I’m glad to be with Igor Ligay from Stylemix themes today, a developer who can definitely be called “successful” when it comes to the world of selling WordPress themes and plugins. We’ll be quizzing him on his experience selling on ThemeForest, and his more recent venture selling Stylemix plugins from their website using Freemius. Let’s […]
A Maturing Page Builder Market – Interview with Raitis Sevelis, Head of Product at Visual Composer
Hello everyone! Today we are interviewing Raitis Sevelis, the Head of Product at Visual Composer. I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Makijenko, Visual Composer CEO, and Raitis at several WordCamps, including WordCamp Riga, Visual Composer’s hometown, where I had the opportunity to give a crash course on building sustainable plugin and theme business in […]
$25M in Sales on Envato: A Q&A with Markus from ThemeFusion
Recently, ThemeFusion hit the $25 million mark in sales on Envato’s Themeforest marketplace. This is a massive milestone for any company and one that needs to be celebrated. David Scott, Envato’s PR & Communication’s Manager, decided to get to know a little more about this milestone, how they got here, and what’s next. The result is a […]
MooMoo Agency Builds Powerful Relationships with WordPress Plugin Buyers Through Simple Business Moves
Vitalii Kiiko is a passionate and experienced WordPress plugin and theme developer, who recently provided us some great feedback and kindly agreed to share his story. He is a co-founder and works as a back-end developer at both HighSea Studio and MooMoo Web Studio. Vitalii, thank you so much for agreeing to tell us about
Envato March Sale: Have the Aussies Lost Their Damned Minds?!
This is an emergency bulletin to let you know about some last-minute items that Envato have added to the final stages of their Monstrous March sale, some of them best-selling themes and plugins that are rarely discounted. As they don’t often apply discounts so broadly, we felt it was worth letting you know.
“Our Biggest Challenges in Running A WordPress Plugin & Theme Business in 2018” by MotoPress
In this guest post by Alexander Mat, co-founder at MotoPress, he shares and discusses his company’s biggest challenges in today’s saturated and Guten-stirred WordPress business sphere. MotoPress has been financially successful in creating WordPress plugins and themes for small and midsize businesses for quite some time now, so it is interesting to get Alexander’s take […]
Envato Elements Adds WordPress Themes And Plugins – One Price, Unlimited Downloads
If you’re one of Netflix’s 104 million subscribers, you know that paying one fixed price for access to a huge library of content is pretty dang awesome. Rather than purchasing individual shows (expensive!), you just pay $10 per month for the pleasure of gorging yourself on heaps of TV shows and movies. Pretty cool! So […]
Weekly WordPress News: Big Changes at WordPress.com
On August 7th, WordPress.com announced that Business plan users can now install third-party themes and plugins. It’s a pretty big shift and a major opportunity for theme and plugin authors, though Tony Perez has some interesting thoughts on the impact of Automattic’s move on the WordPress hosting ecosystem. There’s also some continued debate on the […]
Weekly WordPress News: 100,000+ .blog domains
This week, Automattic passed a major milestone for its .blog domain acquisition – there are now over 100,000 .blog registrations. Envato is also spoiled for cash, and Automattic shared some National Security Letters. As usual, a bunch of tutorials and resources round out the rest of this week’s news… WORDPRESS NEWS AND ARTICLES Does The […]
Is ThemeForest a Good Place to Sell Your Premium WordPress Theme?
In this article, I’m going to have a thorough look at the most popular theme marketplace for WordPress themes. We’re going to try and understand what are the pros/cons of selling WordPress themes on ThemeForest. If you’re a devoted reader of the Freemius blog this post’s title may ring a bell for you. If it […]