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.
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Happy Christmas, folks!
Matthew
December 24th, 2008 12:55 pmNice theme, beautiful! :)
Eddy Munn
December 24th, 2008 12:55 pmBrilliant design!
d3light
December 24th, 2008 1:01 pmnice theme,but can you put a link with the font from logo?
DC
December 24th, 2008 1:07 pmBrilliant theme, nice colors.
manu
December 24th, 2008 1:18 pmThank 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!
Julian
December 24th, 2008 2:04 pmawesome theme…and it’s free!!
thank you again smashing!!
sesebian
December 24th, 2008 2:27 pmThank you again smashing!
PJ
December 24th, 2008 3:21 pmSimply gorgeous! Merry Christmas, Smashing!
Andy Gongea
December 24th, 2008 4:36 pmNow this is a good design guys. See, wasn’t so hard.
JamieO
December 24th, 2008 4:55 pmNow 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!
myows
December 24th, 2008 5:02 pmwow – this is a winner ! congrats to you instantshift
Simon
December 24th, 2008 5:18 pmLove the theme!
Merry Christmas everybody!
Lillan
December 24th, 2008 6:39 pmBeautiful theme =)
Happy Holidays to you all
Sarbartha
December 24th, 2008 7:10 pmMerry Christmas To Smashing Magazine:)
Thanks for sharing another beautiful wordpress theme…
Ben Jacob
December 24th, 2008 7:13 pmThanks for the Extra Fun :)
mare
December 24th, 2008 7:23 pmthank you for the lovely themes
and shouldn’t you be with your family now ?
Adii
December 25th, 2008 1:09 amI’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?
b00m
December 25th, 2008 1:50 amwow…nice theme.
Tschai
December 25th, 2008 2:54 amGreat theme.
Hmmm. I think I can use it on a site of mine…but without the christmas-stuff!
Thanx a lot!
ThemeLib.com
December 25th, 2008 4:51 amGreat theme!
vu
December 25th, 2008 5:35 amvery nice, i use it for my page
luc
December 25th, 2008 5:38 amOMG，，sooooooo beautiful！！！
WHAT
December 25th, 2008 5:49 amWhere’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.
DHLP VII
December 25th, 2008 8:38 amYayyy…..Thanks alot !
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 :)
WordPress8.ORG
December 26th, 2008 12:40 amNice theme!~
DKumar M.
December 26th, 2008 12:44 amThanks 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.
SiGa
December 26th, 2008 2:27 amThat´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!
DKumar M.
December 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
andol
December 26th, 2008 1:50 pmwow, i really like it.
david
December 26th, 2008 8:46 pmthat’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?
Greg Huntoon
December 26th, 2008 8:46 pmWhat 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!
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.
Edmund Blackadder
December 27th, 2008 12:00 pmWell, 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?
Sarfraz
December 27th, 2008 3:10 pmVery nice post.
keep smashing…
j
December 27th, 2008 4:26 pmthank you for these appreciate it!!
Tiago
December 27th, 2008 4:53 pmOuch, what a rip of the FreshNews theme.
Mason Sklut
December 28th, 2008 3:46 pmNo Hanukkah WordPress themes? Geez! C’mon!
Ramil
December 30th, 2008 2:50 amThe posts and the top navigation looks familiar. Seems very similar to one of the themes at WooThemes, isn’t it?
Curt Simon Harlinghausen
December 30th, 2008 4:34 amMerry Christmas. Genius and Beautiful.
HoHoHo…
Chris W.
December 30th, 2008 8:27 amNice! A FreshNews ripoff. Just what we needed.
DKumar M.
January 1st, 2009 2:46 pmHi All,
Thank You for all of your valuable reviews.
Please checkout the fresh bug fixed version (v1.1) of “WordPress Christmas Theme”.
DKumar M.
Sychen
January 4th, 2009 7:42 pmNice theme, Thanks for the author!
EDi
January 6th, 2009 6:32 amNice theme, but it should be tested in Opera, because there are few bugs. Opera is almost 3 times more popular than Safari.
melie
January 11th, 2009 8:19 pmthis is exactly what i was looking for! I’ve been looking for days on Google for something like this. thanks so much!
loy
January 14th, 2009 7:46 pmChristmas has passed but that won’t prevent me from admiring this theme.
melie
March 15th, 2009 6:36 pmthe psd source file doesn’t have the actual web layout :(
Juliana Garcia Sales
March 16th, 2009 10:01 pmoh-oh! the link for the theme is broken :(
Paul
November 25th, 2009 2:33 pmI just found another nice christmas theme. Preview and download can be found here: http://www.christmaswordpresstheme.com/ – maybe nice to add it to this article or for future content.
Curt
December 1st, 2010 11:58 amI’m trying to add ads to the single post php and can’t get it to work. Any advise?
question
July 18th, 2011 2:15 pm“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.”
vs:
“A link back must be included in the footer or simply just don’t remove the credits from footer.”
in readme.txt
rob
October 4th, 2011 12:30 amHi, nice theme. Thanks. One thing – the side bar. Under the latest WP version, when you place new widget in the sidebar, the sidebar goes tits up and loses its format. Is there also a way to remove blogroll etc, but still maintain the same look with out editing sidebar.php?
Thanks