Note: This post is a bit old and includes outdated instructions. Make it snow on your site by following these up-to-date instructions.
It’s 43 degrees outside, which is I think as cold as it gets in San Francisco. But there’s no reason we can’t turn down the thermometer here on WordPress.com.
That’s right, the snow is back!
Last year we were a little tardy with adding it so to make up we’re giving you almost a full month of snowy goodness.
How to make it rain snow?
- Go to your dashboard.
- Navigate to Appearance -> Extras.
- Check the box next to “Show falling snow on this blog.”
- Roast some chestnuts.
Oh the weather outside is frightful,
but this blog is sooo delightful
Until the internet gets slow,
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Those of you who turned on snow on last year will get it automatically. If you want to turn it off just do the steps above but uncheck the box.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
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The snow looks awesome! 😀
yay! I love it 🙂 Its nice to get a little snow SOMEwhere, especially when you live in a place that doesn’t get any. Hurrah!
43 degrees F right?
That’d be what in C ? 😛
Just curious, going to Santa Monica in february and it’s ”quite close”…
anyhow, merry christmas & happy holidays from a random stranger.
This is great-thanks!!! It’s the only snow I’ll get here in Florida 🙂
I love the Snow effect! So does my Dad. He uses it on his site and so do I! 🙂
I’ve no idea how appropriate snow is on my blog, but I really don’t care. This is too cool, by half. Thankyou!
This is awesome. Thanks for making this little things that make WP so fun to use!
Hi matt! So when it says Goshdarnit! Somethings wrong with the servers, its probably Matt’s fault, thats who there talking about! I really think the snowing thing is awesome! Thanks for putting it in!
~Caligirl998
LOL! I love seeing snow over my African palm trees!
It’s always nice to have some snow @ my blog during winter! =)
wow…..awesome…..i’ll try it.
in bahasa indonesia:
wah…mengagumkan….coba ah…..
lol this is funny
it was snowing today were i live and its not that cold out lol
Ha! Wonderful! Thanks guys – it’s reminded me to go and switch the snow on over my island in Second Life 😀
LOL
It’s great. I’ve set it already on my blog. Thanks!
Brrrrr. Where’s my coat.
Ho, Ho, Ho….the snow is back… 😀
Thanks Matt
I’m in love with snow! I’m so happy I can have it flow on my blog!
It’s going to look a bit funny here in Australia – but I will happily give it a go! I have actually seen a white Christmas in Australia – one year when we had a very late blizzard in the mountains. My son is in Canada – he will love it. Thanks, WP.
Nice! 😛
Grreat…
100% CPU usage.
Horizontal scrollbar is appearing/disappearing repeatedly.
Konqueror 4.1.
Could you make this disableable on a per-user basis? Thanks.
P.S. Why have snow on a blog with a white background? 🙂
Lol.
Nice. It’s snowing. 😀
Cya!.-
Very beautiful. Thanks!
Great for those of us who live in the bay area. For the record, I *have* seen it snow in San Francisco.
LOL@The Land of Fruits and Nuts complaining about 43F. Try dealing with that kind of weather for 7 months a year.
Thank you! I thought it was “roast some chipmunks”
same here.. let it snow blah blah lah lahh. 🙂
this has got to be one of my favorite little extras
I’m going to make it snow on my blog now!! This is going to be so cool! 😉
Thank you WordPress for the Cool Snow Effect!
thanks 😀 cool … here in Kyoto, Japan, temperature is up to 3 Celsius at night. hmmm I guess any time soon, snow will start falling again … thanks again. More power to you guys wordpress, automattic. 😀
amazing – so nice to have snow and its the one thing I miss here in Oman
Gosh! This is great@!
Uhm….I like!!! xxx
Firstly not all bloggers are in the northern hemisphere.
Secondly your Christmas pictures seem to get dorkier every year
🙂
That’s pretty crazy… I just signed up, and this was the first thing I saw, I dunno why but it just made me smile haha
This is just amazing. WP is my <3. 🙂
oohhh! the christmas is really in the air… nice idea! 🙂
Thank you~~~
I love it so much.
