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!
That’s right, it’s that special time of year where you can show off your holiday cheer with a little special blog flair — falling snow. To get it started:
- Go to your dashboard.
- Navigate to Settings » General.
- Check the box next to “Show falling snow on this blog.”
- Roast some chestnuts.
Even Texas boys like me who only saw snow a handful of times growing up can enjoy it all month long, until we turn it off on January 4th.
If you are a terrible Grinch or if the snow just slows down your computer or confuses your cat, you can go to your personal settings page and hide the snow everywhere you go.
Love it! #winteriscoming
I just activated mine! It’s so cute, it’s such a warm start for the month. Too bad I can’t feel the same about the actual snow when it falls outside, haha.
Thanks for the cute script and happy holidays! 😀
Thanks for the heads-up on the falling snow feature – I have turned mine on. Personally, I prefer the Dean Martin version!
Thank you! I love the snow!
Cool! I just looked for it today 🙂
Oh yeah! I have just seen it and of course it is already enabled!
I really like this add on 😀
Happy Christmas holidays to all 😀
I always look forward to the falling snow. Thanks for bringing it back for another year!
Nice pun on the lyrics! That definitely made me smile this morning. I also used the Let it snow plugin for a site I set up.
I changed my header recently and was waiting for the snowfall to be available. I love this every year. 😀
Mans you be crayzee!
I shall be turning this on at some point nearer to Christmas 😀
Can you arrange home delivery of spiked egg nog and elves to put up my tree, too? Because then I would feel the season is complete… 😉
Fun option — you guys always come up with creative touches. I’m a fan!
Let it snow! ♥ it!
Thank you for the option of turning it off. Naked ladies should not be left out in the snow.
As a resident of the balmy West Coast of Canada, where we rarely if every see the real live white stuff outside, I love this cyber snow!!!
i just googled this today to try and find out when the snow was arriving on wordpress 🙂 i always look forward to it! thanks so much!
Love it!! Thank you WP!! I have black and white branches on my site and the snow looks so cool!
Yeah, it’s snowing! I love this WordPress annual celebration of winter!
I wait for this every year – LOVE IT – but I don’t see the “show falling snow on this blog” when I navigate to Settings – General. HELP!!!! I’m like Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye and what’s her name – I NEED SNOW!!!!!!.
OH. Guess I have to go to a forum for help.
WordPress, you did it again! Used this on my blog, and it looks really nice.
Love it! Thank you!
Well, isn’t this cool! Even with my slightly-out-of-date Mac OS (10.4) it works just fine. Thanks for the nice Christmas present!
Looks good on my blog – thanks!
Just put it on my page , thanks a lot and it goes with the fact that my page is all about weather!! … https://northeasternnjwx.wordpress.com/
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Hmmmm…..heard of Australia?!? It’s SUMMER n the Southern Hemisphere folks!!
This was just the cutest way to announce the snow feature. “Cool” post! Of course, now the kids won’t leave me alone because I told them Santa made it snow on mom’s blog.
If only it were that possible to hide the snow everywhere! lol Unfortunately, I fear I’ll see much snow this winter, regardless of my settings on my dashboard. 🙂
I must be missing something. I can’t see where to turn on the snow.
Southern hemisphere has a decent slice of the world population. It is summer here. http://www.google.com.au/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=weather+in+sydney
I am loving the snow!! Even here in Norway we are still snowless so at least I can let it snow on my blog 😀 Thanks!
(from Taipei) Man, this kicks .. love that merry xmas Matt and all wordpress bloggers !!! ..
This is sooo cool 😀 Loving the snow and hoping for a white Christmas in England!
Thank you!
Thanks, Matt. This is really neat!
Ha… Very cool indeed!
Thank you!
Thank you for snow:) We don’t get it in the Southern Hemisphere because it’s summer. How lovely for a virtual white christmas:)
Great! Awesome!
Lively feelings. lively thoughts foster them well and loudly tell
Positively do something, make sure they don’t die down the well
Thanks! It’s delightful to use. Goes great with the Christmas theme.
Do you have a theme for Thanksgiving? Or maybe get one?
There isn’t a Thanksgiving one, but maybe using the feature filter button in the theme showcase will help you find one. For example, here’s a search by color for brown. Or maybe you could add a Thanksgiving custom header image.
Thank you for the snow! I love it!
I changed my header photo to a winter scene. The snow is fitting! Thanks for the cool option!
Love it! Great feature for the season.
Thanks!
Yay! I love the snow. It doesn’t snow much where I live either. So happy it’s back!
Well, I don’t know yet whether I’ll welcome snow to my blog, especially because it’s on it’s way outside, for real, but I do know this. I’m definitely going to follow YOUR blog, snow or no snow. You, sir, are FUNNY!
