. The product editor can switch between Visual and HTML modes, and Bulk Find & Replace lets admins choose a table scope. |
| 2026-10-02 | AJAX & order admin | Request handling refined. Search and quick-view requests use cancellation and short-lived client-side caching; AJAX requests release the PHP session lock before database work. The order detail heading now consistently displays its order group. |
Recent improvements at a glance
- Dark mode: black background, blue accent, white text, and muted secondary text.
- Faster interactions: reduced duplicate requests and avoided waiting on unnecessary session locks.
- Better product discovery: card actions work without opening the product page.
- Admin usability: Visual/HTML editing and table-scoped text replacement.
Search Keywords
PHP marketplace script, theme marketplace, plugin marketplace, digital products store, SQLite marketplace, Razorpay, PayPal, WordPress marketplace, PHP 8, admin panel, web development.
