Code Live Snow

Code Live Snow adds a lightweight, canvas-based falling snow animation to your site. Everything is configured from one simple settings screen, and the snow can switch itself on and off automatically by date.

Features

• 37 built-in shapes: snowflakes, snowman, Christmas trees, ornament balls, gifts, candy canes, stars, bells, holly, Santa hats, pumpkins, bats, ghosts, candy, spiders, witch hats, confetti, fireworks, balloons, hearts, love letters, Easter eggs, flowers, chicks, leaves, acorns, crescent moons, lanterns and more
• One-click event presets: Winter, Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s Day, Easter & Spring, Halloween, Autumn, Ramadan & Eid
• Automatic holiday calendar: the right effect switches on by date every year (dates are editable)
• Colour options: original colours, one colour for everything, or a multi-colour palette (up to 8 colours) with quick palettes
• Opacity control, and optional recolouring of your own images
• Add up to 20 custom images from your Media Library
• Five directions, including rising (great for balloons)
• Separate counts for mobile and desktop (set mobile to 0 to hide on phones)
• Min/max size, rotation and sway toggles
• Show only on chosen pages, or hide on chosen pages
• Modern tabbed settings page with a live preview
• Respects “reduce motion” and Data Saver settings
• Settings are kept when you update or reinstall (optional delete on uninstall)
• No tracking, no external requests, no ads

Built for speed

• Nothing loads on pages where the effect is off
• One small deferred script (about 6 KB gzipped), no jQuery on the front end
• Starts only after the page has fully loaded, so it does not affect page speed scores
• Each shape is drawn once and reused; phones run at 30fps to save battery