Add Some Holiday Spirit to Your WordPress Site with These 5 Plugins

December has begun and that means only one thing – November is now behind us. We’re kidding. Of course, it means the long-awaited countdown to Christmas has officially started and all stores in your neighborhood are being decorated with magical Christmas trees covered in sparkly lights so their customers would feel more at home. Hmm… Why don’t you follow suit and use these 5 awesome, user-friendly and, most importantly, Christmasy WordPress plugins to remind your faithful readers that Holyday season is upon us?

To help you get this done and get your audiences into the Christmas spirit as soon as possible, we have put together a list of these fun WordPress Holiday-themed plugins that are available via the WordPress Plugin Repository. Ok, let’s get cracking!

Advent Calendars

Advent calendars are often seen in homes throughout the Christmas season, but now you can add them to your page as well, with this useful plugin that lets you place one on your site. The great news is that this advent calendar works for almost any event that you can possibly imagine, and since the calendar uses shortcodes, you can place it on any page or post that you want while you can also have multiple calendars for multiple years.

Not only is this WordPress Holyday plugin simple and easy to use, it also lets you add your own images for each advent, meaning you will be able to make a calendar for the whole Christmas season right away. It also creates a custom post type that you can then add to any page or post in the form of a shortcode, and the preset image will then appear on that day as the advent occurs. Neat.

Countdown Clocks

Once the frenzy begins, people want to know just how many days, hours, seconds it is left until Christmas. This Christmas countdown clock plugin for your WordPress page will provide your readers with this feeling of warm and jolly anticipation and their Holyday spirit will most certainly skyrocket.

With this simple plugin you can add a nice Flash Christmas countdown clock, and the great part is that there are a plethora of different designs to satisfy your unique aesthetic needs. You can select the size, background colors, pictures and animations, all for the purposes of the clock fitting and blending nicely into your current theme.  It is pretty responsive and you can add it as a widget or as a shortcode to any page or post.

Tribulant Snow Storm

This interesting and attractive Snow Storm plugin was developed by Tribulant Software for all Christmas season lovers who want to adorn their WordPress website with the animation of the beautiful and wild falling snow during the festive season. With Tribulant Snow Storm plugin you can easily display intricate snowflakes falling down across your WordPress page, and this tool allows you to do this just the way you want. You will be able to configure a few simple settings and adjust the color, the amount of snow, animation intervals, follow mouse cursor, melt effect, twinkle, etc … The great thing is that this plugin is mobile-friendly so all your readers that prefer portable devices will able to enjoy this fun WordPress ornament too.

Christmas Magic

Christmas Magic is similar to the previous one, but with more options, for all you Christmas lovers out there who like to spend hours decorating their… Well, pretty much everything. This plugin will adorn your page with an awesome and quite realistic snow effect with lots of cool features. You will even be able to change the number of snowflakes that appear, set the fading opacity of the snow, add a custom background color, insert your own image, while you will also be able to add a Christmas carol (which can, of course, be toggled off, for all those grumpy people who don’t like jolly Holyday tunes).

Snow 3D

To wrap things up, we have decided to introduce an even more awesome snow effect WordPress plugin – Snow 3D. This plugin does exactly what its name suggests – the snow on your page will indeed go in any direction you want, and the best mode we’ve tried is most definitely when the snowflakes are going toward the reader. A great way to experience true winter season if you can’t afford an actual ski trip.

The tool pretty much covers over the whole website, turning your page into a nice winter spectacle. It is pretty responsive, even though there are over 200 different snowflakes on your screen (pretty neat detail, considering the fact that all snowflakes are unique, right?). The snow can follow the mouse cursor or it can stick to the finger of the user on a touch screen. You can also set the speed, direction, and how often the snow shows up, while you can also turn on the fade scroll feature which will make the snow disappears the reader scrolls to the bottom of the page.

And there you have it – 5 great WordPress plugins that will certainly make your reader take out the dusty red Christmas sweater with reindeer on it, and while you are figuring out which of these plugins you will install, maybe you want to see Why Defining the Target Audience is a Key to an Effective Digital Strategy.

Have a jolly Christmas, everyone!