A new amazing update from Envato, they are literally killing them self one decision after the other.
For me this will be a good oportunity to start selling on my website and also all all my plugins here WPbayā¦
How itās possible to f*ck up something as good as Envato beats me. I know times are tough, but the Envato CEO - Hichame Assi - clearly has no idea what heās doing. Heās treating it purely like a business, when Envato was never just a business at its core ā it was 90% pure author passion. Thatās exactly why it became so big. The money came later as a bonus, and it came in abundance.
I know this because Iāve been part of it since it was called FlashDen and we use to sale falshcomponents there so I know th is maketplace, Iāve been part of it since the begining!
This is Envato Marketās closure, stage 2.
Stage 1 was when they did not allow any new author sign up.
If I was still earning my living from Envato, this change would have impacted me quite a lotā¦ somehow I am happy I moved on from Envato, before this change happenedā¦
I am still sorry for the top authors from here: 2026's Best Selling Plugins, Code & Scripts , who still earn their living from Envatoā¦ They are the most impacted from this changeā¦
They also realize now that they need to move onā¦
Iām exclusive author to Envato but I thought about moving my themes to other place or to my website store. But now problem for me is license. If I want to have theme on wordpress org I need GPL license for all themes on my website. I already decided to have that license for one theme but not sure it is good idea for all.
If you can get your t emes on wordpress.org do it, you will get visiblity and that is importantā¦ also it take a lot of time to get a pugin approved in my case about 2-3 weeks to get it approved, I am not sure with themesā¦
Clients will still buy form you if they are serious about it.
Yes, WPBay has a similar licensing like CodeCanyon, we use the split-license. PHP and JS is GPL, while the other parts of the plugin/theme, like CSS, images and other files are proprietary licensed for the author.
This is needed to keep compatibility with WordPress, which is 100% GPL.
Funny thing is that they will make less money with this change. This will be the de facto step for most authors to start selling on their own sites and other makertplace, (I expect a lot of new authors to joihn WPbay) ā exclusivity was the only thing keeping them there.
For me, the decisions made by the CEO are haunting. It would be so simple, even now, to get things back on track for Envato ā they already have everything they need. Instead, this guy seems committed to destroying everything!
I think that they are fully aware that this move will drive top authors awayā¦
They donāt want to handle any more Envatoās Marketplace part and they want to weaken it, until shutting it down will come as a normal measure, with āminimal impactā, as authors already left itā¦
I donāt understand why wordpress org insists commercial themes should be 100% GPL. Split license is very reasonable in my opinion and it protects design while PHP is still GPL.
CodeRevolution, what would be if someone sells product on own site as GPL and here on WPbay with split-license? I guess that wouldnāt be possible?
Nah I donāt think so they know the majority will leave and theer is also too much work to add everything to Elements, banners, text etc and they want to make money at this point no spend moreā¦ it dose not matter anywayā¦ no author will be exclusive anymore soā¦
