Micro Jobs WordPress Theme Review: PremiumPress

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A micro-jobs site sells small, fixed-price services: a logo for $25, a voice-over for $40, a WordPress fix for $60. Fiverr is the model; Upwork is the project-based cousin. The site owner does not do the work. Sellers list gigs, buyers order and pay, the site takes a percentage. The PremiumPress Micro Jobs theme packages that whole loop into a single WordPress theme, which is both its strongest selling point and the source of its biggest limitation.

Every price, term and figure below was read on premiumpress.com on 4 September 2026. The admin screenshots date from a December 2019 walkthrough and are labelled as such.

Price and licence

The number that decides it: what the licence has to earn back

The vendor sells this theme on features. The figure that actually matters is not on its page, because the theme’s business model is a percentage of somebody else’s work, and the licence is only repaid once enough gigs have cleared through your site.

Take the vendor’s own worked example, printed on the product page: a $100 gig, a 20% commission, $20 to you and $80 to the seller. At that rate the $99 licence is repaid by $495 of completed gig sales ($99 ÷ 0.20). Halve the commission to 10% and it needs $990; drop to 5% and it needs $1,980. Now price it in orders rather than volume, using the $25 logo gig the vendor shows in its own demo: at 20% each order pays you $5.00, so the twentieth completed order is the one that clears the licence ($99 ÷ $5.00 = 19.8). At 10% it is the fortieth; at 5%, the eightieth.

That is the honest way to read a marketplace theme. Ninety-nine dollars is not the cost of the project. It is the cheapest line in it, and twenty completed orders is a real recruitment problem, not a software problem.

The same arithmetic reframes the All-Access Pass. The catalogue page lists 22 themes, so $399 works out at $18.14 per theme, and against the $99 single price the pass breaks even at the fifth theme you would actually use (four singles cost $396, five cost $495). The vendor’s own pricing page says buying each theme individually “would exceed $1,500”, which is conservative: 22 themes at $99 is $2,178. Note also that the pricing page says “all 19 themes” while the catalogue page lists 22 theme blocks. Neither number is wrong for the price comparison, but the vendor does not agree with itself.

What the Micro Jobs theme includes

The product page lists the following as built into the theme, with no separate paid add-on required. The finer detail in each item comes from the December 2019 admin walkthrough.

• Gig listings and seller storefronts. Sellers register, build gigs with pricing and extras, and get a profile page with portfolio, ratings and reviews. Buyers search with full AJAX filters by category, price and rating.
• Orders, payments and commissions. Checkout through 30+ gateways including Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, order statuses and history, currency and tax options, and a commission percentage you set once in the admin. To compare gateway options outside the theme, see our guide to WordPress payment gateway plugins.
• Seller memberships and pricing tables. Free and paid seller plans with recurring revenue; the vendor’s demo shows a free tier at three gigs, a “Gold” tier at $19 a month and an “Agency” tier at $49 a month, all of which you set yourself.
• Featured gigs and advertising. Sellers pay to stand out and you keep 100%: featured placement, homepage banners and category top slots, priced by you.
• Work desk and messaging. A members area with its own login where buyer and seller track the order, exchange messages and files, and receive invoices, with email and SMS verification and notifications.
• AI site builder and Elementor templates. An AI site builder, 250+ pre-built marketplace blocks, and gig templates for the free Elementor plugin.
• Reports and dashboard. Sales stats and an admin dashboard charting listings, orders and users. The theme’s own charts are basic; dedicated chart plugins go further if you need to publish numbers. For ad placement, our AdSense-ready themes guide covers the layouts that earn.
• Languages. Multilingual, with 15+ languages built in according to the vendor.

Setup and day-to-day administration

Installation is the standard WordPress upload: Appearance, Themes, Add New, upload the zip, activate, then drop in the licence key, which covers every gig site you own. A one-click demo import fills the site with sample gigs so you can see the order flow before writing a word of your own.

From there a PremiumPress menu appears in the dashboard, and it is this panel rather than the WordPress Customizer where you will spend your time. It groups into design (pick a design, then edit homepage content, logo, header, colours, footer, navigation and breadcrumbs), configuration (company details, user settings, email and SMS, languages, search options, page and button links, payment and currency, social and maps), listings and packages (name a package, set price, duration, image and category limits), membership packages, email and SMS templates, a newsletter tool, the order manager, advertising, and a toolbox with system clean-up, reset and category import. Colours are the one exception, handled under Appearance, Customize, Theme Colors. Adding a gig from the admin side means setting a title, price, category and tags; the front-end listing then follows whichever design is active.

