Note: This post is a bit old and includes outdated instructions. Make it snow on your site by following these up-to-date instructions.
I’ve seen my fair share of snow growing up in northern Michigan. The sun was shining today, but there is a good chance we’ll have snow on the ground by the end of the week. My favorite things about snow have always been making snowmen, building snow forts, and having snowball fights.
Many of you don’t get a chance to experience the fluffy white stuff, so we’re bringing snow to WordPress.com like we’ve done the last two years. What do you like about snow?
To make it snow on your blog:
- Go to your dashboard.
- Navigate to Appearance -> Extras.
- Check the box next to “Show falling snow on this blog.”
If you used snow last year it is automatically turned back on. If you want to turn it off, follow the steps above but uncheck the box.
Older computers may run slow or stop responding due to snow. Use the following links if you run into a problem (the options below only affect your user account):
The Snow Is A Nice Effect, Thanks!
Wow. I love this snow. It didn’t snow where I live though. Too bad for me.
cheers thankyou
Thank you so much! Wonderful! Now I feel all Chrismassy 🙂
Great Idea, best wihses from Bavaria
Good One. Simple but beautiful.
omg ! i had a snow theme, and it’s now snowing on it ! this is super awesome !
It’s fantastic! Except for firefox running on Vista!
Everyone that has seen it has commented how great your snow is.
Thanks for jazzing up my blog.
Will you have hearts for Valentines day?
just kidding…
Love the snow–thanks! What I love about virtual snow is that it doesn’t make me cold. What I love about snow in Southern California is that I can go home after I’m done playing in it. 🙂
Yay snow! This is good, because it NEVER (well, hardly ever) snows in Northern Ireland!!! I feel really Christmassy now 🙂
It’s snowing in Brazil… 🙂
Love the snow! I’m in Ohio. The snow will fall shortly here too.
…a little deja vu running through my heart
what is this?
A snow!
I swear Nick tries hard to create it Falling so softly….isn,t it
SELAMAT TAHUN BARU 2010.
Very good snow this end, one of the best things I saw on WordPress.com, it is for this and other reasons that I chose WordPress.
So nice! It makes a nice little addition to the blog for the holiday season. Thanks for making it so easy!
Karin
Thanks very much for that. The snow makes it more fun, though it makes me want to actually see snow here in Australia… someday.
Thanks my friend, the snow makes my blog so beautifful..
Wow, that is too cool!
ooooh this is truly wonderful!!! I love you guys everyday more!
Thanks, but I still have cold memories from Colorado. I love the Arizona temps. Right now, we are in the 50’s, and lovin it.
and I also agree…snow just on the header would be ideal!!!
thank you… =D
Thank you very much. I love it~~
Thank you…. I like this extra 🙂
hehe.. thanks for the snow. atleast i have seen snow in my blog. bless you. merry christmas
How about in Spring we can have leaves and flowers falling?
soooooooo funny
Nice and beuty about snow…I like that…Yes…Snow
I love snow but dont have any snow in my country and this feature makes me have it. thanks. have a great winter everybody!!
Thank you very much…
Thumbs up for WordPress!
nice… i like snow on my blog… thanks… it’s a great feature 🙂
nice and beauty about…Snow…I like that…Snow
Yes…Snow…A little snow….Nice and beauty about that
Wow! really nice tip, thank you very much 🙂
Here in Porto (I’m from Portugal) is very rare to snow… I’ve only seen it happen once, it was really magic.
Great!
love the snow.! it makes me more in sync with the holiday season.. BTW, there is no snow here in the Philippines. But now there is.! yea.!
Yeah, lucky for you guys who live in northern countries. I remember when i had three days holiday during winter 12 years ago. It knew it was the one of my best experience in life. It was so soft to feel the real snow falling from the sky. Id love to turn thi cool feature on though for awhile. Thank you
It’s cool, thank you very much! 🙂
I like it, thank you very much, hopefully I can get leaves or flowers in other sesons 🙂
The snow rocks. thanks a bunch. it took me two days to find out how to do that. at first i thought it had something to do with the css. so i searched all over the internet. until i went into extras, i was trying to go to css but then i found it. thanks alot for making the snow.
you rock!
This is my first year on WordPress, although i started at the end of 2008. it think it would be a great idea if you could make leaves fall on fall.
NICE I love this feature 🙂 Thank you very much!
Awsome! Now I have snow on my blog! It is so pretty! I hope it snows again this year! 😀
Nick, you grew up in northern Michigan? As in below the bridge or above the bridge? We are getting lots of snow here in the U.P. already…maybe I don’t need to put any more on my blog? ha ha… Happy holidays!