Poetry is great for all humankind
thx men Merry Christmas all
So beautiful, thanks Matt…its beginning to look alot like Christmas…
Thank you so much! This “function” really makes our blog more lively!! I loveeeeeeee it so much! Thanks thanks and thanks 😀
Magical! Snow looks great on my blog.
I’m with Pete. It’s summer in Brisbane, 30 deg centigrade, and I imagine quite a few WordPress bloggers get a bit weary of the automatic assumption that we all live in the same part of the world.
You can always turn off the snow and think about Brisbane sunshine instead. 🙂
snow is back!
Love the snow!
It will be warm more and more with love and care when the Christmas come!!!
Amazing…love how it looks!!!! thanks 🙂
Thanks so much Matt. I love the snow. I changed my background to green, which I just discovered I could do, and it looks extremely festive.
Love it! Thank you!
We had some snow here.
More is coming.
A bit colder
A merry christmas.
Good function!!!!!
It would be cool if it worked in Mobile.
Very cool
Just added the snow…i love it!
Thanks for the heads up! I love making things festive!! 😀
yeah it’s cold out there.
And in Australia, where it’s just gone summer, we’re left out in the cold! 😉
Haven’t tried out the snow thing, but I love the idea. (I’ll try it in the morning) Thank you!
I’ll admit that I’m easily amused, but I LOVE this! Thank you!!! 🙂
Ha. Scratch that, I just activated it; super cute!
I LOVE this!
LLS
Thank you thank you thank you! This is the only snow a Louisiana girl can get!!! 🙂
Very nice!! I liked poems like that!!
Love it! Thanks for the nice article and the snow feature!
Um… it’s summer here. Our Christmas is beach, bbq and sun.
Lucky! Although, I must admit that I love snow adventures and Summer BBQs equally. 😉
I’m in Australia too, but I still think it’s Grinchy to complain. With the joys of the world wide interwebs, we get to enjoy blogging on a site that is hosted in a hemisphere where it’s winter. That’s okay with me if they want to add novelty to the process!
Holiday is coming! Can’t wait 😀
Welcome to the world , 😉
It’s way too cool in my office right now…..what are those white things falling across my screen??? Thanks, Matt! Myra Smith
I’m Vietnamese, I haven’t seen snow before but I like it……
Yes! WordPress you are my hero.
Thanks for posting the Frank Sinatra version. His version is by far the best of this song.
Really nice touch to our posts!
Thank you.
Well I have never experienced a snow.. In my country snow is not a common.. but fog is.. I must be missing a very interesting moment.. I hope someday I will get chance to experience snow.
Living in Houston, Texas, means this may be the only snow fall I see this winter.
It’s cool 😀
Yeah, the snow effect is coming again, cool!!!
You made me smile! Thanks for the snow! 🙂
Nice idea..
It is freezing here in Jordan
Even Texas ‘Men’ like me? 🙂
Oh, yeah, that! I so love this feature.
So is this only for sites hosted by WordPress.com or is it also for self hosted sites that use WordPress.org? The last couple messages I’ve got about updates that were supposed to happen automatically actually never happened and it’s getting a bit disappointing.
This is the WordPress.com news blog and so the announcements are primarily about WordPress.com features. You can stay updated with the main WordPress.org project at the WordPress.org news blog.
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Hi, I live in South Africa where snow falls in certain regions more regularly than where we live. We are about 65km east of Johannesburg. We occasionally see snow or sleet. Being winter in the northern Hemisphere, I will add snow to my blog for the people up north.
Personally, I like the summer and autumn seasons best for their beauty and colours.
Thanks
Thanks Matt for that falling snow–fun for the holiday season!
Happy holidays!
Fabulous! Again, I am so not regretting leaving FB for this site. Thanks and Merry Christmas!
I like it. Does look like snow. But, also, because of my header for TimeVoyager1, it also looks like traveling through space – stars passing by at warp drive speed – instead of snowflakes. So there you have it, Matt… design a star field in motion for a space header and/or background. Beam me up when ready – hopefully before the snow gets too deep! I’m in Oklahoma.
It’s so cute! I think it kind of works with our blog, given its black-and-gray scheme and austere look.
Happy Christmas!
Thank you for making the default “no snow,” and allowing users to choose to display it or not. At least with this snow, we don’t have to shovel the sidewalk or driveway or spend an hour brushing it off the car, wherever it might be. 🙂
I love the snow application on our website! Its just in time for the seasons. 😉
It would be cool if you add option to change speed of snow falling and number of dots per screen.
ooh i love this! i may just have to check it out ~ thanks so much for the christmas cheer!!
xx ~ kristina
Uuuuuh, I’ve been waiting for this – love it! Many thanks!