Christmas Snow – Festive Snowfall Effect

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Christmas Snow adds an elegant falling snow effect to your WordPress site using a lightweight HTML5 Canvas engine. It still works the moment you activate it, and now you can shape every part of it from a friendly settings screen with a live preview.

Live demo: demo.propluginslab.io/christmas-snow-for-wordpress
Documentation: docs.propluginslab.io/christmas-snow-for-wordpress
Support: propluginslab.io/support

Choose classic snowflakes, soft dots, festive emoji or your own image. Set how heavy the snow falls, which way the wind blows, where it appears and exactly which weeks of the year it should run. Everything you change is shown in a preview panel before you save.

Built for real sites

The effect is designed to stay out of the way of your content and your customers:

Sprite based rendering keeps the frame cost flat even at high flake counts
The animation pauses completely while the browser tab is in the background
A separate, lower flake count is used on phones
WooCommerce cart, checkout and account pages are excluded by default
Visitors who ask their device to reduce motion never see the animation
Optional on/off button so visitors can switch the snow off, remembered in their browser
Optional time limit, so the snow falls for a set number of seconds and then gently fades out
The canvas is marked as decorative so screen readers ignore it

Everything you can control

Appearance

Flake type: characters and emoji, soft dots, or a custom image from your media library
Any characters you like, so snowflakes, sparkles, stars or holiday emoji all work
One colour or a mix of up to eight, blended randomly across the flakes
Minimum and maximum flake size
Minimum and maximum opacity
Softness, for a dreamy out of focus look
A depth effect that makes distant flakes smaller, slower and fainter

Motion

Separate flake counts for desktop and mobile, plus the breakpoint between them
Slowest and fastest fall speed
Wind direction, gusts that swing the wind back and forth, and per flake sway
Optional spin, with adjustable speed
Cursor interaction: push flakes away, pull them in, or blow a gentle wind towards the pointer
Settling snow that builds a drift along the bottom of the screen

Where it appears

The entire site, the home page only, or a selection of content types and pages
Always show on specific post or page IDs
Never show on specific IDs
Exclude WooCommerce cart, checkout and account pages
Exclude search results and 404 pages
Target desktop only or mobile only
Hide the snow on small screens, checked in the visitor’s browser so it works with page caching
Show to everyone, only logged in users, or only logged out visitors
Hide the effect from chosen user roles

Seasonal schedule

Turn the snow on and off between two dates
The range repeats every year, so you set it once
Ranges that cross New Year work correctly, for example 1 December to 6 January

Presets

Six one click looks to start from: Gentle Drift, Classic Christmas, Heavy Blizzard, Golden Sparkle, Festive Emoji and Settling Snow. A preset fills in the appearance and motion settings and leaves your display rules and schedule untouched.

Tools

Export your configuration as a JSON file
Import a configuration onto another site
Reset everything back to the defaults
Copy the shortcode straight from the settings screen

Shortcode

Add [christmas_snow] to any page or post to force the snow on there, even where your display rules would normally hide it.

You can override a few settings for that page only:

[christmas_snow density="150" color="#ffd700" size="20" speed="1.5" wind="2"]

Supported attributes are density, color, characters, type, speed, wind, size and zindex.

For developers

Three filters are available:

cwg_ppl_snow_settings filters the resolved settings array
cwg_ppl_snow_should_display filters the final decision about showing the effect
cwg_ppl_snow_config filters the configuration passed to the JavaScript engine

Perfect for:

Christmas and holiday campaigns
WooCommerce stores
Blogs and business websites
Temporary seasonal decoration

External services

The settings screen has a Plugins tab that lists plugins from ProPluginsLab, the team behind Christmas Snow. Out of the box that tab shows a list built into the plugin and nothing is requested from anywhere.

Only if an administrator turns on “Keep the Plugins tab up to date” under Advanced (off by default), the plugin requests the catalogue from https://propluginslab.io/wp-json/cwg-feed/v1/products and the current offer from https://propluginslab.io/wp-json/cwg-feed/v1/promotion once a day with WP-Cron, and when an administrator clicks Refresh on that tab. The request sends the plugin version and your site address in the user agent, nothing else. While that setting is on, product icons on the Plugins tab are loaded from propluginslab.io. Turning the setting off stops the requests and removes the scheduled event. Your visitors never trigger any of this: the front end makes no external requests.

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