How to start selling Website templates on Envato?

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Hi,
About a week ago I submitted my Website template named VideoTube.
Today I just noticed in Author Dashboard that it just disappeared.
Have no clue if it was accepted or rejected as I didn’t get any response / email or anything.
If it was accepted, where I can see that?
Thanks!

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If it’s vanished and you have had no feedback then it was hard rejected.

Make sure you have notifications activated in your email settings.

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If you want feedback you can share then demo link here

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Thanks charlie, for some reason “Item review notifications” were disabled.
I don’t have a demo / preview link as the template isn’t hosted anywhere yet.
Is it mandatory to get a template accepted?

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Without a working demo it probably wasn’t even reviewed properly

For reference the screenshots look like a complete rip off of YouTube and would need to be made significantly more unique and original

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Ok, a demo must be hosted.
What about uniqueness of this template [link removed] ?
To me it looks like a copy of old Youtube, despite much worse in quality it was happily accepted.

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This was approved in 2018. Standards are evolving and getting higher very fast.

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As @cssninjaStudio says this is a very old item and no the design is not great, but it still looks far less like YouTube than yours

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OK, I take it you (envato) won’t accept a website clone template even if it isn’t a pixel-perfect one. As time passes by it gets harder and harder to guess those “standards”. Thanks for your replies.

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There’s no definitive ‘standards’ beyond certain technical demands for WP themes etc.

Bug generally speaking -

  • best practice coding

  • premium value in terms of features and functionality

  • clean and modern design

  • suitability to a stock marketplace i.e. I know there are (some very well coded) CRM, Crypto etc type files but in seriousness no one responsible is going to use a stock $50 solution to something that touches peoples data, finance etc. there’s a reason why purpose built software and apps are worth 6 or 7 figure amounts.

  • original concept and not another version of an already busy category or a clone of existing sites

  • all documentation etc correctly done

Etc.