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Christmas Snow<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n The effect is designed to stay out of the way of your content and your customers:<\/p>\n\n Appearance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Motion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Where it appears<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Seasonal schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Presets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Add You can override a few settings for that page only:<\/p>\n\n Supported attributes are Three filters are available:<\/p>\n\n Perfect for:<\/p>\n\n The settings screen has a Plugins tab that lists plugins from ProPluginsLab, the team behind Christmas Snow. To keep that list current, the plugin requests the catalogue from ProPluginsLab terms and conditions<\/a> and privacy policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n Free on WordPress.org:<\/p>\n\n Pro plugins at propluginslab.io<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n The snow starts working straight away with sensible defaults, so step 5 is optional.<\/p>\n\n No. The plugin works the moment you activate it, exactly as it always has. The settings are there when you want them.<\/p><\/dd>\n Under Settings > Christmas Snow<\/strong>, or by clicking Settings next to the plugin on the Plugins page.<\/p><\/dd>\n The script is small, loads in the footer and defers. Rendering uses cached sprites rather than redrawing each flake from scratch, and the animation stops entirely when the tab is not visible. If you want to be extra careful, lower the flake count, lower the frame rate limit under Advanced, or switch the flake type to Soft dots.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Phones get their own, lower flake count, which you can adjust. You can also hide the effect on mobile entirely under Display Rules.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. If a visitor has enabled Reduced Motion on their device, the animation does not run at all. The canvas is also marked as decorative so assistive technology ignores it. You can turn this behaviour off, though leaving it on is strongly recommended.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Cart, checkout and account pages are excluded by default so nothing decorative sits between a customer and the pay button. You can change that under Display Rules if you want to.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, in two ways. Either set Show on to \"Selected content types and pages\" and list the page ID, or turn on \"Only load where the shortcode is used\" under Advanced and drop Yes. Set the flake type to \"Characters and emoji\" and type any characters you like, separated by spaces. Or set it to \"Custom image\" and pick a small transparent PNG or SVG from your media library.<\/p><\/dd>\n Lower the Layer (z-index) value under General until the snow sits behind that element.<\/p><\/dd>\n Open the Schedule tab, turn on \"Only show during a date range\" and set your start and end dates. The range repeats every year, and ranges that cross New Year are handled correctly.<\/p><\/dd>\n If you are an administrator, use the snowflake item in the toolbar. It shows whether the snow is running on that page and lets you preview it with or without the effect.<\/p><\/dd>\n Switch off \"Enable snowfall\" under General. Deactivating the plugin also works and keeps your settings for next year.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Turn on \"Let visitors turn the snow off\" under General. A small button appears in the bottom left corner, and the visitor's choice is remembered in their own browser. Nothing is stored on your site.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. Set \"Stop the snow after\" under General to the number of seconds you want. When the time is up no new flakes appear and the snow fades out. Leave it at 0 to keep it snowing.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Christmas Snow is completely free, with no locked features. The settings screen shows a small, dismissible banner about ProPluginsLab's WooCommerce plugins, and a Plugins tab listing them.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Settings are kept on deactivation and across updates. They are only removed if you delete the plugin.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\n This is a large release. Everything that used to be fixed is now yours to control, and the effect itself has been rewritten.<\/p>\n\n New: settings screen<\/strong><\/p>\n\n New: appearance options<\/strong><\/p>\n\n New: motion options<\/strong><\/p>\n\n New: display rules<\/strong><\/p>\n\n New: scheduling<\/strong><\/p>\n\n New: Plugins tab<\/strong><\/p>\n\n New: control and tools<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Improved: the snowfall engine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Improved: everything else<\/strong><\/p>\n\nBuilt for real sites<\/h4>\n\n
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[christmas_snow]<\/code> to any page or post to force the snow on there, even where your display rules would normally hide it.<\/p>\n\n[christmas_snow density=\"150\" color=\"#ffd700\" size=\"20\" speed=\"1.5\" wind=\"2\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\ndensity<\/code>, color<\/code>, characters<\/code>, type<\/code>, speed<\/code>, wind<\/code>, size<\/code> and zindex<\/code>.<\/p>\n\nFor developers<\/h4>\n\n
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cwg_ppl_snow_settings<\/code> filters the resolved settings array<\/li>\ncwg_ppl_snow_should_display<\/code> filters the final decision about showing the effect<\/li>\ncwg_ppl_snow_config<\/code> filters the configuration passed to the JavaScript engine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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https:\/\/propluginslab.io\/wp-json\/cwg-feed\/v1\/products<\/code> and the current offer from https:\/\/propluginslab.io\/wp-json\/cwg-feed\/v1\/promotion<\/code> 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. When the Plugins tab is opened, product icons are loaded from propluginslab.io. Your visitors never trigger any of this: the front end makes no external requests.<\/p>\n\nMore plugins from ProPluginsLab<\/h3>\n\n
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Do I have to configure anything?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Where are the settings?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will this slow my site down?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it work on mobile?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it respect accessibility settings?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I use it with WooCommerce?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I show snow on only one page?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
[christmas_snow]<\/code> onto that page.<\/p><\/dd>\nCan I use emoji or my own image instead of snowflakes?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
The snow covers my sticky header or a popup. How do I fix it?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How do I make the snow appear only in December?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How do I check what a page looks like without snow?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How do I turn the effect off?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can visitors turn the snow off?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can the snow stop after a few seconds?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is there a Pro version?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will I lose my settings when I update or deactivate?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
2.1.0 2026-09-22<\/h4>\n\n
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[christmas_snow]<\/code> shortcode with per page overrides<\/li>\ncwg_ppl_snow_settings<\/code>, cwg_ppl_snow_should_display<\/code> and cwg_ppl_snow_config<\/code> filters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
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