XF 2.3 Any ideas for easily adding holiday charm to existing theme?

ArtG

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Anyone have any ideas for easily adding some holiday charm to an existing theme? I'm on a Pixelexit theme and don't have a lot of time for customizations.

I'm thinking more like small visual queues to give members the feeling of the holidays. Think small snow image on toolbar, etc. My members hate the snow fall thing so can't simply use an add-on for that.

Thanks
 
If you have a style that supports multiple backgrounds, add some winter/holiday tree/Yule themed backgrounds and make one the default. Keep the original ones for members who don't like change. You can also make a 'child' theme of your normal theme to contain the holiday-customized version and disable it after the holidays.

Make a version of your logo with holly, snow, or poinsettias on it or a Santa hat on it, or if your logo is round, make it into an ornament. If you have subforum icons you could make icy versions of them.

Ask members to make holiday versions of their avatars with Santa hats or similar.

AI like Gemini/Nano banana is great for quick images ("Make a Christmas themed version of this" et cetera).

Host holiday-themed contests or games for your community.

You could add Christmas themed emojis in the forum titles like the gift box, Christmas tree, snowflake, and gingerbread man.

You could even temporarily change some forum names to holiday versions of them like instead of "General Discussion" and "Marketplace" maybe it's "Fireplace Discussion" and "Holiday Marketplace"
 
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