LT Crock is a WooCommerce block theme for subscription boxes, shown as a fermentation club that sends live cultures, kombucha and kefir starters and kimchi or sauerkraut kits every 2, 4 or 8 weeks. It has a plan picker with a box size x rhythm table, this month's crate, a fermentation calendar, skip / pause / cancel and gift sections, all on WooCommerce's own blocks. Pro Unlimited adds the AI kit, so an assistant can rebrand and extend the store safely.
- Store type: Subscription boxes
- Made for: Fermentation club (Food & drink)
- Live demo: woocommerce.ltheme.com/lt-crock/
- Product page and download: LT Crock on ltheme.com
- Requires: WordPress 7.0+, WooCommerce 10.0+, PHP 8.1+
- Version: 1.0.0
Editions
- Free: the LT Crock theme package: all templates, the section patterns, page layouts and colour styles. No demo content or demo import; the footer credit stays.
- Pro Standard ($29 a year): + the complete LT Crock demo store with one-click import, one year of updates with a licence key and ticket support; the footer credit is removed.
- Pro Unlimited ($49 once): + the AI kit, unlimited websites and lifetime updates and support.
See the editions table.
Quick setup
- Install and activate WooCommerce, then upload and activate LT Crock (Install the theme).
- Pro: Appearance → Demo import → Import (Demo import), then add your licence key in Appearance → Licence.
- Free: build the pages with the theme’s patterns and page layouts (below).
- Pick a colour style in Appearance → Editor → Styles, set your logo and menu.
- Replace the sample content and go live (Going live).
What the demo import adds (Pro)
Appearance → Demo import shows one demo, Crock: A cream, olive and terracotta store for a fermentation club: crate plans every 2, 4 or 8 weeks, starter cultures, ferment kits, crocks and gift runs, with a plan picker, this month's crate and a brewing calendar. It adds:
- 15 products (6 variable, with options, 5 on sale)
- 5 product categories: Crate plans, Starter cultures, Ferment kits, Crocks & gear, Gift crocks
- 6 pages: Home, Shop, How plans work, About, Contact, FAQ & delivery (WooCommerce’s own Cart, Checkout and My account pages are used as they are)
- The main menu: Plans, Shop, About, FAQ, Contact
- The style Crock, the site title and tagline and the announcement bar text
Existing content is never changed: anything whose address is already taken is skipped. Prices are marked “Example prices”.
Pages in the live demo
Open them on the live demo:
| Page | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Homepage | Split hero with a Build your box card, crock-lid categories, plan picker, this month's crate, how it works, fermentation calendar, gift runs and starter troubleshooting. |
| Shop | WooCommerce product collection with crate plans, starter cultures, ferment kits, crocks and gift runs in five categories. |
| Plan product | A variable plan product with Box size and Frequency options, built with WooCommerce's product blocks. |
| How plans work | Compare plans table, plan picker, skip / pause / cancel explainer and prepaid gift runs on one page. |
| Cart | WooCommerce Cart block styled to the theme, with the mini-cart in the header. |
How plans work: the store-type page
Compare plans table, plan picker, skip / pause / cancel explainer and prepaid gift runs on one page. This is the Subscription boxes page of LT Crock: see it on the live demo. Pro imports it with the demo; with Free, create a page and insert the How plans work page layout from Patterns → LT Crock: full pages.
What is in the theme
- 21 section patterns and 6 page layouts
- Plan picker with a box size x frequency price table
- This month's crate cards with lid badges and brew-time chips
- Static fermentation calendar and starter troubleshooting FAQ
- Skip / pause / cancel and gift run sections (subscriptions plugin needed for renewals)
- 3 colour styles: Crock, Brine (dark) and Beet
- Self-hosted fonts (Sanchez + Sarala), no Google Fonts requests
- WooCommerce blocks for shop, product, cart, checkout and account
Section patterns
Add them to any page from the block inserter: Patterns → LT Crock: shop sections. Every edition has all of them.
