Holiday Themes

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  miriel · Member · Dec 8, 2006 at 8:28 pm

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  Could you possibly add some holiday themes to chose from? There are some really nice ones out there, and it would be nice to get into the Holiday mood on our blogs.
  For example:
  http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/1-column/27/v4nychristmas5-10/
  would rock!

  Thanks

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  timethief · Member · Dec 8, 2006 at 8:38 pm

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  @miriel
  Although there may be some attractive holiday themes out there, I’m wondering how many would be already coded for use on a wordpress multi-user blogging platform and thinking the answer may be zero.

  We have a pink sticky at the head of the forum “please read me first before posting” and it’s an interesting read because it lays out the differences between wordpress.com and wordpress.org. The two run on completely different software and any themes you see there must be re-coded to work on wordpress.com so the vast and overwhelming majority are not available here
  http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=3700&replies=1

  That being said I wouldn’t be surprised if the wordpress.com team surprised us with one but I won’t be holding my breath.

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  knoizki · Member · Dec 9, 2006 at 10:53 am

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  Best is to just change a “holiday-looking” header image that would match the theme you are using like what I’ve done in my blog.

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  mbd1974 · Member · Dec 9, 2006 at 2:32 pm

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  Just change your header image on the theme that you are using to something that looks cheerful… like I did on mine!

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  wank · Member · Dec 9, 2006 at 3:28 pm

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  If there’s anyone around who’s bought the custom CSS upgrade, I just threw up a holiday Sandbox stylesheet here. But, yes, changing the header is probably sufficient for most people.

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  cornell · Member · Dec 9, 2006 at 6:20 pm

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  Nice work wank, looks good. :)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 9, 2006 at 6:21 pm

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  I’ll second that. :)

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  engtech · Member · Dec 9, 2006 at 10:33 pm

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  I’ve changed my custom CSS so that I put up a horrid christmas background on posts tagged christmas :)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 9, 2006 at 11:59 pm

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  Yup those little hats and canes are gawd awful ugly looking, for sure, for sure. I’m surprised the cat went along with your misguided scheme. After all the twinkling Christmas tree next to him was “cute”. :D

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  drmike · Member · Dec 10, 2006 at 6:53 pm

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  I thinking the best bet would be to change the header image to something more holiday oriented. That would probably be the best bet.

  I’m sure every new theme added generates a large number of support requests. I can’t see staff sticking in a couple of holiday themes just to see Mark keel over in emails.

  Plus staff would probably have to keep PC and add in the Flying Spaghetti Monster‘s birthday. :)

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  timethief · Member · Dec 15, 2006 at 9:24 pm

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  My thanks to admin for providing a holiday theme – iceburgg