Christmas and New Year WordPress Snow Effect Plugin and JS Code Sharing

For personal bloggers, there are quite a few who think about adding some special effects to their websites during holidays and festivals. As the weather gets cold and Christmas, New Year's Day, and Spring Festival approach, I'm sharing a few in advance.WordPress Website Snowfall Plugins and JS Code。

Website Snow Plugin

Snow My WP

The Snow My WP plugin is very simple to use. After downloading and activating it, random snowflake images will appear on the website frontend. There are no settings; simply disable the plugin when you don't need the snowfall effect.Download Link

WP Snow - Best Snow Effect Plugin

The WP Snow - Best Snow Effect Plugin includes a settings panel where you can set snowflake size and color, and even display text falling effects. If you have someone you like, you can try writing a few words of confession for Christmas. This plugin is free.Recommended. This plugin allows you to create beautiful animated snowflakes or other types of flakes. For example, you can use various icons as snowflakes, customize text, etc.

Features

• Custom Snowflake Layout – Add your own custom text that falls like snowflakes
• Flakes Fonts Integration – Customizable fonts and optional Fontawesome icon effects
• Display snowflakes only on specific posts or pages (also supports custom post types)
• Customize snowflake colors – You can also set multiple colors assigned randomly
• Customize snowflake fonts – You can also set multiple fonts assigned randomly
• Add custom flake styles – You can also add custom CSS styles to each flake for unlimited possibilities
• Deactivate snowflakes directly in settings – This gives you faster control over snowflakes than ever before
• Customize the number of snowflakes visible at once
• Customize the falling speed of snowflakes
• Customize the maximum and minimum size of snowflakes
• Optimize performance by changing the refresh speed of the snowflake animation
• Customize the z-index of your snowflakes
• Advanced developer hooks

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Weather Effect

Weather Effect – Christmas effect, snow effect is a weather effects plugin. Besides snow, it can also make Santa Claus and Christmas stockings fall.A weather effects plugin with multiple effects (winter, New Year, autumn, hollow, summer, spring, rain, Thanksgiving, Valentine„s). This is the new “Weather Effect WordPress Plugin„, based on Irresistible CSS and JS, making it very magical and easy to use. The best WordPress Weather Effect plugin helps you beautify your website with just a few clicks. Depending on the weather and occasion, it has many falling effects; you can choose the effect based on your idea, and users can add over 10 falling effects to their own websites. The Weather Effect WordPress plugin is the only one with special falling effects for any website. You can use the Weather Effect WordPress plugin to decorate your site according to any weather or occasion. This weather effect plugin is perfect for both new and experienced users because it has simple configurations and no shortcodes, so you can use it very simply—just configure the plugin settings and save them with the save button. This Weather Effect is a paid plugin, but the free features are sufficient and worth considering.Download Link

Snowfall Effect JS Code

JS code requires modifying the website theme source code files. If you are not familiar with this, it is recommended to use the plugins recommended above.Snowfall Effect. The effect is shown in the image below. The snowflakes are from Code One, and the white dots are from Code Two. The JS code is fromZhang Ge's Blog。

Snowfall JS Code One

<script type="text/javascript">
(function($){
	$.fn.snow = function(options){
	var $flake = $('<div id="snowbox" />').css({'position': 'absolute','z-index':'9999', 'top': '-50px'}).html('&#10052;'),
	documentHeight 	= $(document).height(),
	documentWidth	= $(document).width(),
	defaults = {
		minSize		: 10,
		maxSize		: 20,
		newOn		: 1000,
		flakeColor	: "#AFDAEF" /* 此处可以定义雪花颜色，若要白色可以改为#FFFFFF */
	},
	options	= $.extend({}, defaults, options);
	var interval= setInterval( function(){
	var startPositionLeft = Math.random() * documentWidth - 100,
	startOpacity = 0.5 + Math.random(),
	sizeFlake = options.minSize + Math.random() * options.maxSize,
	endPositionTop = documentHeight - 200,
	endPositionLeft = startPositionLeft - 500 + Math.random() * 500,
	durationFall = documentHeight * 10 + Math.random() * 5000;
	$flake.clone().appendTo('body').css({
		left: startPositionLeft,
		opacity: startOpacity,
		'font-size': sizeFlake,
		color: options.flakeColor
	}).animate({
		top: endPositionTop,
		left: endPositionLeft,
		opacity: 0.2
	},durationFall,'linear',function(){
		$(this).remove()
	});
	}, options.newOn);
    };
})(jQuery);
$(function(){
    $.fn.snow({ 
	    minSize: 5, /* 定义雪花最小尺寸 */
	    maxSize: 50,/* 定义雪花最大尺寸 */
	    newOn: 300  /* 定义密集程度，数字越小越密集 */
    });
});
</script>

