Become a Palisade theme author

Grow your studio, your revenue, and your network inside the Palisade community by publishing your original theme designs.

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As a theme author you'll

  • Earn a competitive payout on every theme you sell
  • Put your studio in front of a buying audience
  • Join a vetted community of working designers
  • Trade craft notes in the authors' review circle
  • Go deeper on the Palisade editor and CMS
  • Have fun, and meet the people who build Palisade

Commission structure

78% payout

  • Earn 78% of every theme sale, settled on the 3rd of each month

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Marguerite Osei
Meridian Field / Canada
“The year I picked up Palisade is the year my studio stopped chasing invoices. Eighteen months after I joined the theme author programme, marketplace income covered my whole runway. Between theme sales, the inbound it brings, and the client work that follows, this was the first year I closed six figures — and it is still climbing.”
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Jonas Vermeer
Northlight Collective / Netherlands
“At Northlight our whole goal is to make good structure easy for small teams to reuse. Authoring Palisade themes gave us a way to do exactly that at scale — we get to take real creative swings, ship them to people who need them, and actually get paid for the craft instead of billing it away by the hour.”
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Dele Adeyemi
Ravenspoint Digital / USA
“The author community here is a powerhouse. The review process is detailed, and rightly so — Palisade wants the people setting the bar for the platform to be the ones who care most. I learned more about site architecture from three rounds of review than from four years of client work, and now I build a system once and sell it for years.”
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Inés Carbajal
Cordillera Works / Mexico
“Being a Palisade theme author has been the single best decision our agency made. It pushed us into a vertical we had never worked in, and the team on the other side has been genuinely responsive the whole way. Twenty-three themes later, it is the part of the business I would rebuild first.”
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Tomasz Wieczorek
Obsidian Row / Poland
“Authoring themes has let me help founders and small brands get a serious site up without a six-week build, and it has taught me an enormous amount about industries I would never have touched otherwise. Beyond that, it is an honour to sit in a community that gives such careful, useful feedback on the work.”