Kyle Maurer

Christmas lovers can now enjoy the holiday spirit in their WordPress dashboards! Rejoice and be glad!
So for most of the year we can enjoy snippets of a classic jazz tune displayed in our dashboard. But when the holiday season rolls around and you are feeling the Christmas spirit, this little plugin presents a nice alternative.
When activated this plugin checks to make sure Hello Dolly is NOT activated and if that is the case, displays random lyrics from popular Christmas songs in the upper right hand corner of the admin screen.
For further convenience, just in case you forget to deactivate this after the holidays, the plugin will only operate if Christmas is less than 40 days away.

Hello Christmas

Hello Christmas reminds me to find the joy in life.  That there's more to life than plugins and WordPress and work.  That there's probably a party starting soon, and I should enjoy it.
Get this plugin, it'll change your life.



Most valuable plugin in my arsenal

Christmas lovers can now enjoy the holiday spirit in their WordPress dashboards! Rejoice and be glad!

Felix Arntz

This plugin adds a subtle snow fall effect to your website, using the lightweight <code><snow-fall></code> JavaScript web component by <a href="https://www.zachleat.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Zach Leatherman</a>.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.zachleat.com/web/snow-fall" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn more about the <code><snow-fall></code> component</a></li>
<li><a href="https://zachleat.github.io/snow-fall/demo.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo of the <code><snow-fall></code> component</a></li>
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The plugin takes a no-frills, zero-config approach – you simply activate the plugin, and it just works – thanks to the excellent underlying web component implementation. There should be no notable adverse effects on performance, also given the plugin uses the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/03/04/script-modules-in-6-5/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Script Modules API</a> that was introduced in WordPress 6.5.
The plugin respects user preferences for reduced motion, as a best practice for accessibility.
Additional credit: <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/snow-field-and-green-pine-trees-during-daytime-IWenq-4JHqo" rel="nofollow ugc">Banner image by Adam Chang</a>
<h4>License</h4>
The Snow Fall plugin is <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">licensed under the GPLv2 (or later)</a>.
The <code><snow-fall></code> and <code><is-land></code> web components are <a href="https://opensource.org/license/mit" rel="nofollow ugc">licensed under the MIT license</a>.
See their source code on GitHub:
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<li><a href="https://github.com/zachleat/snow-fall" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>zachleat/snow-fall</code></a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/11ty/is-land" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>11ty/is-land</code></a></li>
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Snow Fall

Adds a subtle snow fall effect to your website, using a lightweight web component.

Hello Christmas vs Snow Fall