Bringing the new theme directory under the WordPress “extend” umbrella allowed us to take advantage of all the infrastructure that has already been built up to support WordPress.org. If you’ve browsed through the plugin directory, you’ll feel right at home in the new theme directory.

WordPress Theme Directory.

Since announcing this last night we’ve had a lot of new theme submissions. So far the responses I’ve seen have been very positive and excited about having a new central home for WordPress themes.