| Pattern | What it is |
|---|---|
| Brand story | Photo beside the club story, a values checklist and a signature line. |
| Contact cards | Four cards: phone, email, packing room and plan-change cut-off. |
| This month's crate (culture cards) | Three-column culture cards with a jar-lid badge for the culture type, brew-time chips and a short text. |
| Offers with sale badges | Products that are on sale, with sale badges, a heading row and a button. |
| Delivery and fees | Delivery options and example fees in a card. |
| FAQ | Heading on the left, expandable questions on the right. |
| Fermentation calendar (weekly timeline) | Static sample: a seven-day timeline with what to start, taste and bottle each day, with a legend and a note. |
| Gift a crock (3 / 6 / 12 crates) | Photo beside three prepaid gift lengths with lid badges, example prices, a button and a note. |
| Offer banner | Single dark banner with a headline, two buttons and a square photo. |
| Split hero with a plan mini-picker | Headline, lead and two buttons; jar-row photo with a Build your box card (box size, rhythm, example price) overlapping its edge. |
| How it works (lid steps) | Four steps with their numbers in crock-lid circles. |
| Image and text | Photo on the left; kicker, headline, text, checklist and a button on the right. |
| Crock-lid categories | Category icons framed by round crock lids, with labels that link to product category pages. |
| Newsletter band | Dark band with a headline, short text and a sign-up button. |
| Plan picker (box size x rhythm) | Box size, rhythm and first culture as tags, beside a box size x every 2 / 4 / 8 weeks price table (example prices) and a plugin note. |
| Compare plans table | Table that compares the three box sizes row by row (contents and example prices), with tags and a button. |
| Products grid (3 columns) | Heading row with a Shop all button and a three-column product collection (newest first). |
| Promises | Four icon cards on a soft band. |
| Reviews (sample) | Three review cards on a soft band. SAMPLE TEXT: replace with real reviews you may publish. |
| Skip, pause or cancel | Three icon cards with the account path for each action and a subscriptions-plugin note. |
| Starter troubleshooting FAQ | Common starter questions as an accordion, with a placeholder food-safety note. |
Page layouts
Full pages in Patterns → LT Crock: full pages. Create a page, open the inserter and pick one to start from:
- Home: Crock (fermentation club): Demo homepage: split hero with plan mini-picker, crock-lid categories, plan picker, this month's crate, how it works, fermentation calendar, products, skip / pause / cancel, gift a crock, sample reviews and starter troubleshooting.
- About page: About page: intro, brand story, image and text and promises.
- Contact page: Contact page: intro, contact cards and quick answers.
- FAQ & delivery page: FAQ & delivery page: intro, questions, starter troubleshooting, delivery and fees and promises.
- How plans work page: How plans work: intro, compare plans table, plan picker, how it works, skip / pause / cancel, gift a crock and plan questions.
Colour styles
Change the style in Appearance → Editor → Styles (how). LT Crock has 3:
| Style | Main colour |
|---|---|
| Crock (default) | #5B6B2E |
| Brine | #172019 |
| Beet | #7A2C48 |
Fonts
Bundled with the theme (self-hosted, no Google Fonts requests). Change them in Styles → Typography.
| Used for | Font |
|---|---|
| Headings | Sanchez |
| Body text | Sarala |
Store-type notes: Subscription boxes
- The plans in the demo are variable products (for example plan size × frequency), so a customer picks a plan and pays for one box at checkout.
- WooCommerce alone does not take recurring payments. For automatic renewals, skip, pause and cancel in the customer’s account, add a subscriptions plugin and set the plans up as subscription products. The theme’s “how plans work”, skip / pause / cancel and gift sections are page content that you adapt to the plugin you choose.
- Never promise automatic renewals, free cancellation or delivery dates that your set-up does not give.
AI kit (Pro Unlimited)
With the AI kit an assistant can set up your plans as variable products, update this month's crate and the brewing calendar, and rebrand the store in theme.json without breaking the block markup. It follows rules that keep subscriptions-plugin notes, sample labels and food-safety placeholders in place until you confirm the facts.
