Comments on: Theme Forest – Thoughts And Opinions

By: John

John — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:49:44 +0000

Theme Forests business style is the same as that of the big corporations. The decide the price of the theme and they get 75% of the themes price, paying the developer only 25% of its price, while the theme developer provides also the support and everything.

This is totally getting advantage of people from poor countries. Do you see any difference between them and the blood sucking corporations? Yes, they have a better style of doing that same thing.
I wonder why those theme developers don’t sell the themes on their own, while most of them have websites.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:47:23 +0000

If I’m making a custom WP theme for a client I charge an awful lot more than the top price listed on Theme Forest. That price would cover installation, setting up plugins, testing and a charge for client pain in the ass-ness. So it’s much more of a package. However it would be interesting to put up a couple of themes on Theme Forest and see how they would do over time. It could be a small residual income working away in the background if you sold a lot. Do you know if you can put in a small link in the footer to yourself?

By: Nir@ Belt Buckles

Nir@ Belt Buckles — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:24:25 +0000

That is really not bad price. For someone that gets freelancer to do his work there still room for profit specially if selling large quantities.

By: kailoon

kailoon — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:16:21 +0000

I think the team have take this into consideration as well. So, I believe the price may go higher in the future depend on the performance of the site.

For me, it is hard to sell a theme on my own site. Simple reason, not enough of exposure. Marketing is something that I can’t handle by myself while I need to put effort in developing new theme. So, it may be great for some theme developer for the beginning. Then only decide whether continue to upload on TF or your own site. It is all up to you

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By: Erika

Erika — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:21:25 +0000

I’m against templating websites, but I’m for capitalism. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

Eden is now Envato, so perhaps you might update your post?

I couldn’t see myself selling my templates any other way specifically for the reasons you listed. I’d rather go the route of WPDesigner and build my own hype and then go into selling my templates. The payoff is much sweeter in the end, IMO.

By: Youri.

Youri. — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:50:32 +0000

@Travis : Since you’re selling the theme instead of giving it away I think you can be assured that whatever is in the footer text will be replaced most of the time…

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:40:28 +0000

@Travis – I don’t know for sure. I’ll be sure to check it out on launch day.

@Chris – I think you’re right. This will probably be a big determining factor in how many developers TF manages to get involved.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:38:12 +0000

The commission and price range is definitely the biggest problem, I imagine it will work like their Flashden site, but what specifically determines if a theme is worth $5 or $75.

I couldn’t imagine putting time into a theme and then only making $1.25 each sell.

By: Travis Vocino

Travis Vocino — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:36:08 +0000

Do they actually change the footer text with credit to Theme Forest or whatever instead of the author?