List of the 9 Best WordPress Themes Affiliate Programs

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1 My Template Storage 30% revenue share. Then, 10% on further purchases.

This white label affiliate program lets you build your own online store selling WordPress themes and plugins.

Several years ago I created a white label web design theme shop with these guys which was very easy to set up.

This is the white label affiliate program for Template Monster. They’ve separated it. I don’t know why.

If you rather just send traffic to a popular marketplace for themes and templates, instead of your own store on your own domain, you should join the Template Monster affiliate program instead.

2 WP Manage Ninja 20% revenue share.

The affiliate program for WP Manage Ninja has a decent commission rate of 20%.

With it, you can promote several premium WordPress plugins, including FluentCRM which is a self-hosted email marketing automation plugin for WordPress. It costs $129/year for a single site license. Then there’s the WP Fluent Forms Pro plugin which is $59/year for the cheapest license. This is a form builder plugin. In addition to several other plugins as well.

WP Mange Ninja also sells premium WordPress themes. In total, there are 5 different themes you can promote. This includes a medical theme, a restaurant theme, a multipurpose theme, a theme for education, researcher & professor-related usage, and a WooCommerce & blogging theme for women.

WP Mange Ninja sells premium WordPress themes. In total, there are 5 different themes you can promote. This includes a medical theme, a restaurant theme, a multipurpose theme, a theme for education, researcher & professor-related usage, and a WooCommerce & blogging theme for women.

3 InkThemes 30% revenue share.

InkThemes has pretty popular marketplace website. They list over 2.300 WordPress themes, close to 300 plugins, as well as close to 300 PHP scripts for sale on their website.

They’ve also got some graphics, like infographic and flyer designs element packs.

All products pay 30% revenue share.

4 Themify 40% revenue share.

Themify is a premium WordPress theme and plugin club. They’ve currently got 42 themes and 12 plugins. They’ve also got a WordPress drag and drop website builder with 25 add-ons.

The pricing is $39 for all of those add-ons. A single theme costs $59 and access to all themes and plugins are just a little more pricey at $89 for a year of access to updates and new themes, add-ons and plugins.

Another option they’ve got is to pay once for full lifetime access. This is currently priced at $249.

One of their most advertised plugins is the Post Type Builder that gives a nice interface with lots of settings for creating custom post types. It is priced at $49.

Unfortunately, they do not offer a recurring affiliate commission for customers that renew their memberships after the initial year. They offer a 60-day cookie.

5 Elegant Themes 50% recurring revenue share.

Elegant Themes has been around for a long time designing great premium WordPress themes. They offer a rather cheap membership that grants access to all of their themes.

Elegant Themes is the web design company that has managed to create the most popular WordPress theme in the world – and gosh do they have competition, so that is really a mark of honor. This is the Divi theme.

Currently, a membership to this site costs $89/year or $249/lifetime. They pay affiliates a handsome 50% recurring revenue share.

6 Creative Market 10% recurring revenue share for a year.

Creative Market is a large marketplace for a lot of web design, photo and other design related items. Not quite as popular as their competitor, Envato Market, though.

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They also have a different commission rate. While Envato Market pays 30% revenue share for the first purchase or deposit, Creative Market pays 10% recurring for a full year. I don’t think there should be too much difference in the total commission you earn with either one of these affiliate programs.

However, Creative Market also offers a subscription based model for customers that want access to hundreds of thousands of assets for a fixed monthly price, with download limits. If you can refer customers to this membership, you’ll get rewarded nicely at $5/mo to $20/mo for up to a year from each customer.

7 My Theme Shop 55% revenue share. 10% 2-tier commission.

My Theme Shop is a well-established WordPress theme shop for single themes and membership site for full access to all ~100 premium themes and ~20 premium plugins. The site has some plugins and themes are available for free.

They state on their website that they’ve got over 650,000 customers.

55% of sales makes this a really high paying affiliate program compared with other web design affiliate programs. Memberships for full access to the themes and plugins are currently priced at $99.47/year and single licenses from $27 to $47.

You can make good money with this affiliate program if you have the right traffic that converts.

8 Envato Market 30% revenue share for first sale or first deposit.

Almost like an affiliate network for web design and other creative work. The Envato Market consists of several marketplaces where people can sell and buy web templates, themes, scripts, video clips, audio clips and much more. These are the go-to sites for many webmasters and web designers to get the best creative work to use for their work.

Theme Forest which I believe is their largest and most well known site has listed 28,009 website templates and themes. In total on the Envato Market there are over 9 million creative works. This includes over 590.000 photos and 83.000 video clips.

You can link directly to any page and product within these marketplaces and be rewarded decently for sending new customers.

Many blogs and other websites online use affiliate programs like this for insipiration to create new content. And also monetizing the content at the same time. Examples of what i mean could be blog posts with titles like “Top 10 fashion blog WordPress themes” with nice screenshots of each theme and deep links to where visitors can learn more about and buy the themes.

9 Template Monster 30% revenue share.

Big on WordPress themes and other web themes and templates. They’ve been around for a long time now and have got a huge selection of WordPress themes with over 2,400 different ones.

They share some stats on their website: 5 million buyers, 1,600 authors, and close to 50,000 products.

Template Monster has an active blog with tips on how to promote their products.

I like that they also pay for returning customers. You’ll get a 10% commission for sales made by returning customers.

They've got a huge selection of WordPress themes with over 2,400 different ones.