Holiday WordPress: A Free WordPress Theme

Dec 14 2008 by Jacob Gube | 25 Comments

Tis’ the season to be jolly with Chris Wallace’s new Holiday WordPress theme, jointly released by Designer&Developer and Six Revisions.

Holiday WordPress: Screen shot.

Holiday WordPress is a flexible, professional theme with a two-column layout and a "featured" area for the latest story. Once the holiday is done – don’t fret – the design allows you to easily change the page elements (such as the background) for a less season-specific theme.

Holiday WordPress is released under the open source GNU General Public License.

Some features

A "featured" area that places your current stories at the top of the page.

Featured area

See-through: the content area let’s you slightly see the background, so you can experiment with different backgrounds to get the effect that you’d like.

See-through preview.

Compatible with WordPress 2.7+.

A widgetized sidebar for easy customization.

Preview of Holiday WordPress

Here’s a live demonstration of Holiday WordPress on Chris Wallace’s site:

Live Demo

What’re you waiting for, download the theme already!

Current version

Version 1.1 (ZIP, 221 KB)

About Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace is a Front-End Developer and President of Walmedia, a web design company. Chris offers free WordPress themes and writes about web design and development on his blog, Designer&Developer. Be sure to check out other themes he’s giving away free.

Designer&Developer is in my “Top 20″ group of RSS feeds (favorite blogs I follow) and I highly recommend subscribing to the Designer&Developer RSS feed.

Also, check out AllDevJobs.com a job board for developers and the AllDevJobs.com widget on the sidebar of Six Revision, one of Chris Wallace’s newest projects.

25 Comments

Daisy

December 14th, 2008

I really like this although I think I’d customise it a bit (background would be first to go).

Great theme thanks for sharing!

Jacob Gube

December 14th, 2008

@Daisy: That’s what the intention is, to promote you to switch the background to something when the time comes around. What’s cool is that the body has an opacity to it, so that your background will show through a bit.

Patareco

December 14th, 2008

Thanks for the share!

insic

December 15th, 2008

this is really awesome theme. i love it.

Kaiserlino

December 15th, 2008

Hi…
we have posted about the theme in our blog.
And also if you allow us to translate it, we would be glad.

sparker

December 16th, 2008

whoaa.. really nice indeeeedd !

an

December 16th, 2008

amazing! Thank you very much!

Yerel Seçim

December 16th, 2008

great theme thank you

Matt

December 16th, 2008

Very nice theme! Thanks.

Jacob Gube

December 17th, 2008

@Kaiserlino: That’s something you’d have to take up with Chris: http://www.chris-wallace.com/contact-me/

Ozgur

January 17th, 2009

Very nice design, thank for info.

Shelley Mantei

January 18th, 2009

Great theme – but can the Featured area picture change automatically when the post changes?

Jacob Gube

January 19th, 2009

@Shelley Mantei: It should, let me know if you encounter any problems with it though.

Heeren

January 21st, 2009

nice theme i am using it onn my blog but how to change logo image. is PSD available

sesebian

January 30th, 2009

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Lars

February 20th, 2009

Thanks so much! This one works like a charm and really easy to customize.

Sean

February 27th, 2009

I’m having trouble figuring out how to change the ‘featured’ image on a per-post update. I want to be able to attach an image to each post that it’d use for the ‘featured post’ section, and appear on the single post page.

I have figured a lot of other details out though! I really like the theme.