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WP Snow Effect

by d3wp · Uncategorized

Also makes 4 other plugins · 1.1K+ installs across the portfolio →

Add nice looking animation effect of falling snow to your Wordpress site and enjoy winter and Christmas.

How scoring works →
82 Health · B
Maintenance 76/100
Rating quality 98/100
Support 70/100

82 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

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.

80 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Support resolution

Update recency 85/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 96/100
Listing tuning 100/100
Support resolution 0/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+37% vs prior 30d
35Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

816

now · peak 24.7K

85330d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

WP Snow Effect · #5611 you Festival Snow Effect · #18456 DevVN Snow · #19323 Christmas Snow · #51710

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.9Stars · Aug 26

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.

853per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Actively maintained
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

4

releases in the last 12 months

9mo ago

latest release · v1.1.19

24

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1.19 · 9mo ago1.1.18 · 9mo ago1.1.17 · 9mo ago1.1.16 · 9mo ago1.1.15 · 5.7y ago1.1.14 · 5.7y ago1.1.13 · 5.7y ago1.1.12 · 5.7y ago1.1.11 · 5.8y ago1.1.10 · 6.7y ago1.1.9 · 7.4y ago1.1.8 · 8.0y ago1.1.7 · 8.7y ago1.1.6 · 8.7y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.5K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-09-25 · 1,425 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.1.19
Last updated
9mo ago
Added
2011-12-14 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.6
Tested up to
6.9.7
Requires PHP
5.6

Recent reviews

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  1. rubengeradmathew
    7mo ago

    Good job, would be even better to show seasonal changes, so you don’t have to deactivate .

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  2. nicolasrequin
    8mo ago

    Best plugin Snow

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  3. wordpressghoul
    8mo ago

    Works really well, nice simple to use plugin.

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  4. flvf63
    8mo ago

    Facile da configurare e da usare.

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  5. janitc
    8mo ago

    In a world this complicated, it’s sweet to have these little things to make us smile. Thank you.

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  6. stevomigas
    8mo ago

    Easy to install and use

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  7. igormig
    8mo ago

    A simple and effective plugin. No settings required. It does its job 100%. This topic was modified 6 months, 3 weeks ago by igormig.

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  8. LichKing
    8mo ago

    If you just need some snow effect in your site easy to install and use, without hassle, even the free version covers it.

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. 2025-11-03 CVE-2025-64294 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.1.15 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.9

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 115 languages, 5 at 90% or more

German 100%
Italian 100%
Russian 100%
Slovak 100%
Swedish 100%
Dutch 85%
French (France) 42%
Afrikaans 14%
Albanian 14%
Amharic 14%
Arabic 14%
Aragonese 14%
Armenian 14%
Arpitan 14%
Assamese 14%
Azerbaijani 14%
Basque 14%
Belarusian 14%
Bengali 14%
Bosnian 14%
Breton 14%
Bulgarian 14%
Catalan 14%
Cebuano 14%

Plus 91 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-05-05 2K+ → 1K+ down after 59 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-07 3K+ → 2K+ down after 19 days in tier
  3. 2026-02-16 4K+ → 3K+ down after 18 days in tier
  4. 2026-01-29 5K+ → 4K+ down after 9 days in tier
  5. 2026-01-20 6K+ → 5K+ down after 7 days in tier
  6. 2026-01-13 7K+ → 6K+ down after 4 days in tier
  7. 2026-01-09 8K+ → 7K+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2026-01-07 9K+ → 8K+ down after 3 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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