Name: DCLVBS Snowflakes
Author: decalvibes

DCLVBS Snowflakes adds a decorative animated snowfall effect to the public-facing WordPress website.

Snowflakes are generated dynamically in the browser and fall across the visible page.

Website elements can optionally be marked as snow surfaces. Snowflakes can then visually accumulate on those elements.

To enable snow accumulation on an element, add the following CSS class:

dclvbs-snow-surface

The plugin does not modify post content, media files, theme files, or database content.

The effect is displayed only on the public-facing website.

Visitors who have enabled reduced-motion preferences in their operating system or browser will not receive the animated snow effect.

Features

Decorative falling snowflake animation
35 continuously generated snowflakes
Random snowflake size
Random horizontal positioning
Random opacity
Random falling duration
Optional snow accumulation on selected frontend elements
Maximum accumulation limit per snow surface for improved performance
Frontend-only functionality
No modification of WordPress content or media files
No plugin-specific snowfall settings stored in the database
Snowfall functionality runs locally in the visitor’s browser
Support for reduced-motion accessibility preferences
WordPress-compliant frontend script and style loading

Snow surfaces

Snowflakes can optionally accumulate on selected elements.

To make an element a snow surface, add the CSS class:

dclvbs-snow-surface

For example:

<div class="dclvbs-snow-surface">Your content</div>

The plugin checks visible snow surfaces while snowflakes are falling.

When a suitable visible surface is detected, decorative snowflakes may be placed near the top edge of that element.

The accumulated snowflakes are visual elements only and do not modify the underlying content.

Snow accumulation limit

To help limit the number of generated frontend elements, each snow surface keeps a maximum of approximately 60 accumulated snowflakes.

When the limit is exceeded, the oldest accumulated snowflake is removed.

Accessibility

DCLVBS Snowflakes respects the CSS and browser preference:

prefers-reduced-motion: reduce

When a visitor has reduced motion enabled, the animated snowfall effect is disabled.

This helps avoid unnecessary animation for visitors who prefer reduced motion.

Privacy

The snowflake animation itself is generated locally in the visitor’s browser.

DCLVBS Snowflakes does not intentionally upload website content or snow surface information to an external service as part of the snowfall functionality.

The plugin uses the Freemius SDK for account-related functionality, plugin usage information, licensing infrastructure, and related service functionality.

When the website administrator opts in to Freemius services or uses functionality that requires communication with Freemius, information about the website, plugin installation, WordPress environment, and administrator account may be transmitted to Freemius.

The snowfall effect itself does not require visitor data to be transmitted to Freemius in order to function.

External Services

This plugin uses the Freemius SDK for account-related functionality, plugin usage information, licensing infrastructure, and related service functionality.

The plugin does not intentionally transmit snowflake positions, snow surface information, website content, or visitor interactions with the snowfall effect to Freemius as part of the snowfall functionality.

For more information about Freemius and its data practices, see:

Freemius:
https://freemius.com/

Freemius Terms of Service:
https://freemius.com/terms/

Freemius Privacy Policy:
https://freemius.com/privacy/

Requirements

WordPress 6.0 or later
PHP 7.4 or later
JavaScript enabled in the visitor’s browser for the animated snow effect

Support

For additional information about DECALVIBES and DCLVBS Snowflakes, visit:

https://www.decalvibes.com/dclvbs-snowflakes-for-wordpress/

Author

DECALVIBES

https://www.decalvibes.com/