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Christmas WordPress Theme For Free Download
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.
Comments area.
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- Agregado: A Free Wordpress Theme
- Infinity: A Free Wordpress Theme
- Wordpress.Fun: A Free Wordpress Theme
- Fervens: A Free Wordpress Theme
- Dilectio: A Free Wordpress Theme
- Smashing: A Free Wordpress Theme
Happy Christmas, folks!
The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.
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- 2December 24th, 2008 12:55 pm
Brilliant design!
- 3December 24th, 2008 1:01 pm
nice theme,but can you put a link with the font from logo?
- 4December 24th, 2008 1:07 pm
Brilliant theme, nice colors.
- 5December 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!
- 6December 24th, 2008 2:04 pm
awesome theme…and it’s free!!
thank you again smashing!! - 7December 24th, 2008 2:27 pm
Thank you again smashing!
- 8December 24th, 2008 3:21 pm
Simply gorgeous! Merry Christmas, Smashing!
- 9December 24th, 2008 4:36 pm
Now this is a good design guys. See, wasn’t so hard.
- 10December 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 feature considerations for 2.8, 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!
- 11December 24th, 2008 5:02 pm
wow – this is a winner ! congrats to you instantshift
- 12December 24th, 2008 5:18 pm
Love the theme!
Merry Christmas everybody!
- 13December 24th, 2008 6:39 pm
Beautiful theme =)
Happy Holidays to you all
- 14December 24th, 2008 7:10 pm
Merry Christmas To Smashing Magazine:)
Thanks for sharing another beautiful wordpress theme… - 15December 24th, 2008 7:13 pm
Thanks for the Extra Fun :)
- 16December 24th, 2008 7:23 pm
thank you for the lovely themes
and shouldn’t you be with your family now ?
- 17December 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?
- 18December 25th, 2008 1:50 am
wow…nice theme.
- 19December 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!
- 20December 25th, 2008 4:51 am
Great theme!
- 21December 25th, 2008 5:35 am
very nice, i use it for my page
- 22December 25th, 2008 5:38 am
OMG，，sooooooo beautiful！！！
- 23December 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.
- 24December 25th, 2008 8:38 am
Yayyy…..Thanks alot !
- 25December 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 :)
- 26December 25th, 2008 9:45 pm
Nice Theme….. Thanks a lot!!!!
- 27December 26th, 2008 12:40 am
Nice theme!~
- 28December 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.
- 29December 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!
- 30December 26th, 2008 4:50 am
@d3light – Font used for logo is Helvetica ® Rounded Volume http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/Detail.htm?pid=242669&/cgi-bin/MsmGo.exe?grab_id=0&page_id=2946&query=%22HELVETICA%22&SCOPE=Fonts – Bold Condensed and Neue Helvetica® Complete Family Pack – 67 Medium Condensed http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/Detail.htm?pid=421589&/cgi-bin/MsmGo.exe?grab_id=0&page_id=3431&query=%22HELVETICA%22&SCOPE=Fonts
- 31December 26th, 2008 1:50 pm
wow, i really like it.
- 32December 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?
- 33December 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!
- 34December 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.
- 35December 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?
- 36December 27th, 2008 3:10 pm
Very nice post.
keep smashing…
- 37December 27th, 2008 4:26 pm
thank you for these appreciate it!!
- 38December 27th, 2008 4:53 pm
Ouch, what a rip of the FreshNews theme.
- 39December 28th, 2008 3:46 pm
No Hanukkah WordPress themes? Geez! C’mon!
- 40December 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?
- 41December 30th, 2008 4:34 am
Merry Christmas. Genius and Beautiful.
HoHoHo…
- 42December 30th, 2008 8:27 am
Nice! A FreshNews ripoff. Just what we needed.
- 43January 1st, 2009 2:46 pm
Hi All,
Thank You for all of your valuable reviews.
Please checkout the fresh bug fixed version (v1.1) of “WordPress Christmas Theme”.DKumar M.
- 44January 4th, 2009 7:42 pm
Nice theme, Thanks for the author!
- 45January 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.
- 46January 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!
- 47January 14th, 2009 7:46 pm
Christmas has passed but that won’t prevent me from admiring this theme.
- 48March 15th, 2009 6:36 pm
the psd source file doesn’t have the actual web layout :(
- 49March 16th, 2009 10:01 pm
oh-oh! the link for the theme is broken :(
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Nice theme, beautiful! :)