Why sell WordPress Themes?

WordPress is still the king. With a market share of 40% of the Internet and a developer community keeping with the changes the users ask, you should look into it if you want a passive income.

One of the key features of having a website with WordPress is the flexibility to adapt and customize themes for different purposes, such as blog and e-commerce websites.

Create a portfolio with your themes

If you are like me, you will appoint to the stars; if you fail well, you can still land on the moon.

Then you’ll realize that dreaming big and doing nothing it’s a bad thing. You need to dream small and keep going every day.

Designing and developing themes could improve your skills while you look for a job at a company or as a freelancer and also earn some extra cash, but overall you learn what the clients.

Where to sell WordPress Themes?

You can do it in two ways: In marketplaces like Envato, ThemeForest, and CreativeMarket, although they’re going to charge commissions for each template, it will be easier or relatively easy to sell your themes

Or you can also sell them on your website using Paypal or Stripe, or using platforms like Patreon or Gumroad that will charge you only when you sell an item. So if you don’t sell, you don’t have to pay.

How to sell WordPress Themes?

Research the market

You don’t enter a competition without knowing what you are gonna do. There are so many types of templates you can sell that you can build a career in this. That’s why you need to know which themes and templates are more demanded.

Create themes

You need to design and develop themes; if you don’t know how you could learn with several free resources. Only search for “how to create WordPress themes.”

You need to have several themes designed and coded.

Create documentation

One of the things a good template has is good documentation. Write about how to use your themes and templates with several guides.

Write tutorials and FAQs, too; that way, you could create a blog or wiki for your themes to be indexable by Google and Bing.

Offer a product demo

Put your WordPress themes online for people to check them.

You can’t sell what you can’t show. But also, if you are starting, you must show a lot before selling anything.

Make a free or lite version

You can offer a free or lite version for people to download and test before purchase; some of the pages you should sell as a free version are the Homepage, a Landing Page, and a Contact Page.