In today`s post we will learn 8 places to distribute your new wordpress template for maximizing template exposure. Theme authors often choose this type of exposure because it can attract a lot of link juice and visitors in a very little time-frame. Keep in mind that in some places you can try and list your template, and in other places the template just turbo-boost away (with less exposure).

Some other things I must point out are the facts that some gallery owners tend to remove your author URL or insert hidden links inside your theme, so be careful on where you submit. Be shure you are well comfortable with the theme directory or gallery you are submiting to.

Official WordPress Theme Directory
Reaching almost 900 wordpress themes, with 6,345,543 downloads. This is by far the best place to submit your new template. Keep in mind that the featured templates on the directory frontpage get about 2000 to 3000 download hits per day and that translates into possibly 2000 to 3000 possible IBL (inbound links) per day.

The acceptance is not very high, the directory is human edited and your template must be in perfect shape to get accepted.

Weblog Tools Collection
This blog announces new themes and plug-ins to its 11,000+ subscribers. And additionally you can submit wordpress plugins and wordpress news. The review time is a little slow, they review new plugins and news one a week but this is definitely one of the best places to submit your wordpress projects.

They have three separate forums on each topic: template, plugins and news, the beneficial thing is that you can get precious feedback over this improving your submission.

Unmatched Themes template directory
A simple wordpress theme directory site with fast review rate but with no update feature, this means that if your template wasn’t good enough well “it hasn’t been listed, it just didn’t make the cut”.

I recommend submiting to this directory because no hidden links and the templates receive good promotion from the resource, as long as you do not get over excited and overflow with submissions.

Less important but worth a while template directories

Fresheezy
A well developed template directory and good place to submit your template

WPSalon
A wordpress template directory with a nice rating system that is worthwhile

WPThemesFree.com
Directory with a few hundred templates and a decent download rate

WPSkins
Template gallery with demo page feature, decent download rate and a nice search system

Themes-WP.com
A 2558 WordPress Themes directory with cool search system and many features

New places to submit wordpress templates

Do you know other places to distribute new wordpress templates? Or do you own a website where you can post a new wordpress template? Leave a comment and I will post it in the list.