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.

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Thank you, Gabi. We appreciate your work and your good intentions. And Merry Christmas, folks!