The WordPress Theme That Makes $100,000 per Month

It’s possible to make a lot of money with WordPress themes. Two guys on the ThemeForest marketplace have proven that fact by creating one WordPress theme that earns them more than $100,000 per month!

The author ThemeFusion, a partnership between Luke Beck and Muhammad Haris, has completely smashed our monthly author earnings records. For not one, but two months now, they’ve hit over $100,000 in earnings. But what is most amazing, they’ve done it with just one WordPress Theme: Avada.

The Avada theme was initially released in August 2012 and has more than 20,000 users (purchases) to date making the authors close to a million dollars in revenue! Whichever way you look at it, it’s a very impressive achievement.

The Avada WordPress Theme

Avada is a multi-purpose WordPress theme with a mobile ready responsive and retina ready design. The theme has a clean and super flexible design which allows it to be used for virtually any type of website you want to build. To say the premium theme is feature packed would be an understatement. This theme is absolutely loaded and jam packed full of features and options! Whether that’s really a good thing or a bad thing is up to you to decide. It includes an extremely powerful admin options panel, 5 header design, 8 homepage layout options, boxed or wide layouts, unlimited sidebars, unlimited colour options, lots of portfolio options, shortcodes, blog layouts, typography options and so much more. The full list of features is outlined below.

Avada Theme Features

• 100% Fully Responsive – every element of the theme is responsive so it automatically adapts for mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad and Android phones.
• Retina Ready – includes ultra sharp graphics so it looks good on retina displays and all other high resolution screens
• 8 Homepage Layout Options
• Powerful Admin Panel – extremely packed admin panel that allows you to quickly and easily customise the theme
• Unlimited Colours – backend colour picker so you can quickly and easily change the colours throughout the entire theme
• 8 Pre Made Colour Schemes – comes with some pre made colour schemes so you can choose a colour schemes with one click
• Multiple Header Designs – includes 5 different header design to choose from with social icons, search fields, taglines, logos, secondary top menu and more
• Includes Layer Slider – includes a licensed copy of the LayerSlider WordPress plugin which is a responsive slider with WYSIWYG drag and drop builder for your slide content
• Includes Revolution Slider Option – includes a licensed copy of the Revolution Slider WordPress plugin which is a responsive slider with WYSIWYG drag and drop builder for your slide content
• Includes Super Cool FlexSlider Plugin
• Includes Super Sleek Elastic Slider
• Includes ThemeFusion Slider
• Boxed and Wide Layout – choose from a wide or boxed layout and you have the ability to have the boxed background be a custom image, pattern or solid colour
• Custom Post Types – comes with 4 custom post types to make it easy to customise your content. Includes custom types for: image, slideshow, video and audio
• Shortcode Central – includes a large collection of shortcodes so you can easily build your own custom pages (Buttons, Recent News, Recent Work, Pricing Tables, Sliders, Boxes, Icons, Tabs, Toggles, etc.)
• Font Awesome Icon Integration – includes the entire Font Awesome icons set (249+ icons) in 3 different sizes
• Advanced Topography Options – includes more than 500+ Google fonts, standard fonts and the option to upload your own custom fonts. In the theme options you can customise the font size, font family and font colour for every font on the site
• Advanced Blog Options
  • 3 Layouts to choose from; large, medium, full width!
  • 4 post types (video, sideshow, audio, image)
  • Select a premium slider to show on your blog page!
  • Easily order your Blog Posts with awesome Re-Order Plugin
  • Awesome image rollovers with lightbox and link icons!
  • Set Custom Featured Image size per post
  • Auto generated thumbnails
  • Easily specify the number of items per page
  • Pages can have left or right sidebar
  • Tons of options to add or remove meta data, featured images, full or excerpt, etc
• Advanced Portfolio Options
  • 1-4 column portfolio layouts to choose from (more coming soon!)
  • Set up multiple Portfolio Pages
  • Select specific categories for each portfolio, fully customized!
  • Easily order your Portfolio Items with awesome Re-Order Plugin
  • Aweosme image rollovers with lightbox and link icons!
  • Full-Width or Half-Width Detail Page
  • Use Images, Slideshows, & Videos Very Easily!
  • Set Custom Featured Image size per post
  • Auto generated thumbnails
  • Easily specify the number of items per page
  • Automatic pagination
  • Sortable/filterable categories
• Custom Page Templates and Page Options
  • Customize each and every page easily
  • Use one of the 4 premium Sliders on every page
  • Contact Page
  • FAQ Page
  • Sidebar Left or Right using Default Page
  • Full Width
  • Blog Large, Medium or Full Width!
  • Side Navigation
  • Portfolio 1, 2, 3, 4 Columns
  • Built-In 404 Page
• Unlimited Sidebars
  • Create custom sidebars for the various sections of the site
  • Sidebars can be positioned on left or right side
  • Use any of our custom or built in widgets in any sidebar
• Custom Widgets – Twitter, Facebook, Recent Work, Social Links, Advertising etc
• Enable or Disable nearly every element you see
• Multi Site Compatible
• Translation Ready – and includes 8 languages already translated
• Drop down menus
• SEO Base Built In
• Advanced Contact Form
• 23 Layered PSD files for customisation
• Upload custom backgrounds to pages and title bars
• Easy Installation and Setup – with complete set of demo pages
• Extensive Documentation and HD Video Tutorials
• And more

Price: $45

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You can read the full interview with the ThemeFusion guys over on the Envato Notes website.

What do you think about multi-purpose, feature laden themes like Avada? Would you use a hefty theme like that, or do you prefer to use a simpler, lightweight, custom purpose theme?