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Want to get into the holiday spirit? Perhaps you fondly remember the nostalgic feelings of winters past, relaxing in front of an open fire, with the soft flutter of snow falling calmly out the window? Maybe you just love winter!
Well, we have the perfect plugin for you.
Snowflakes is the most lightweight but rewarding falling snow plugin ever created. Scientifically tested to ensure that the rate of snowfall is calming (meteorologically described as ‘light flurries’) as opposed to the slightly less calming rates of snowfall found in other falling snow generating plugins (meteorologically described as ‘blizzard’ to ‘white out’).
Snowflakes takes you back to the coziest memories and moments of winter and is fully responsive with mobile and tablet devices.
Our mindset in developing Snowflakes was to keep it simple, and ensure that the plugin was effective in its purpose.
We hope you enjoy it!

Snowflakes

The simplest, lightest, most calming, holiday inspiring falling snow WordPress Plugin ever created.

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.

Snowflakes vs Snow Fall