WordPress has millions of user worldwide at the time of writing this and growing each day. Millions of people are taking advantage of this free and powerful blogging CMS platform because it’s easy to use and being supported by a team of professionals. If you’ve been on the net for some time you probably noticed different types of websites are using WordPress for their backend. With the growth of WordPress more people are looking for unique and professional looking themes for their site. And this is big opportunity for web designers. Being a freelance web designer you can now offer a new service to clients, and not just to local clients, but also clients from all over the world.

Many web design agencies and freelance web designers are already making WordPress themes to either promote their service or to sell them individually on their website. There are many ways you can make money with WordPress themes. You can offer them on a membership based site and charge a monthly fee for accessing the themes; you can offer them for free and earn by selling encrypted footer links; you can put affiliate links in the themes… the list goes on and on. If you are serious about it you can make a living from this, working from your own home.

But what do you do if you are new to the game, you asked? The best way to get started in the WordPress theme business is to give away free and quality themes. You need to make sure these are so good that most people would charge for them. Make about ten of these top quality themes and put your website link in the footer. Put these on your website and then submit them to theme directories and forums. If your work is good you will get hundreds of links within the first month. You use these starter themes to kick-start your business. They will also benefit you over and over again for a long time, so do spend good amount of time designing them. When you start getting some traffic in and inquires for custom designs then you know you’re ready for the paid themes.

If you are someone who already have a company or personal portfolio website then you can skip this step. However, by giving away free and quality themes can always benefit you in the long run so it’s like a investment to your business. WordPress theme design can add another channel of income to your existing one, and this can really benefit someone who’s got some free time in their hands!