Free Christmas and New Year’s Eve WordPress Theme
In this post we release our last freebie for the Christmas and the New Year season: a beautiful Christmas and New Year’s Eve WordPress Theme, designed by Site5 and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme is decorated using Smashing Christmas Icon Set and its main goal is to give a blog a very festive, snowy, New Year’s atmosphere. The theme has no particular requirements, except that the WordPress 2.8.5+ should be installed. As usual, the theme is free to use in private and commerical 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 want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.
- live demo
- large preview (.jpg, 0.6 Mb)
- installation guide and documentation
- download the .zip-package (.zip, 0.4 Mb, including instructions)
- release on Site 5
Features
Here are some of the features of the theme:
- CSS-based layout,
- 2 columns of fixed width,
- widget-ready,
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid,
- multi-browser compatibility: tested on Firefox, Safari , IE7, IE8, Chrome,
- easy to setup, theme options page,
- JQuery Lightbox,
- AJAX-based based contact form,
- Live form e-mail validation.
Sidebar
Footer
Thank you, Gabi. We appreciate your work and your good intentions. And Merry Christmas, folks!
niko
December 21st, 2009 1:53 amVery nice theme! Thanks, SM!
Patrick
December 21st, 2009 1:53 amOh this cute and cool! Thank you!
-Patrick
Design Informer
December 21st, 2009 1:54 amI like this theme. The header illustration is great. I also like the contrast with the dark background and light content area. Nice theme overall! Site5 did a great job.
gabs
December 21st, 2009 2:07 amThanks, SM!
Maicon Sobczak
December 21st, 2009 2:08 amVery beautiful theme. Great header.
Fazai38
December 21st, 2009 2:27 amWOW.. beautiful!!! It’s the best Christmas theme this year!!!
Illusiv
December 21st, 2009 2:53 amNow thats some quality stuff. Nice work on this one!
goldfish300
December 21st, 2009 3:02 amthats very good :D
Michele
December 21st, 2009 3:19 amCool theme…. very good!
tasarhane
December 21st, 2009 3:28 amnice theme.. thanks..
Dianso
December 21st, 2009 4:01 amnice theme…….
mellamo
December 21st, 2009 4:34 amanybody really need a ‘cristmas theme’ ?
Kjell
December 21st, 2009 5:51 amthx, had a parse error installing this theme on localhost.
You have to open /functions.php and change the last rule to :
that should do it. Thx for this free theme
sebastian
December 23rd, 2009 3:04 pmlast rule to what? im getting the same error and don’t know how to bypass it..
Nick
December 24th, 2009 10:33 amYou can just ignore the error, or install the unzipped contents of the theme via FTP as the theme’s instructions indicate and that will bypass it too. I got those same errors when going through wp-admin and uploading…
sebastian
December 24th, 2009 11:44 amNIck: When i activate it i get parse error so ignoring it won’t solve my problem since it is the only thing displaying (Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes\webfolio\functions.php on line 286)… I’ve read that changing to xampp (from wamp) would solve the problem but sadly I get the same error message..
Any ideas?
Michael
December 21st, 2009 5:59 amgreat theme! would there be any problem if i were to convert it into a drupal theme??
Michael
December 21st, 2009 5:07 pmhaha…already finished it on the blog my wife and i use. looks great! thanks again!
bs.kishore
December 21st, 2009 6:15 amvery cute looking……….thanks, SM !
Lucas Cobb
December 21st, 2009 6:24 amGreat work, very readable and easy on the eyes. Perfect for people who change their themes with the seasons.
Cheryl D Wise
December 21st, 2009 6:50 amReally lovely design, love the header illustration.
Jake
December 21st, 2009 7:26 amAwesome. Wish I had this earlier than 4 days before Christmas though… ;)
Seb
December 21st, 2009 9:08 amVery nice theme. Great quality, as usual. Thanks a lot SM for this giveaway! Agree with Jake…I would have love to get this theme a couples of days earlier. I’ve added the theme to this WordPress Christmas themes selection, along with last year SM’s Christmas theme from InstantShift. Though it might be useful to some.
Keep up the good work Smashing!
nik
December 21st, 2009 9:32 amUseful things as usual. A bit late, too.
VIP
December 21st, 2009 11:31 amThanks alottttt SM..
YOU ROCKS!!!
ViruS
December 21st, 2009 12:04 pmOh pretty cool theme, I’m using it now for my blog, and looks really cute, thanks ^^
liz
December 21st, 2009 5:48 pmGreat theme! Will be using it for the next few weeks.
Akshay
December 21st, 2009 10:18 pmin this theme there is no link of older posts in the page bottom
so please tell how to add that
gabs
December 21st, 2009 11:21 pmJust add the plugin that comes in the zip file.
www.themed.co.cc
December 21st, 2009 10:21 pmoh…. very fantastic theme..,, fresh, elegant, and colourfull.
thank’s very much…….
from haitsam.
jacksuc
December 21st, 2009 10:44 pmgood. i like it!
Engelbert
December 21st, 2009 11:56 pmThis is sooo cute. Thank you so much!
Aks
December 22nd, 2009 2:06 pmOlder posts links are not coming in footer pls tell wat to do ?
JP
December 23rd, 2009 11:32 pmGetting a parse error like others. no one has posted a solution. Says theres an error in functions.php
aBlogz
December 24th, 2009 12:21 amlike this !
Thanks a lot !
shalu
December 24th, 2009 1:41 amhappy new year
depthsky
December 25th, 2009 5:12 amoh ! it is so cool~~~
Donald Zornes
March 4th, 2010 2:36 pmI love the theme’s, and the backgrounds.
Frank
September 18th, 2010 3:52 pmHi, theme seems great! But cannot get it to install properly. I’m using WP 3.0. Any idea what the problem is? These are the errors i get on install:
Warning: fopen(/public_html/mydomain.org/wp-content/themes/wp_christmas_v1.1/style.css) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /public_html/mydomain.org/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4165
Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /public_html/mydomain.org/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4168
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /public_html/mydomain.org/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4171
Thank you very much!
Mike
October 12th, 2010 4:19 amCannot figure out how to get the thumbnail to appear on the front index next to posts. Anyone any idea please…
Thx
Capi Etheriel
November 30th, 2010 5:57 amIs the theme licensed under gpl? if it is, why isn’t it declared anywhere on site5.net?
Kunnu Singh
December 6th, 2010 8:59 amvery nice template :)
thanks for sharing, also I found more themes