Hi, I’m sure this has been discussed before, maybe this question pops up every now and then, but anyway.
I had some experience creating and selling premium themes around 2015-2016, can’t say I made a lot of money, but it was my own fault – poor design, invested too much time in development tons of features instead of having a nice design.
This year I want to try again. I don’t yet have an idea what the theme will be about, I don’t yet know how many things have changed since then (but I realize I will have to do something from scratch instead of reusing everything I’ve created back then).
But main question is – is it worth it? I have abandoned this because
1. ThemeForest had crazy comissions back then, so, from 400$ sales I only received about 80$.
2. Back then the market was oversaturated, a lot of new themes were published every day, most of them barely priced at 20$.
I realize that it might be better to sell them outside of ThemeForest, but they offer an exposure which for me to achieve would require tons of money on marketing, which I don’t have.
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The recent development of WordPress and the block editor opened new opportunities for block plugins and block based themes.
If you decide on themes, you will need to provide an amazing design – since the block based themes focus on just that – the visual design. Everything else is being done through the block editor and full site editing.
The question is never could it be done, but how. You need to build and audience and genuine interest in a relatively saturated market.
Good luck.