Now and then, after the year’s blogging work has been done, you might feel the need to greet your readers with something a little more topical. A WordPress template that allows you to spread good cheer at a seasonal time of year would be perfect for such a job. One such WordPress Theme is New Year 2009.

It is actually very rare to find a seasonal theme that works. This is because it is hard to have a theme that has a purely seasonal feel to it that doesn’t seem over the top or twee. Having a bunch of words on a glittery backdrop is usually the first sign that designers have got it wrong.

New Year 2009 works though. It is a simple two column template, and as such has a sidebar, located on the right hand side of the screen. The look of the template is very seasonal, and while this may put a few people off, it somehow still manages to be sophisticated. That aforementioned sidebar offers full widget customisation, and it is this that lifts it above the other similarly themed templates out there. It means business, and any blogger who uses it can still deliver great custom content.

Every now and then a WordPress Theme comes along that is so highly focused on a particular theme or niche that it cannot be used in any other respect. The WordPress template may be so localised in them and style that no one but the dedicated customer could use it. Happy New Year 2009 is one such theme.

The title says it all really. This is a very seasonal and very bold-looking Christmas and New Year theme. It has a great and striking red and white colour scheme, which depicts an amazing-looking graphic showing reindeers, snow scenes, the lot. This could quite easily be tacked on as a template at the end of the year, as a special treat for your readers.

It is s a two column theme, and has a sidebar on the right hand side of the page. This means that it is widget compliant, and this brings with it a host of functionality that really transforms the blog reader’s experience. If you were to take on a theme that is widget compliant, you have to be sure to enable the widgets in the admin section of your blog.

A one –off, seasonal theme for your blog.