Hello Developers,
Ready to become an entrepreneur?

Of course you are. There are thousands of programmers across the world who took the leap from ‘clients’ to ‘community’. If you develop for WordPress, you have one half of a golden ticket already. The platform has become more developer-friendly than ever (thanks Clifford!), the market is growing, and you can supply for ever growing demands.

So, here are seven awesome marketplaces where you can sell your WordPress wares on your way to make it big.

Note: I included Alexa Ranks as a potential factor for a good marketplace. The amount of traffic it receives may or may not be your first priority, but it wouldn’t hurt to know.

1. Envato Market (Code Canyon and Theme Forest)

Envato Market

Alexa Rank: 1.6K

There’s no better place to get attention for your digital work than on Envato Market and its bio-terrain themed subsidiaries Code Canyon (Plugins) and Theme Forest (Themes).

This is the marketplace where a developer-duo became millionaires selling a theme named Avada (we all know the story). The portal receives traffic in the count of millions, and the wall-of-fame of Power Elite Authors (developers who have earned more than a million in sales through their products) is almost entirely made of WordPress programmers.

Yes they charge a hefty commission (anywhere from ½ or 1/3 of earnings depending on your sales and product exclusivity) and have some serious quality control measures. But if even one of your products makes it big on the platform, you are on the fast-track to success.

2. Mojo Marketplace

mojo marketplace

Alexa Rank: 8.6K

This is a pretty hassle-free forum (especially after the legal hocus-pocus of Envato). Mojo Marketplace is straightforward. They charge 50% commission on sales (regardless of exclusivity) and you can start uploading products on a free storefront. The most popular items are WordPress themes (top spot going to a responsive WordPress theme named Highend).

Maybe you have to see it to believe it.

3. Creative Market

creative market

Alexa Rank: 2.5K

This marketplace feels good (to me and about a dozen WordPress-users I asked in an impromptu analysis), especially after the somewhat ‘let’s-talk-business’ vibe you get from Envato and weirdness of Mojo.

Creative Market has stuff for (and from) developers and designer. The popular products featured on homepage are mostly assets for web designers/developers, but they do have a pretty nice repository of WordPress Themes. They charge 30% of every sale you make regardless of exclusivity. They also have a ‘no per-product approval’ policy, so this could be a good place for beginners to test the waters without fear of getting chewed out by a review team repeatedly.

4. ThemeSnap

themesnap

Alexa Rank: 55.4K

Sorry plugin developers; this one’s just for theme authors and designers.

ThemeSnap has about 700 themes and templates in their repository for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, HTML/CSS, and PSD. They can charge anywhere from 25-45% commission (based on amount made in sales) and claim to have a really quick submission process (they call it ‘instant approval’).

Make sure you read the terms thoroughly before becoming an author.

5. WP Eden

wpeden

Alexa Rank: 90K

Yeah they have a marketplace at WP Eden.

It’s focused exclusively on WordPress, so you can sell your themes as well as plugins here. They charge anywhere from 15-20% (based on sales) from exclusive, and 50% commission from all non-exclusive authors. They have a few submission guidelines and insist that you price your products fairly. There’s nothing more I could find out about them: Apparently they have no review system, no filtering in archives, etc.

Give it a go if you must. I am still unsure how I feel about this.

6. Sellfy

sellfy

Alexa Rank: 14.4K

Sellfy is a pretty nice place to sell your digital products.

It requires a free sign up for selling and then you start selling through your dashboard/profile type place. It has a clean interface (no categories or filters though. Come on Sellfy, get crackin’), and you receive payment the instant you make a sale (not on monthly basis like every other marketplace on this list).

They handle hosting, payment processing, and delivery, and only fee they deduct is 5% per transaction (30% if you use Sellfy Promotion Services). As far as I can see there is no submission approval process.

7. Codester

codester

Alexa Rank: 107k

Codester is an online marketplace where developers and designers can buy and sell various ready-to-use web development assets. These include scripts, themes, templates, code snippets, app source codes, plugins and more.

Developers & designers are able to buy ready-to-use components and to drastically reduce development time and cost on their projects.

Don’t rule out: Your own Store

This works seriously great if you have made some name for yourself in the WordPress community (which you can count on now to build trust in your premium products) by authoring a widely-used plugin or theme for free.

Example: Authors of Easy Digital Downloads, Yoast SEO, now sell premium products on their own sites.

You can sell your WordPress themes and plugins on your own WordPress site (does double duty as a portfolio for your services and a store). You need a plugin called Easy Digital Downloads for this.

Make sure you know what you’re doing while pricing and marketing the product, and remember to set up a medium to provide support.

Best Places to Sell Your WordPress Plugins & Themes
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