May 11th, 2007 by admin 10,926 Views
Once a web designer has spent many hours in creating a Wordpress theme and he wants it to get downloaded by thousands of people, the first thing to do is to promote it properly. I made a list of Wordpress related websites where you should add your theme. Using this Wordpress theme promotion technique will guarantee hundreds of downloads.
1 ) Wordpress Theme Viewer (registration required)
This is the first site you should submit a Wordpress theme to. It gets tons of targeted visitors a day and will assure your theme hundreds of downloads. Another good thing is that this website will host your themes and create a live demo. On every other Wordpress theme related website that asks for a “Download URL” when you submit a theme, you can add as “Donwload URL” the url given you by themes.wordpress.net.
2 ) Weblogstoolscollection (registration required)
Weblogtoolscollection.com is the most important Wordpress theme related blog with more than 4.000 feed readers that are interested only in Wordpress themes and Wordpress plugins. Once you have written a short message in the “news” section with some information about your Wordpress theme, this will be pubblished after 1-2 days on the main blog page (also on the german and spanish version of Weblogtoolscollection). By submitting your theme to Weblogtoolscollection you will also get it listed on planet.wordpress.org and on Carrero.
3 ) Wordpress theme Codex (registration required)
Adding your newly created themes to Wordpress Codex is a MUST. It uses the wiki technology so, once you have registered, you will be able to add your theme immediately. There are hundreds of themes listed on this page but there are also thousands of people visiting it every day. The theme has to be pubblished in the proper section. If you made a two columns theme, for example, you have to pubblish it in the “two-columns” section. When you are going to design a Wordpress theme, rember to create a Widget-ready one. Why? Because Widget-ready themes get more downloads and you will also be able to add it in the “Widget-ready” section.
4 ) JohnTp Wordpress Blog
JohnTp.com is a very popular Wordpress related blog with over 1.000 feed readers. To add a theme to John’s list you will have to leave a comment on http://www.johntp.com/wp-skins/ . Make sure your comment is written like this:
Theme name:
Theme page:
Theme type:
5 ) Blogflux (registration required)
For a submission to Blogflux you will need to host your theme somewhere else than themes.wordpress.net cause they only accept a “Download URL” that ends in .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, or .rar. The Download url provided by themes.wordpress.net does not have an ending like this.
6 ) ThemesBase (registration required)
The only negative thing about ThemesBase is that they add their own link in your theme. Anyway TemplateBase is a good layout resource (not only Wordpress but also Joomla, Mambo, Xoops and more).
7 ) BloggingThemes
Very fast and simple submission. You only have to upload your .zip file and you are done.
8 ) Wpskins (registration required)
New Wordpress theme related website that it’s growing very fast.
9 ) DigitalPoint (registration required)
Basically you can announce your theme in most of the big forums and DigitalPoint is the one I actually consider the best.
10 ) Wordpress Theme Forum (registration required)
Always announce your theme also on the ufficial Wordpress forum.
Last but not least: if you have a blog, create a post about your Wordpress Theme. This post can be digged and stumbled and you will drive another 50-60 visitors to your theme. Other advantages of creating a own post for each released Wordpress theme are:
- you can add your theme link in the comment you leave at JohnTp.com (Theme page:)
- Blogflux asks for a “theme page” to submit a theme
- your theme will be downloaded directly by your blog readers.
More resources will be added soon 
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Excellent resource you\’ve got here!!! Will definately be back!!!/
Great post
This articled inspired us to create free WP templates as part of our promo efforts.
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