How To Make Money By Creating Wordpress Themes.
Hello Creadivs,
When it comes to making money online I still consider myself a noob because I haven’t achieved an income that allows me to work solely online. While trying to establish myself as an internet entrepreneur I am working toward diversifying my income streams in order to create an online portfolio that will allow me to earn as much as possible.
With that in mind I took on the challenge of creating a free Wordpress theme called wptone - Free Adsense Ready Wordpress Theme that I have introduced you too a few times already. To date wptone has been my most successful online venture grossing me a profit of $109.00 plus some incalculable Adsense revenues because I have a few adsense sites up am I am not properly using channels, but this is a number I am very happy with.
My new found success as a wordpress theme developer has inspired a new series of blog posts on creadiv called How To Make Money Online By Creating Wordpress Themes.
How To Make Money Online By Creating Wordpress Themes.
- Part 1 - Develop & Sell A Premium Theme
- Part 2 - Develop & Sell Sponsorship On A Free Theme
- Part 3 - Develop An Adsense Ready Wordpress Theme
- Part 4 - Super Secret Method Yet To Be Revealed
What To Expect From This Series
I am going to explain how you can use each of the aforementioned items to make you money online. I will be giving you some tips and tricks to improve your themes and what in my opinion is the best method of making money from creating a Wordpress Theme.
I am sure you noticed the super secret method yet to be revealed. The secret of this method is one that I don’t think it has been publicly tried or tested yet so I don’t want to reveal it until I have proven that it works. While this series is being published I will be creating my second free Wordpress theme to be publicly released next month in which I will be testing this method. So let us hope that in my trials I find a new method of making money from developing Wordpress themes.
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20 Comments
Blog Comment Blueprint on November 14th, 2008
I think that is for future posts in the series Simon 
Simon on November 15th, 2008
Aww… I hate being impatient…
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tri fold brochure on November 15th, 2008
I still have one doubt, Did free wordpress blog has the option of using google adsense.
I too want to earn money through my wordpress blog.
wpthemes 4 free on November 15th, 2008
Hi, great themes, please feel free to submit your themes to our directory at http://www.wpthemes4free.com
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Where Did Soccer Originate on November 16th, 2008
I really can’t wait to find out about adsense earnings through free wp themes - all I thought they were good for is backlinks
Danny Cooper on November 16th, 2008
I’ve been working closely with Adam on this project, trust me when I say he has some good stuff instore for you guys.
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Dennis Edell on November 16th, 2008
Is it possible for one to make money if he/she has another actually create the theme lol. I doubt I could do it.
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Ajith Edassery on November 16th, 2008
The AdSense ready trick still works?
Btw, somebody above asked about free wordpress blog. I thought he was talking about wordpress.com blogs that doesn’t support PPC ads like AdSense.
Looking forward to the series…
Cheers, Ajith
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Hussein on November 17th, 2008
I don’t recommend selling sponsored links in your themes as it might affect the number of downloads and usage of theme. Bloggers often hate themes with too much sponsored links (I’m one of those). I believe there are several more ways to earn money from releasing themes.
Husseins last blog post..WordPress Theme Weekly: WPTone
Dan on November 17th, 2008
Wow, can’t wait to see what you have in store for us Adam! Sounds awesome! Maybe I can get back to designing websites and make a nice wordpress theme based on your guide…
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eric tan on November 17th, 2008
I see you are in the running to win LinkersBlog’s Contest… I joined too… just in case I win here’s another chance for you to win :
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Dennis Edell on November 17th, 2008
I also just recently read somewhere that Google seriously frowns on the theme links being sold.
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ZK@Internet Marketing Blog on November 18th, 2008
It takes lot of traffic for adsense to generate $109, assuming that the wordpress niche is money making online , internet marketing the per click rate is in cents…you much be having very high traffic to make that kind of money. Any learnigs on this will help
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Salwa on November 19th, 2008
Adsense really take too much time, and one can’t really rely on this, i believe you got a brilliant idea by creating new themes, it will really work as everyone would like to have something different.
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Normal Joe on November 19th, 2008
Nice idea to document your progress with the free themes man, I’m happy to see them getting some lovin!
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IronBlogger - Blogging Tips and Tricks on November 23rd, 2008
Making money as a WordPress designer ehhh??? I am not a designer at all but I’m sure theres a few things everyone can learn from a series like this.
BTW I really like you first blog design, if you work really hard you migh be able to get somewhere by doing this. Congrats on the $109 and all of your AdSense earnings. This can be very inspirational at first.
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Blue Behind Bars on December 1st, 2008
Create a wordpress theme??? Surely you jest!
I’m still trying to learn to use a wordpress theme!! LMAO…NOT!!
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Stephen Canning on December 23rd, 2008
Great sharing. I’m subscribing to your site now, thanks.
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Simon on November 14th, 2008
So did your $109 come from link sponsorship sales - care to explain more about the adsense earnings from WP themes?
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