Northern LP. We usually consider the UP part of Canada. 😉
We changed the Theme especially for the Christmas-season. And now we have SNOW FLAKES, too!! Thank you very much, it looks so good. We almost feel sorry to go back to black-letter.head in January. May it be Christmas for the rest of the year. Thank you very much.
Hah!! Merry Christmas!
I hope that snow will fall in Stavanger (Norge) 23.Desember merry christmas to every one:)
Thank you very good information.
It’s like a little Christmas present early! Thank you, I love it.
Good idea, but in my country, Argentina, we are enjoying a hot and rainy summer. Viene bien un poco de nieve!!!
nice to live in country that have winter
It’ very nice. Thank you very much!
MARY CHRISMAS
Ahh..it’s snowing on wordpress as well as outside! ;( *hates snow*.
Thanks for the snow. Happy White Merry Christmas:)
Wow, snowmen so lovely! Like these very much, thank you!
When I first logged in to work, I noticed something falling but really didn’t give no thought to it. Now I’m paying attention and I like it. It snows here a few times during the winter months and I enjoy it then and really enjoy this unique feature here. The feature brings more life to the platform and uplifts your spirit, and it LOOK good! Thank you for the new feature and hope to see it continue here.
Snow fall is just so good! Gives a complete feeling of winters!! Thanks!!! 🙂
Ah, this made my blog complete for sure! Thank you, thank you! Happy holidays 🙂
thanks for the snow!!!
happy holidays! 🙂
Well, I don’t really like that, but maybe I’ll enable it on Christmas Eve.
Great idea anyway!
snow sucks but it rocks on wordpress
can’t tell you how happy I am that the snow is back! Thank you!
that’s wicked! [but makes me chillsome too…brrrr]
I so miss the snow in Northern Michigan! (Shout out from another Michigander!) I’m stuck in Georgia, so this will bump my spirits a little bit. Thanks.
Right when it started snowing in Toronto for the first time CURSE YOU WORDPRESS, CURSE YOU~!
Hi
Thanks for the snow feature again this year 🙂 🙂 I have a grey background on my blog and it shows up really well.
We don’t get much snow in the UK these days, but its such fun to have virtual snow instead.
Great work and great feature. You guys rock!
Best wishes for the holidays
Billie 🙂
Thank You very much for this beautiful gift. I’m really enjoying the snow. Love it!
Snow Drops… Snow Man?
Man I wish it snowed here I would be freezing my but off all day.
I am too excited.. I actually got it to work on my blog… SNOW! It was so easy. Being in San Diego this is the only snow that I will get this year! Thanks for the tip
The “snow” matched the true snow of my blog header picture …. a nice touch! Thank you!
Love it!
Thanks for the snow! Even downtown San Francisco has a little bit of it… well more like tiny little ice pellets. 🙂
we totally ♥ it!
i like the snow
Any chance this can be disabled in the blog admin? Can be a bit distracting when trying to write a post 😛
Hey, I’m from Michigan too. We live in North Carolina now… never thought I’d miss the snow, but come Christmas – I always do.
Thanks for this neat tip! 🙂
I love the snow, can it go through Jan. Then rain or flowers for spring; sun for summer and leaves for fall? JK but it would be fun!
This will be great with a city type theme. Absolutely thanks for this. always great to have a bit of christmas cheer here! Thanks!
Nice, I like the snow feature :).
Thanks! I’m loving the snow again this year! I’ve only ever had one white Xmas – normally it’s summery hot in Melbourne, Australia in December…
i totally love it 🙂 thanks!
Great idea! Thanks. At least I can have some simulated snow because in my country we are in the middle of summer!! And believe it or not I have never seen snow in my life!!
I’d totally forgotten about this until one of my readers told me it was snowing on my blog. Awesome!
Love it! Maybe you could consider switching it off for mobile devices?
The Bahamas does not snow but ilovesnow so let it snow.
Yey!!
I loves the snow.
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ITSgood to see the snow on blog it would be real nice to see snow in the bahamas
Oh thank you for such a beautiful feature. I’m so in the mood for Christmas! Blessed Christmas everyone!
well us over here just feels awful for those people in the west area’s such as Flagstaff, Az whom are about to get (if not already) hit with a blizzard. Stay safe out there and be blessed this holiday season.
alright! northern michigan! that makes two of us!
I love the snow, thanks 🙂