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Christmas WordPress Theme For Free Download

By Smashing Editorial, December 24th, 2008 in Freebies | 68 Comments | Forum

We may be a little bit late to the Christmas party, but late is usually better than never. In this post we release a very compact, magazine-like theme designed especially for events such Christmas. We hope that the theme may be useful not only for this Christmas, but can also be used in general, for various purposes. This theme was designed by InstantShift as an exclusive Christmas gift for Smashing Magazine readers.

The theme has a 2-column-based layout and, is based on Christmas and holidays and has some fresh appealing funky icons. The PSD source file of the logo image has also been included with the package. This theme design can be used for any project and will be useful especially for event-related projects.

Download the theme for free!

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

full preview (0.4 Mb)
live demo
download the theme (.zip, 0.3 Mb)
download the .psd source file (.zip, 0.1 Mb)
support and feedback

Main features of the theme

Modern and beautiful web typefaces in use.
Tableless design and 100% CSS-based layout.
2 columns of fixed width.
Widget Ready.
XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid.
CSS 2.1 valid.
Delivered with source .PSD file.
Well-commented CSS and theme PHP files for flexible customization.
Multi-browser compatibility. Tested under modern w3c compliant browsers. Firefox 3 , Safari 2 and IE7.

Other preview images

Comments area.

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Happy Christmas, folks!

Published in Freebies, December 24th, 2008
Tags: downloads, free, Graphics, themes, wordpress

1.

Matthew (December 24th, 2008, 12:55 pm)

Nice theme, beautiful! :)
2.

Eddy Munn (December 24th, 2008, 12:55 pm)

Brilliant design!
3.

d3light (December 24th, 2008, 1:01 pm)

nice theme,but can you put a link with the font from logo?
4.

DC (December 24th, 2008, 1:07 pm)

Brilliant theme, nice colors.
5.

manu (December 24th, 2008, 1:18 pm)

Thank you, this theme looks like a premium theme but it is better because you give it to us free and with lots of love, happy Christmas and Peace Smashingmagazine & readers!
6.

Julian (December 24th, 2008, 2:04 pm)

awesome theme…and it’s free!!
thank you again smashing!!
7.

sesebian (December 24th, 2008, 2:27 pm)

Thank you again smashing!
8.

PJ (December 24th, 2008, 3:21 pm)

Simply gorgeous! Merry Christmas, Smashing!
9.

Andy Gongea (December 24th, 2008, 4:36 pm)

Now this is a good design guys. See, wasn’t so hard.
10.

JamieO (December 24th, 2008, 4:55 pm)

Now that’s a lovely little extra to find in my stocking on Christmas Eve! Had it been distributed as true GPL I would have suggested that you make Wordpress.org aware of it.

In discussing Link [wordpress.org], Jane indicated one feature they are thinking of is a new theme to ship with the core release set. It would be both an alternative to Kubrick and one for people who are beginning to look to customize Wordpress A “sandbox” of sorts. Were this GPL it would be a great fit for those and a link in the admin area for .com and .org users would be worth far more visibility over the long-term I imagine.

Just a thought. Merry Christmas!
11.

myows (December 24th, 2008, 5:02 pm)

wow - this is a winner ! congrats to you instantshift
12.

Simon (December 24th, 2008, 5:18 pm)

Love the theme!

Merry Christmas everybody!
13.

Lillan (December 24th, 2008, 6:39 pm)

Beautiful theme =)

Happy Holidays to you all
14.

Sarbartha (December 24th, 2008, 7:10 pm)

Merry Christmas To Smashing Magazine:)
Thanks for sharing another beautiful wordpress theme…
15.

Ben Jacob (December 24th, 2008, 7:13 pm)

Thanks for the Extra Fun :)
16.

mare (December 24th, 2008, 7:23 pm)

thank you for the lovely themes

and shouldn’t you be with your family now ?
17.

Adii (December 25th, 2008, 1:09 am)

I’m all for Christmas goodness and freebies guys, but this theme has drawn a lot of inspiration from our very own Fresh News (http://bit.ly/6uYT) theme. Don’t you think?
18.

b00m (December 25th, 2008, 1:50 am)

wow…nice theme.
19.

Tschai (December 25th, 2008, 2:54 am)

Great theme.
Hmmm. I think I can use it on a site of mine…but without the christmas-stuff!

Thanx a lot!
20.

ThemeLib.com (December 25th, 2008, 4:51 am)

Great theme!
21.

vu (December 25th, 2008, 5:35 am)

very nice, i use it for my page
22.

luc (December 25th, 2008, 5:38 am)

OMG，，sooooooo beautiful！！！
23.

