Snowly Documentation

Overview

Light snowfall on your site during the holidays: it starts and stops on the dates you choose, respects reduced motion and lets visitors stop it.

• Holiday snowfall
• Automatic dates
• Stop button

Best for: Festive sites in December

Installation

1. Download snowly-snow-effect.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.

Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.

Features

• Starts and stops on your dates, every year
• Amount, size, speed and color
• Lightweight canvas, paused when the tab is hidden
• Never shown to visitors who prefer reduced motion
• A small button to stop it, remembered
• Show on phones or not, home page only option
• Clicks pass through the snow

For developers

Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).

Filters

• snowly_active
• snowly_in_season
• snowly_sanitize

add_filter( 'snowly_active', function ( $value ) {
	// Change $value here.
	return $value;
}, 10, 1 );

Actions

• snowly_admin_after_form
• snowly_admin_before_form
• snowly_admin_form_end

Updates

Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.

Frequently asked questions