A step by step guide on the absolute easiest way to create and sell a WordPress Theme 👇
Links
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Timeline
0:00 – Intro
0:49 – Set up the Theme Designer
2:10 – Install 2 plugins
2:45 – Design your theme
8:40 – Export your new theme
10:50 – Sell your theme on Gumroad
13:45 – Cats Cameo
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QUICK WAY TO TEST THIS OUT 👉 https://www.pootlepress.com/wordpress-theme-builder/
Hi Jamie, I was wondering if you have a video about how to put 2 different fonts in a heading with WordPress Gutenberg Blocks. I'd like to have one word with a script font. Thanks!
I am assuming if you decided to sell outside of gumroad, you would have to have a business license to report sales? Is that accurate?
Does this work using blocksy theme for example?
Thanks for this useful video, may i ask you about demo content, how to create, edit, download it to add it to the theme zip file.
Hey Jamie, thanks for the video! I've followed your steps but when exporting, the pages and posts aren't exported as well. Is there any tool to achieve this too?
only show 5 options, no cloning option……
Export your theme
[Export the activated theme with user changes]
Create sibling of your theme
[Create a new theme cloning the activated child theme. The parent theme will be the same as the parent of the currently activated theme. The resulting theme will have all of the assets of the activated theme, none of the assets provided by the parent theme, as well as user changes.]
Overwrite your theme
[Save USER changes as THEME changes and delete the USER changes. Your changes will be saved in the theme on the folder.]
Create blank theme
[Generate a boilerplate "empty" theme inside of this site's themes directory.]
Create a style variation
[Save user changes as a style variation of your theme.]
so, which option should i choose?
Can you do a follow-up video on how to keep the theme updated, etc.?
"Make Money Online: Create and Sell WordPress Themes with No Coding. "
So, you show us how to make and sell wordpress theme by giving us a theme made by you with money, basically youre selling us what you tell us to do 🙂
Pathetic video, exploiting vulnerable people into clicking your affiliate links. This video was no help what so ever.
Hello jamie, great video thanks for helping us, I wanted to ask you for example I use some theme form wordpress and modified the design and style, would i be able to export it and sell it on themeforest ?
Main issue I’d have with selling a theme this way is if a buyer needs support any issues or the theme needs updating I’d have no clue what to do 😅
Very enlightening and easy to follow. I really enjoyed watching how easy the process is. Definitely going to give it a try.
hi thank you does this work with elementor? I am not use to Gutenberg. Also the theme comes with the plugins you installed?
The option to click on the w to view page templates isn't showing on my WordPress now.. i can't get the feature image to go full width i want to learn wordpress but when i can get up and running using other platforms like hostinger website builder or squarespace puts me off WordPress but if i decide to sell designs like in this video sounds like every other platform isn't as passive, upload zip with WordPress. Have you tried showit?
This is really timely and helpful. Thanks! The reason this method and plugin couldn’t be used with kadence themes/blocks as a child theme?
i need you hell how can i crone my full designed site so i can install it in another wordpress without loosing the cotents.
How to you make live preview pages for your theme?
hey, amazing video but i have a problem i dont see the create block theme button can you help me ?
Is a "theme" the same thing as a "website template" please ? Thank you
Can I sell themes without coding on Envato?
Hi great video thank you. What are your thoughts on Kadence? Why Gutenberg over Kadence? Have you built any sites in Kadence or have tutorials on that too? I’m learning all the theme platforms and it’s hard to keep up lol .. which ones are best and why, which ones to avoid, why some builders have preferences over others etc. 🤪
Hey Jamie, thank you for making WordPress easier for all of us.
When creating my own theme from your starter theme: Which license do you use – and how do I handle copyright and giving credit?
Really cooool! How did you generate that cat hero image, btw? Such a cool animation fx.
Thank you so much
Thanks for this Jamie. I make custom themes from scratch for my clients now I'd like to generate some passive income so selling my themes seems the next logical step.
Quite funny that theme designers are getting salty at this video 🙂
I welcome the ability to create and adapt themes like this, because I've bought themes that were 'professionally designed' but then the designer just got bored and dropped support 6 months later, leaving me with the proverbial baby. If I wanted to hack and support my own theme, I'd have built it from scratch (and yes I know how, but I also know how much of a faff that is to do and support).
So having no-code solutions is ace….although we are far from it being 100% perfect yet, but one day I'm hoping to never need to use the theme editor or custom CSS.
Definitely not a "premium" theme
you are super. I am WordPress developer myself. you doing gr8 job. keep it up.
Something I was pondering this week. Really useful stuff and saves me the research. Thank you.
Looks great! They should add an option to upload thumbnail to that theme export page. Or, what if it created one for you on export? That would be cool.
What happens when there is a new WordPress version?
So we are encouraging non technical people to start selling themes ? WordPress is bad enough with everyone creating plugins which need updating every day and breaking everything else. WordPress has become a mess. I’ve lost track on how many plugins I’ve bought which have been buggy and not updated (including yours Jamie I’m afraid). It’s just utter madness. WordPress need to build in decent functionality so you don’t need all this rubbish. Reminds me of the shoe shops in hitch hikers guide to the galaxy.
If my theme has listing feature and has dependency to plugin like acf, what should I do? should I give the demo page inside my theme package? or I should embed the plugin inside my theme??
Didnt see anything about responsive design? Mobile first stuff. As usual I’d love to see far more on mobile stuff, the days of desktop first are numbered these days. 👍