Professional snow plugin with highly customizable options, no coding knowledge required.
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Health
D 47/100
Stale · Likely abandoned
Active installs
100+
≈150 estimated
Momentum
-1%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: One page off on “xmas”. #15 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
47 health vs 58 average across 25,738 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.5%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 21.3K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,771 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39, well behind 6.8.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 3601 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.7.39; the current branch is 6.8
4.5★ over 13 reviews, smoothed to 4.18★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3601 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
31
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.5
Velocity
places per keyword, 13d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 13d
+0.1
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| snowing your tag | #5 | #2 | 0 |
| xmas your tag | #15 | #6 | down 2 |
| christmas your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| snow your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| winter your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
8 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 2 listed. 6 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- One page off on “xmas”. #15 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- “christmas”, “snow” and “winter” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 322 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
9.9y ago
latest release · v2.0.2 · 21 Dec 2016
8
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 6 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 51% of the way through.
Install history since 26 Aug 2019
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Prince Ken7.9y ago
The plugin is really easy to customize and I love the result on my site’s front-end
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ ahmedzubair7.9y ago
very useful and nice plugin but even after disabling it on mobile screen it still works on phone, any workaround or update please? that is critical for me. And maybe a random image out of a number of images like 5 or 10 and adding some movement file falling would be awesome on top of this brilliant work. This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by ahmedzubair. This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by ahmedzubair.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ guyin8148.9y ago
Works well. It would be nice to have the option to snow only on the main home page, disabling it for all other pages. This topic was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by guyin814.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ piguet9.7y ago
Very good plugin to show snowflakes on your screen. You can even change the picture by another one, like dead leaves picture for automn ! Perhaps, one day, the dead leaves will “turn”… 🙂 ! Please find the same concept for each seasons 🙂 ! Thank you for this first one 🙂 !
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ girlgon19.7y ago
Working great for me and was able to upload my own image to use for Valentines Day. Add a timeout ability (ie- snow stops after 60 seconds to not annoy your visitors) in addition to the scheduling, and you have the perfect plugin.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Stanislav Khromov9.8y ago
At the default 25 flakes, my core i7 is running at 25% CPU in Firefox. (ie 100% of one core). This is due to poorly JS code which makes performance terrible. Please update your JS code to be more lightweight and you will be the first snowfall plugin that doesn’t impact site performance.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Geetar9.9y ago
Nice and clean plugin. Thanks!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ andreamattani9.9y ago
Simple, easy to use, customizable…. want more?
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
3 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ✓ Has a FAQ 3 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 3 of 3 read like questions a user would type.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("use this", "who needs").
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 4 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 847 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 5 tags appear in the text ("christmas", "snowing", "winter", "xmas" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-05-05 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-04 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-05-02 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-01 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2026-04-28 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-04-27 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-04-26 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-04-25 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Christmas Lights 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags -
Christmas Snow 3D – Snowfalling, Snowflake Effect and Christmas mood 100+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags C -
Xmas Snow 30+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags D -
Xmas Lights 30+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags D -
WpXmas Snow 10+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B - I Improved Let It Snow! 10+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
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