WordPress is best known for its active community. Not only more people use it every day, but also more and more developers and designers focus all their work on creating WordPress themes and plugins.
This makes WordPress the best CM in the world. As a result, there are a number of WordPress markets.
If you’ve been using WordPress for a while, you may already be familiar with TheForest & Codecanyon. These are the two biggest marketplaces for WordPress themes and plugins.
But there are other players as well. If you’re looking for alternatives to Themeforest & Codecanyon, you’ve come to the right place.
Here, I will share a list of 9 best Thereforest & Codecananyon alternatives for WordPress users.
Codecanyon & Themeforest Alternatives:
- Templatemonster
- Market Mojo
- Inkhemes
- Creative Market
- The theme
- mythemeshop
- Elegant themes
- Codegrape
So, let’s get started.
- Templatemonster
Template Monster is a site that mainly focuses on providing templates for your site. They also provide plugins and extensions.
They not only provide templates for WordPress, but also for Shopify, Motocms, Joomla, OpenCart, Drupal, Keynote, Must and others.
The prices are almost the same as Themeforest.
You can also get your themes licensed not only for single use but also by GPL.
They have technical support to help you with your purchases available 24/7 for free, which is a huge plus. And it is not available for a limited time, but it is available forever after your purchase, which is not something offered by many companies.
Recently, they introduced a new subscription service called one. It allows you to access over 8,500 Templatemonster items for a monthly subscription fee.
- Market Mojo
Mojo is a marketplace that has many highly rated WordPress themes and plugins. It has more than 1000 themes. The themes range in price from $49 to $59.
One great thing they sell in the marketplace is the services. You can hire anyone to do anything for you related to WordPress, starting from installing it on your site. Usually it costs $49 to install a theme and $99 to install the theme after you have installed WordPress on the site first.
There is also WPLIVE. Instead of waiting for days to get answers for your problems in the WordPress community, and sometimes not getting a solution in the end, WPLIVE is there to solve that problem.
Starting at $29/month, you get fast email support to answer your questions and fix your bugs. And not just any amateur, but real experts who have been doing it for a while.
- Inkhemes
Ink Themes is another great marketplace that features over 2500 WordPress themes, plugins, PHP scripts, etc.
With the wide range of themes available and even better scripts and plugins, you will have everything you need to create your WordPress site.
The price is very affordable. You can access over 2000 Inkthemes themes for only $249. And if you want to buy a single product, you can get it for $79.
And they have an awesome support team that is available 24/7.
- Creative Market
Creative Marketplace is another marketplace that is less known to the WordPress community, but they still have over 1,400 themes on their marketplace even more than Mojo Marketplace.
People not only sell their themes, but they could even sell their photos, fonts, graphics and WordPress plugins, of course.
But the one big drawback is that things are less friendly when you try to browse WordPress themes. They have fewer categories to sort through themes, and you can only sort through the most popular and newest themes.
Other than that, they have a lot of high quality themes.
And their prices vary considerably. They have more than 50 templates under $10, and some are available for even $2, which is cheaper than other marketplaces.
This clearly indicates that they offer different options so you can choose according to your budget.
One thing to note is that Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, also sells themes on their marketplace.
- ThemePalace
Theme Palace is a lesser known marketplace. Despite that, they have a lot of high quality themes.
What surprised me the most were the free themes available, they have many good ones. I haven’t tried any of them, but compared to other sites, they have high quality themes here.
They have a few plugins in their marketplace. Not many, but they’re not bad.
- MyThemeShop
MyThemeShop is not a marketplace where you can sell your themes or plugins. But if you are looking for quality themes or plugins to buy, this is the right place for you.
Their themes allow you to configure almost everything, including the fonts you use, etc. You don’t need plugins to help you with things like floating social media buttons and so on, which can be easily turned on or off depending on your preferences.
And that doesn’t mean that their loading time is much. Their themes are incredibly fast.
Themes cost between $27 and $47, which is very affordable.
You can also get a membership by paying an $87 signup fee and $9 per month thereafter for as long as you want.
You won’t go wrong with any of their themes.
- Elegant Themes
Elegant Themes has made a name for itself in the industry by providing high-quality premium themes at affordable costs. You can even get lifetime access to all the themes at a low price.
It has been available in the industry for over 8 years now, with over 500k customers served, which is a massive feat that few have achieved.
They have 87 themes and 5 plugins available.
You can purchase each one individually, but you could instead get full access to everything for $89 a year or $249 for lifetime access.
When it comes to elegant themes, most people talk about their versatile theme, Divi.
Divi is a versatile tool that helps you customize your site the way you want without touching a single line of code. There are many templates that can help you get started with their drag-and-drop feature, making it easy to customize things and take things to the next level.
- CodeGrape
Code Grape is a marketplace that focuses on providing any code that helps you do anything.
It has over 11,000 scripts and themes.
Can you imagine that number? Yes, 11 THOUSAND scripts and themes to help you find the perfect themes that fit your needs, and scripts to help you customize your theme the way you want.
Given the large number of themes available, not all of them are high quality, but there are many that are. Just avoid the low-end themes offered on this site.
Conclusion
So here are the best alternatives to ThemeForest and CodeCanyon.
Whether you want to buy or sell themes and plugins, you can try these marketplaces.