Wow 43 degrees, I wish! It is 16 degrees here in Salem MA! Thanks for the snow I will make a snow angel just for you!
Fantastic! The wordpress is without doubt the best blog! Easy to use, well organized and very professional and now snow … here in Portugal has not snow much.
Good Christmas wordpress
Thanks for your great work.
WOW!!!!!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!
HURRAY FOR XMAS AND WORDPRESS!
lovely idea! thank you! you are the best!
Wow.. That’s so cool.. I love snow.. Yaaah! White Christmas!
thanks, Christmas came early 🙂
Thats awesome. Thanks WP. The snow looks great with my mistylook theme. Can’t wait for the next plugin!
Very cool!! Thank you very much and have a Merry Chistmas!
Amazing feature — but did you ever have a look at how much CPU power that burns?
You can disable it under Appearance > Extras if you’re not into the snow.
Bbrrrrrr !
Time for some hot chocolate!
YAY! I am SO excited about the snow! You should let it stay all winter!!! How fun!
Sweet. Had it on last december, too. 😀
oh i love it thanks so much
I love this SO MUCH. I tell everyone they need to use WordPress.
Is there a way for wp.com bloggers to turn off the snow when looking at other wp.com blogs? It gets old (or should that be cold?) after a while.
Andrew Scrooge.
ps Here in Boston, we’ve had a fraction of an inch of the real stuff.
Sorry, Scrooge, there isn’t 😉 Don’t worry, it’ll be virtually shoveled away in early January.
I thought it had snowed this morning, but it was just a severe frost. This’ll do nicely!
It’s a really nice effect, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s consuming some real annoying processing. Well, maybe I’m just too of a geek, but I believe it has a bad effect on performance. Just looking through the processes running on my OS, found Firefox consuming most of the power. And, for blogs with a white background (like here, at the WordPress Blog), it’s just a big waste of resources.
I felt the same problem viewing my own blog(using the snowy extra) on the Mozilla Firefox 3.0 browser, over Ubuntu 8.04 and Mac OS X. That really disturbs me.
I would be really interested in having some kind of button on the blogs using the extra which would enable a viewer to turn-off the effect, alike to those common buttons on Flash apps to turn-off sound, but it would be “turn-off snow”.
You can turn off snow by unchecking that option under Appearance > Extras.
Maybe you could make this available in June for Aussies. 😀
The Snow is awesome! Thank you to whichever bored programmer made that!
Cool snow I just added it to my blog yesterday. It makes my blog look more Winter like.
Very sweet, Adha Mubarak [Happy Eid] and Merry Christmas to every one, it’s raining outside, but at least I have a snow on my Blog.
how lovely the clip is!
merry X’ms!
Kool im gonna use it.
Beautiful! A small, but lovely little gesture on the part of WordPress. Thank you guys!
wow….. amazing
Can u please extend the date of the end of the snowing season??? PLEASE!!!?!?!?
Sorry, no. Wouldn’t be as special if it lasted too long!
here.. -3degrees and snowing aswell 😀 😀 😀
Love it! You guys are awesome!
Snow, it’s wonderful!!!
thx a lot 🙂
I know how to turn off MY snow. I wanna turn off other blog’s snow, to enhance my web-browsing performance.
Sorry, that’s not an option. But come early January, it will melt anyway 🙂
haha sick thanks man
I saw it was available till 4th of January 2009? I’m loving it 😀 !!
Fantastic! Snow on my desert blog.
Cool! Snow and no shoveling! Happy Holidays! 🙂
Do you think when the snow season is over we can have a rain option on our blogs? I really love the snow so much on the blogs and I love real rain. I wish we could have snow all year round, but then I guess it wouldn’t be as special during the winter months!
ahh thank you wordpress. it finally feels like xmas…with the snow!
The snow is wonderful, everyone Loves it. I was pleasantly surprised to get it again this year. Thanx Still trying to get used to the new Dashboard, that is not as much fun as the snow 😦
so cute!! thanks!
Incredible! Thank you!
yeaaaa~~ snooow XD hahahahaha