How to Add Falling Snowflakes in Your WordPress Blog

Falling snowflakes can help create holiday cheer and excitement on your website to make it visually more appealing. This is a fun way to add animations to your WordPress site for winter and the holiday season.

However, knowing how to add these effects without slowing down your site is key to maintaining a great user experience.

Over the years, we have added different fun effects to our personal blogs, business sites, and more. This has given us a solid understanding of how to boost a site’s appearance without affecting its SEO or loading speed.

In this article, we will show you how to easily add falling snowflakes to your WordPress blog, step by step.

Why Add Falling Snowflakes to Your WordPress Blog?

Integrating falling snowflakes on your WordPress blog makes it look festive. This can encourage users to stay longer to see the effects.

For example, if you write about Christmas or winter-related topics, a snowfall effect adds a special touch to your website.

Plus, if you have a WooCommerce store with holiday discounts, displaying snowflakes creates excitement. In turn, this can help increase conversions and sales.

Having said that, let’s see how to easily add falling snowflakes to your WordPress website.

How to Add Falling Snowflakes to Your WordPress Blog

First, you need to install and activate the DB Falling Snowflakes plugin. For detailed instructions, see our beginner’s guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, visit the DB Snow Flakes menu tab from the WordPress admin sidebar to configure the plugin settings.

Here, start by choosing the date and month for when the snowflakes will start falling.

You can also select the end dates for the snowflakes from the dropdown menus next to the ‘Stop on’ option.

For example, if you want snowflakes to appear from December 1st to January 1st, simply select those dates.

Next, type the maximum number of snowflakes to display on the screen.

We recommend keeping this number between 30 and 50. This ensures the animation looks good without slowing down your website.

Once you have done that, choose the minimum and maximum size of the snowflakes.

Then, use the slider next to the ‘Speed’ option to control how fast they fall.

Now, scroll down to the ‘Colors’ section. You can choose 5 options, and the plugin will randomly select colors from this list.

Make sure to pick colors that stand out against your background. For example, if your site has a white background, use light blue or gray instead of white.

Finally, click the ‘Save Changes’ button to store your settings.

Now, you can visit your website homepage to view the falling snowflakes in action.

If you have set a later date for the falling snowflakes, they will start falling on your screen at that time.

Don’t forget to check your website on a mobile device. You want to make sure the snowflakes don’t block important text or buttons.

Bonus: Create a Christmas Campaign With OptinMonster

Adding falling snowflakes is just one way to make your site more interactive during the holiday season. You can also use popups and promotions to advertise your festive deals.

OptinMonster is the best WordPress lead generation and conversion optimization tool on the market. It allows you to create attention-grabbing optin forms, floating bars, coupon popups, and so much more.

OptinMonster also offers a pre-made Christmas template that you can use during the festive season to show discount offers. This will increase sales on your website.

First, you will need to create an account on the OptinMonster website by clicking on the ‘Get OptinMonster Now’ button.

Once you have done that, install and activate the free OptinMonster plugin on your website. For details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

The plugin will now act as a connector between your OptinMonster account and your WordPress website.

Upon activating the plugin, you will see the setup wizard. Go ahead and click the ‘Connect Your Existing Account’ button.

Once you’ve connected your OptinMonster account to your website, you need to visit the OptinMonster » Templates page from the WordPress admin sidebar and find the ‘Christmas Discount’ template.

After you click on the template, a popup will open on the screen, asking you to type a name for your campaign.

You will now be taken to the drag-and-drop builder, where you can easily customize your Christmas template to show a discount, membership promotion, or subscription offer on your website for the festive season.

For more details on this, see our tutorial on how to create a coupon popup in WordPress.

Finally, click the ‘Save’ button at the top and switch to the ‘Publish’ tab.

Here, click on the ‘Publish’ button to make your Christmas campaign live on your site.

With OptinMonster, you can also schedule your Christmas campaign, use exit-intent technology, do A/B testing, create mobile campaigns, build your email list, and more.

For details, just see our tutorial on how to build your email list in WordPress with OptinMonster.

We hope this article helped you learn how to add falling snowflakes to your WordPress blog. You may also want to see our guide on how to add Halloween effects to your WordPress website and our expert picks for the best holiday gift ideas for bloggers, designers, and developers.

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