Example prompt: Set up this LT Crock store for my fermentation club "Jar & Brine" (sample): Small, Regular and Large crates every 2, 4 or 8 weeks at $25, $38 and $56 every 4 weeks, gift runs of 3, 6 and 12 crates, dispatch on Mondays, cut-off Wednesday. Use the Beet style with my brand colour #7A2C48, update the plan picker and plan table, and write the November crate cards.
See AI kit for the files, the prompts and the Abilities.
Before you go live
Everything in the demo is sample content: products, prices, specs, reviews, addresses and opening times. Replace it with your own, or delete it, and follow the going-live checklist. Pro Unlimited: python3 tools/check-theme.py --launch in the theme folder lists every sample left.
Demo photos
The live demo of LT Crock shows real photos; the theme uses its own illustrations and placeholders. The photos are from Pexels, free to use under the Pexels licence (credit is not required, but we thank the photographers):
brew-crate.jpg: photo by Sami Abdullah on Pexelscat-cultures.jpg: photo by Geraud pfeiffer on Pexelscat-gear.jpg: photo by Chung, Chiyoung on Pexelscat-gift-crocks.jpg: photo by Liana Horodetska on Pexelscat-kits.jpg: photo by hello aesthe on Pexelscat-plans.jpg: photo by zeynep on Pexelscrate.jpg: photo by hello aesthe on Pexelscrock-club-crate.jpg: photo by Hanna M on Pexelsfermenting-jars.jpg: photo by William Finn on Pexelsgift-a-crock.jpg: photo by ROMAN ODINTSOV on Pexelsgift.jpg: photo by Raymond Petrik on Pexelshero.jpg: photo by Beatrice B on Pexelshot-sauce-kit.jpg: photo by umberto dez on Pexelsjar-crate.jpg: photo by Antoni Shkraba on Pexelskimchi-kit.jpg: photo by Antoni Shkraba on Pexelskombucha-starter.jpg: photo by Geraud pfeiffer on Pexelsmilk-kefir-grains.jpg: photo by Márcio Carvalho on Pexelspacking.jpg: photo by SHVETS production on Pexelssauerkraut-kit.jpg: photo by Lionel Ntasano on Pexelssourdough-starter.jpg: photo by Bátor Viktória on Pexelsstoneware-crock.jpg: photo by Huu Huynh on Pexelsstory.jpg: photo by hello aesthe on Pexelsswing-top-bottles.jpg: photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexelswater-kefir-grains.jpg: photo by olia danilevich on Pexelsweights-and-lids.jpg: photo by Kristina Snowasp on Pexels
Questions about LT Crock
Does LT Crock renew subscriptions by itself?
No. The theme shows plans, a plan picker and skip / pause / cancel sections, but recurring orders and billing need a WooCommerce subscriptions plugin. Without one, each crate is a one-off order.
How are the plans set up in the demo?
Each plan is a variable product with Box size (Small, Regular, Large) and Frequency (every 2, 4 or 8 weeks) attributes, so customers pick both on the product page.
Can I sell single products next to the plans?
Yes. The demo sells starter cultures, ferment kits and gear as normal products, and gift runs as a prepaid variable product.
Is the food-safety text ready to publish?
No. Troubleshooting answers and food-safety notes are marked placeholders. Replace them with reviewed guidance for your products and your local rules.
Is the theme only for fermentation?
No. The sections suit any subscription box, such as coffee, tea, seeds or craft supplies: rename the crate cards and calendar and swap the lid art.
Does the theme make health claims?
No. The demo copy describes taste, method and brew times only, and the AI rules tell assistants not to add health, gut or probiotic claims.
Ask AI about LT Crock
Ask in your own words. The assistant answers from these docs and links the sections it used.
AI answers can be wrong; check the linked section. Never share passwords or licence keys. Open a ticket