{"id":2430,"date":"2019-01-02T10:33:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2021-01-23T23:59:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T04:59:09","slug":"is-wordpress-premium-theme-business-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/is-wordpress-premium-theme-business-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Is WordPress Premium Theme Business Dying?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Premium WordPress themes are a business that has had a bit of an up and down past. There are plenty&nbsp;that have been highly successful, but for many, things have gone downhill a bit since the old days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article below shows you some of the reasons this has happened, but also why the business might still be worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Is everyone getting out of the theme business? In November, 2013 we heard that the theme business at WooThemes was only generating 20% of their revenue. Then, in February, they announced they were stopping the theme subscription club.<br><br>Early this month, we heard that DevPress had sold for $14,000 \u2013 which isn\u2019t much for a theme provider with that history.<br><br>And just recently, we heard another old name in themes \u2013 Press75 \u2013 is also for sale. What you can\u2019t help but notice is the revenue trend that\u2019s sharply negative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read the full article:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/chrislema.com\/premium-theme-business\/\">Is it worth getting into the premium theme business?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is everyone getting out of the theme business? In November, 2013 we heard that the theme business at WooThemes was only generating 20% of their revenue. Then, in February, they announced they were stopping the theme subscription club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12099,"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/12099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}