Snowfall JS Effect Two

<script type="text/javascript">
    /* 控制下雪 */
    function snowFall(snow) {
        /* 可配置属性 */
        snow = snow || {};
        this.maxFlake = snow.maxFlake || 200;   /* 最多片数 */
        this.flakeSize = snow.flakeSize || 10;  /* 雪花形状 */
        this.fallSpeed = snow.fallSpeed || 1;   /* 坠落速度 */
    }
    /* 兼容写法 */
    requestAnimationFrame = window.requestAnimationFrame ||
        window.mozRequestAnimationFrame ||
        window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame ||
        window.msRequestAnimationFrame ||
        window.oRequestAnimationFrame ||
        function(callback) { setTimeout(callback, 1000 / 60); };
 
    cancelAnimationFrame = window.cancelAnimationFrame ||
        window.mozCancelAnimationFrame ||
        window.webkitCancelAnimationFrame ||
        window.msCancelAnimationFrame ||
        window.oCancelAnimationFrame;
    /* 开始下雪 */
    snowFall.prototype.start = function(){
        /* 创建画布 */
        snowCanvas.apply(this);
        /* 创建雪花形状 */
        createFlakes.apply(this);
        /* 画雪 */
        drawSnow.apply(this)
    }
    /* 创建画布 */
    function snowCanvas() {
        /* 添加Dom结点 */
        var snowcanvas = document.createElement("canvas");
        snowcanvas.id = "snowfall";
        snowcanvas.width = window.innerWidth;
        snowcanvas.height = document.body.clientHeight;
        snowcanvas.setAttribute("style", "position:absolute; top: 0; left: 0; z-index: 1; pointer-events: none;");
        document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(snowcanvas);
        this.canvas = snowcanvas;
        this.ctx = snowcanvas.getContext("2d");
        /* 窗口大小改变的处理 */
        window.onresize = function() {
            snowcanvas.width = window.innerWidth;
            /* snowcanvas.height = window.innerHeight */
        }
    }
    /* 雪运动对象 */
    function flakeMove(canvasWidth, canvasHeight, flakeSize, fallSpeed) {
        this.x = Math.floor(Math.random() * canvasWidth);   /* x坐标 */
        this.y = Math.floor(Math.random() * canvasHeight);  /* y坐标 */
        this.size = Math.random() * flakeSize + 2;          /* 形状 */
        this.maxSize = flakeSize;                           /* 最大形状 */
        this.speed = Math.random() * 1 + fallSpeed;         /* 坠落速度 */
        this.fallSpeed = fallSpeed;                         /* 坠落速度 */
        this.velY = this.speed;                             /* Y方向速度 */
        this.velX = 0;                                      /* X方向速度 */
        this.stepSize = Math.random() / 30;                 /* 步长 */
        this.step = 0                                       /* 步数 */
    }
    flakeMove.prototype.update = function() {
        var x = this.x,
            y = this.y;
        /* 左右摆动(余弦) */
        this.velX *= 0.98;
        if (this.velY <= this.speed) {
            this.velY = this.speed
        }
        this.velX += Math.cos(this.step += .05) * this.stepSize;
 
        this.y += this.velY;
        this.x += this.velX;
        /* 飞出边界的处理 */
        if (this.x >= canvas.width || this.x <= 0 || this.y >= canvas.height || this.y <= 0) {
            this.reset(canvas.width, canvas.height)
        }
    };
    /* 飞出边界-放置最顶端继续坠落 */
    flakeMove.prototype.reset = function(width, height) {
        this.x = Math.floor(Math.random() * width);
        this.y = 0;
        this.size = Math.random() * this.maxSize + 2;
        this.speed = Math.random() * 1 + this.fallSpeed;
        this.velY = this.speed;
        this.velX = 0;
    };
    // 渲染雪花-随机形状（此处可修改雪花颜色！！！）
    flakeMove.prototype.render = function(ctx) {
        var snowFlake = ctx.createRadialGradient(this.x, this.y, 0, this.x, this.y, this.size);
        snowFlake.addColorStop(0, "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9)");  /* 此处是雪花颜色，默认是白色 */
        snowFlake.addColorStop(.5, "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5)"); /* 若要改为其他颜色，请自行查 */
        snowFlake.addColorStop(1, "rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)");    /* 找16进制的RGB 颜色代码。 */
        ctx.save();
        ctx.fillStyle = snowFlake;
        ctx.beginPath();
        ctx.arc(this.x, this.y, this.size, 0, Math.PI * 2);
        ctx.fill();
        ctx.restore();
    };
    /* 创建雪花-定义形状 */
    function createFlakes() {
        var maxFlake = this.maxFlake,
            flakes = this.flakes = [],
            canvas = this.canvas;
        for (var i = 0; i < maxFlake; i++) {
            flakes.push(new flakeMove(canvas.width, canvas.height, this.flakeSize, this.fallSpeed))
        }
    }
    /* 画雪 */
    function drawSnow() {
        var maxFlake = this.maxFlake,
            flakes = this.flakes;
        ctx = this.ctx, canvas = this.canvas, that = this;
        /* 清空雪花 */
        ctx.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
        for (var e = 0; e < maxFlake; e++) {
            flakes[e].update();
            flakes[e].render(ctx);
        }
        /*  一帧一帧的画 */
        this.loop = requestAnimationFrame(function() {
            drawSnow.apply(that);
        });
    }
    /* 调用及控制方法 */
    var snow = new snowFall({maxFlake:500});
    snow.start();
</script>

JS Code Usage Method

Method ①: Copy one of the JS codes and paste it before the website's <\/body> tag. Method ②: Remove the <script **> tags before and after the code, save the code as a JS file, and then reference it on the website. Ps: If there is no effect, please check if the webpage has loaded jQuery. If not, please introduce JQ before the snowfall code. The above isChristmas and New Year WordPress Snow Effect Plugin and JS Code SharingAll content, if you have better-looking web effects, feel free to share them with us.