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Colorlib is a small distributed team specialized in WordPress theme development. Currently it has become among the largest WordPress related resources and we are looking for developers to help us grow.

For more information about these positions you can read on our website: https://colorlib.com/wp/jobs/

You can turn everything into a business as long as you have a reasonable business plan in place and know that users are willing to pay for some extra features or service.

Story time: 2 years ago I started to learn frontend web development from various online courses. I had zero technical background and no intention to make money. Within few months I learned enough to create my first WordPress theme. It was terrible but it worked . I made few more themes and never did anything with them. I made like 6 themes and just deleted theme few months down the road. Then I decided to submit one theme on WordPress.org just to see if it gets approved. Themes goes through review and someone would evaluate my code and that's what I was after. Long story short my themes now have been downloaded over 1,000,000 times and I have turned it into 6 figure a year business.

While I haven't sold a single theme yet, apparently you can recommend hosting and premium plugins that goes along with your themes and make a decent income.

For those interested you can visit site at: https://colorlib.com/

> I have turned it into 6 figure a year business.

> While I haven't sold a single theme yet

What?

Yes, that's correct :) Most income comes from advertising, paid reviews, sponsorship, affiliate products (hosting, plugins, premium themes from other developers).

As he said, he finances via direct advertisement. Not by selling products, but by recommending additional features.

He has very popular themes that he gives away, and then advertises for paid products on his theme's download pages (presumably).

sponsorships

I still do not understand how 1M free theme downloads translate into 6 figure business.

Does that mean every 10th downloader actually gets you a comission of $1 on some affiliate purchase or does that mean that every 100th downloader buys something generating $10 in affiliate income?

I don't know why but I feel theme is not the most typical open source project.

I am building free WordPress themes just to get some basic knowledge about web development and hopefully will move on to something bigger and bolder in near future.

You can follow my journey on http://colorlib.com

I am using OS X because of the built in terminal and Retina display and until recently I was using Windows. I don't see how Mac is better.

There is no such thing as the best OS there is only one that suits your needs. Anyone who says Win or Mac or Linux sucks are just dumb.

Apple made this decision just to dump Google and try to gain more control. Apple dind't want to use OpenStreetMap because its open source solution and Apple never uses open source solution. Yeah, its iOS and OS X is based on Linux (sort of) but they will never tell this to anyone. iOS 6 Maps sucks just like the App Store on the New iPad. Maybe it is just me but I found it very, very slow. It's better on iPhone

I've said this a few times (as have others) but it seems it could do with repeating.

Unless you've got inside information we have no idea who dumped who, all we know is the contract expired and it wasn't renewed. Google might have applied financial pressure, Apple might have thrown their toys out of the pram. It's unknown.

OSX was based on code from FreeBSD and NetBSD and not Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X#History and Apple has used plenty of open source solutions (gcc, samba come to mind ). Not to mention putting money and resources behind opensource projects such as llvm and webkit.

I do believe that dumping Google was a strategic decision and I'm perfectly O.K. with that. The world is full of products that are shaped more with business decisions that technical ones. What remains to be seen however is how quickly they will address the shortcomings of their map data.

> Apple dind't want to use OpenStreetMap because its open source solution and Apple never uses open source solution.

Riiiight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

I guess there will not going to be a hard coding for first graders but some basic introduction to it. Can't imagine any first grader to code an app. Will see once more information about the learning process will be available.