{"id":2515,"date":"2018-12-24T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2021-01-23T23:59:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T04:59:11","slug":"are-themes-still-a-profitable-wordpress-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/are-themes-still-a-profitable-wordpress-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Themes Still a Profitable WordPress Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">WordPress themes have made a lot of money for some of their top creators for quite some time, there&#8217;s no doubt about that. But as the marketplaces change, so can your sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The podcast and article below talk about this further, going into detail about the changing sale space and whether its still profitable to run a WordPress theme based business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Can authors still make money selling WordPress themes? In today&#8217;s episode, Jonathan Atkinson&nbsp;an Envato Exclusive Author, joins Devin and I to discuss the current state of affairs in the WordPress theme marketplace. Atkinson shares some deep insights into Envato&#8217;s recent corporate restructuring, impact of multipurpose themes, and progressive competition in the space.<\/p><p><br>Envato isn\u2019t the only distribution point lacking balance either. I discuss some of the challenges with the freemium-to-premium theme business model that I experience at WordPress.org with Slocum Themes. Top spots are worth a lot of money on WordPress.org and with recent findings of automated downloads knowingly \u2014 or unknowingly \u2014 gaming the rankings, it can be a disheartening experience for authors trying to run a respectable business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If the player in the article is unavailable you can also listen to the episode below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read the full article:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mattreport.com\/selling-wordpress-themes-business\/\">S2 E7: Are WordPress themes a viable business?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can authors still make money selling WordPress themes? In today&#8217;s episode, Jonathan Atkinson an Envato Exclusive Author, joins Devin and I to discuss the current state of affairs in the WordPress theme marketplace. Atkinson shares some deep insights into Envato&#8217;s recent corporate restructuring, impact of multipurpose themes, and progressive competition in the space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2521,"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\/2515"}],"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=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12106,"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/12106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profitpress.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}