The buyer and seller work desk, screenshot from the December 2019 walkthrough. The current release adds an AI site builder and Elementor gig templates that are not shown here.

Where it loses

• The marketplace is the theme. Gigs, orders, memberships and commissions are theme functionality, not a standalone plugin. Switch themes and the marketplace goes with it. Plugin-based marketplaces let you redesign later without rebuilding the commerce layer; this one does not.
• Ten-day refund on a model that takes months to test. A marketplace needs real sellers before you know whether it works, and no marketplace recruits them in ten days. The guarantee covers installation problems, not whether the business works for you.
• Six months of updates, then $49 every six months. The included period is half a year, so the honest running cost is $99 up front and $98 a year after that if you want to stay current. That is subscription pricing wearing a one-time badge.
• The public changelog has been parked. PremiumPress does publish a version history, which is more than many theme shops manage, but the page is headed “This page is now historical” and its last entry is framework 11.3.1 on 5 December 2025 — 273 days before this reading. New entries have moved to the documentation site, so the one page a buyer is likely to find no longer answers the question. The product page shows no version number at all.
• One changelog for every theme. The version history is framework-wide, not per-theme, so you cannot tell what shipped for Micro Jobs specifically without reading every entry for the occasional line like “added Disputes for Microjobs”.
• Two different prices depending on which button you press. The product page says $99; the Buy button opened a cart at $92.85 with a $50 summer coupon already applied. Good news for a buyer today, but it means the advertised price is not the transacted price, and neither figure is stable.
• Elementor is the practical requirement. The included designs work without it, but reshaping gig pages relies on Elementor, which adds its own weight to every page. Our page builder comparison shows what that costs.
• Everything looks like a PremiumPress site. The designs share one framework and one admin, so sites built on it are recognisable — which matters if your competitor bought the same theme.

Who should buy it, and the alternatives

Micro Jobs suits a founder who wants to test a niche gig marketplace — translators, voice artists, local trades — with real payments in days rather than months, and who is comfortable staying on PremiumPress for as long as the marketplace runs. Against a hosted marketplace builder it wins on economics: the vendor’s own comparison table puts hosted platforms at $29 to $299 a month and notes they take a cut of your sales, while the theme takes none and has no monthly fee. Against a theme-plus-plugin stack it wins on assembly time and loses on flexibility.

It is a poor fit for anyone who wants to own the design layer separately, or who needs project bidding rather than fixed-price gigs; PremiumPress sells a separate Freelancer theme for that. If what you actually need is employers posting vacancies rather than sellers posting services, a job board is a different product, and our job board themes comparison covers that category, PremiumPress’s own Job Board theme included. For selling physical or digital goods from many vendors, see the marketplace themes guide.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does the PremiumPress Micro Jobs theme cost?

The product page lists $99 as a one-time payment with unlimited installs, read on premiumpress.com on 4 September 2026. On that day the vendor’s own Buy button opened a checkout showing the theme at $92.85 with a $50.00 summer discount applied, or $42.85 before local tax. The All-Access Personal Membership is $399 one-time and the Developer Membership is $599. All purchases carry a 10-day money-back guarantee.

Is the Micro Jobs theme a plugin or a theme?

It is a theme. Gig listings, orders, commissions, memberships, the buyer and seller work desk and the payment gateways are all built into the theme rather than supplied by a separate plugin, so the marketplace only works while this theme is active. That is the single biggest trade-off in buying it.

How long do updates and support last on the Micro Jobs theme?

Six months are included with the $99 theme purchase. After that, PremiumPress sells a support and update extension at $49 per six months, with no obligation to renew, and you keep every file you have already downloaded. The All-Access memberships include 12 months instead of 6.

Can I charge sellers a commission with the Micro Jobs theme?

Yes. You set a commission percentage once in the admin and it applies to every completed order; the vendor’s worked example is a $100 gig at 20%, paying you $20 and the seller $80. Paid seller memberships, featured gig placements and advertising slots are additional income streams, and the theme takes no cut of any of them.

Is the Micro Jobs theme still updated?

Yes, though the public record is awkward to follow. PremiumPress publishes a framework-wide changelog whose most recent entry is version 11.3.1, dated 5 December 2025, and the page is now headed “This page is now historical” with newer entries moved to the documentation site. The product page shows no version number, so a buyer cannot confirm the current release from the sales page alone.

Sources: premiumpress.com Micro Jobs theme page, pricing page, premium themes catalogue and changelogs page, plus the 2Checkout cart loaded by the vendor’s own Buy button, all read 4 September 2026; WPNeon admin walkthrough of the theme, December 2019.