How to find free WordPress themes that are high quality

I love WordPress. I use it all the time. Whenever someone asks me what they should use to build their site I recommend WordPress. There are several reasons for this.

• WordPress is free
• WordPress is fast
• WordPress is easy to use
• WordPress is open source so there are 1000s of developers around the world building plugins & themes
• WordPress is very flexible, there are some amazing sites out there built on WordPress and most people don’t even realize it. A great example of this is Mint.com.

Here are the resources I turn to when I’m looking for a high quality WordPress theme:

• 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes (Smashing)
• 83 Beautiful WordPress themes you probably haven’t seen (Smashing)
• 21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant WordPress Themes (Smashing)
• 10 Fresh, Elegant and Clean WordPress Themes (Smashing)
• 13 WordPress Magazine Themes
• Design Disease has some amazing Free WordPress Themes (at the time of this writing they also created the theme on this website)
• Six Shooter Media
• Not free but worth checking out: Theme Forest
• Also not free but if you build a lot of WordPress sites this would be worth owning: Artisteer Theme Creator

If you’d like to recommend others please do so in the comments below.