WHAT (December 25th, 2008, 5:49 am)

Where’s the Chanukah theme????

As a designer in television, I can say that we are not amused by your shenanigans….

Actually, working on Xmas at 5am on the news does not amuse us either.
24.

DHLP VII (December 25th, 2008, 8:38 am)

Yayyy…..Thanks alot !
25.

JamieO (December 25th, 2008, 4:57 pm)

@adii You could make that case. You could also make the case that both borrow a lot of style / inspiration from the tuts grouping of Envato sites too.

I’m starting to see why Matt feels the way he doesn about GPL as the derivitive work aspect could apply greatly in these cases. It need not result in legal or social upheval. Merely give credit where credit is due or fork for yourself if you are so inclined :)
26.

www.dsignzmedia.com (December 25th, 2008, 9:45 pm)

Nice Theme….. Thanks a lot!!!!
27.

WordPress8.ORG (December 26th, 2008, 12:40 am)

Nice theme!~
28.

DKumar M. (December 26th, 2008, 12:44 am)

Thanks everyone for all of your comments. After getting number of requests from you guys we decided to release v1.1 soon enough with complete template PSD source file so you also can able to edit this theme for your own use without the Christmas mood.
29.

SiGa (December 26th, 2008, 2:27 am)

That´s a great Christmas gift indeed - it´s cute with the Christmas stuff and without it´s a clean and bright theme and could be used for everything. Many thanks for sharing that, happy holidays and greetings from Austria!
30.

DKumar M. (December 26th, 2008, 4:50 am)

@d3light – Font used for logo is Helvetica ® Rounded Volume Link [www.fonts.com] - Bold Condensed and Neue Helvetica® Complete Family Pack - 67 Medium Condensed Link [www.fonts.com]
31.

andol (December 26th, 2008, 1:50 pm)

wow, i really like it.
32.

david (December 26th, 2008, 8:46 pm)

that’s nice … i probably wouldn’t use it though.

however, that RSS snow globe is very cool. is there any way to get that icon by itself?
33.

Greg Huntoon (December 26th, 2008, 8:46 pm)

What a nice little present to give all of your readers. Seems to be a really nice theme. Something tells me we’re going to see a bunch of this theme start to crop up in the fall as Xmas sites start to launch and ready for the Xmas season.

Happy Holidays!
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DKumar M. (December 27th, 2008, 12:45 am)

@david - Please visit “Smashing Christmas Icon Sets” to get that “RSS snow globe” icon or you can find all the icons information in readme.txt which is included inside theme .zip file.
35.

Edmund Blackadder (December 27th, 2008, 12:00 pm)

Well, I’m going to be honest and say that it looks like a load of disparate stock image library christmas trinkets tacked on to yet another cookie cutter theme. What’s the point?
36.

Sarfraz (December 27th, 2008, 3:10 pm)

Very nice post.

keep smashing…
37.

j (December 27th, 2008, 4:26 pm)

thank you for these appreciate it!!
38.

Tiago (December 27th, 2008, 4:53 pm)

Ouch, what a rip of the FreshNews theme.
39.

Mason Sklut (December 28th, 2008, 3:46 pm)

No Hanukkah WordPress themes? Geez! C’mon!
40.

Ramil (December 30th, 2008, 2:50 am)

The posts and the top navigation looks familiar. Seems very similar to one of the themes at WooThemes, isn’t it?
41.

Curt Simon Harlinghausen (December 30th, 2008, 4:34 am)

Merry Christmas. Genius and Beautiful.

HoHoHo…
42.

Chris W. (December 30th, 2008, 8:27 am)

Nice! A FreshNews ripoff. Just what we needed.
43.

DKumar M. (January 1st, 2009, 2:46 pm)

Hi All,

Thank You for all of your valuable reviews.
Please checkout the fresh bug fixed version Link [www.instantshift.com].

DKumar M.
44.

Sychen (January 4th, 2009, 7:42 pm)

Nice theme, Thanks for the author!
45.

EDi (January 6th, 2009, 6:32 am)

Nice theme, but it should be tested in Opera, because there are few bugs. Opera is almost 3 times more popular than Safari.
46.

melie (January 11th, 2009, 8:19 pm)

this is exactly what i was looking for! I’ve been looking for days on Google for something like this. thanks so much!
47.

loy (January 14th, 2009, 7:46 pm)

Christmas has passed but that won’t prevent me from admiring this theme.
48.

melie (March 15th, 2009, 6:36 pm)

the psd source file doesn’t have the actual web layout :(
49.

Juliana Garcia Sales (March 16th, 2009, 10:01 pm)

oh-oh! the link for the theme is broken :(