5 Years of Sales on ThemeForest – Pros and Cons

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With WordPress being used by over 43.6% of all websites , the space can be very competitive! A big dilemma for many new WordPress theme developers is whether or not they should go out on their own or distribute their work on an already established marketplace. Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Henry Rise, the CEO of ThemeREX , an Elite Author on ThemeForest. He’s going to share with us his first-hand experience of having sold themes on ThemeForest for five years, and some of the pros and cons of the platform. If you’re still contemplating which route to go, we hope this helps you make a more informed decision.

ThemeForest + WordPress
For those who don’t know, ThemeForest is owned by Envato, and it’s an online marketplace where you can buy and sell HTML templates and themes for popular CMS ( content management system ) products like WordPress, Joomla , and Drupal . According to Alexa , they’re in the top 1,000 websites in the world and get millions of visitors every month. They’re definitely azerbaijan phone number data one of the largest marketplaces of its kind.

ThemeForest WordPress
ThemeForest WordPress
At the time of writing this, there are over 10,000 WordPress themes available on ThemeForest. They have what you might call a “they need each other to survive” relationship. According to research by Freemius , while only 28% of themes on ThemeForest are WordPress themes, WordPress themes are driving 80.5% of total revenue . You can buy a theme for literally anything, from a corporate eCommerce theme to a wedding theme. Just for fun, we pulled a screenshot of ThemeForest back in 2008, when they only had 14 WordPress themes.