snow
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Is there some way to make it ‘snow’ on my website? I think I heard that it’s possible to do this for the holiday. If it is, how do you do it?
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Click on “My Site” scroll down on the left to “Settings”, then scroll down on the right to tick “Holiday snow” and “save settings”. Remember if it gets too deep, you’ll have to dig your site out!
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And if you feel a-drift you can turn it off for all WordPressdotcom sites you visit in your account settings https://wordpress.com/me/account
/hands out hot cocoa and biscotti.
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I’ve spent the last hour setting up an indoor snowing xmas tree so I’m already at snow overload!
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I live on a forested island on a forested property. Here we have to be watchful lest someone chooses to take their family to “hunt for a tree”. I can’t imagine anyone thinking the spirit of the season is bound up in committing tree theft from either a park or a private property, and passing that onto their kids, but we have caught some red-handed and red-faced. In those cases we took pictures of the whole family, the license plates on their vehicles and we kept the trees they cut down. They were lucky that we did not choose to expose their theft in the local newspaper and to the police.
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Not sure if I should start a new topic or post here but the snow is not working on my blog. It shows up at the very bottom (scroll all the way down) as white lines going horizontal. It does this every year, and every year I have to post in here and then someone “fixes” it. I just wish the fix would last.
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Last year Kokkieh said:-
What’s causing this is your “Spread the Word” widget, or more specifically, the HTML code that’s displayed in that widget. If you remove that widget (temporarily) the snow should display as normal. That’s the only workaround I can offer you at this time, aside from disabling the feature completely (Settings ->General on My Sites).
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Snow was falling on my site for a week. Not snowing today with latest Firefox browser (FF 50.0.2), despite no change in the setting at General Settings > Snow. Snowfall does work with Google Chrome.
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staff-ozmodiar,
Thanks. I haven’t figured out what’s blocking it yet on FF. Disabling Adblock doesn’t have an effect.
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@doc FWIW I also see snow falling on your site in FF (had to open a private browsing window because I have snow blocked on all WPcom sites).
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Thanks. : ) It does work in FF private browsing on my setup too, but not otherwise. I don’t know why/how it’s blocked in normal FF browsing.
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I’ve detected the cause of the snow being blocked. At General Settings Holiday Snow is enabled, but at Account Settings it was disabled. I don’t recall disabling it at Account Settings and hadn’t even known about that setting, so I still don’t know why it worked for a week and then stopped.
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Nor do I understand why private browsing would somehow ignore the setting at Account Settings.
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Thanks.
Very odd.
Yes. Ordinarily if there are settings on different pages affecting the same outcome, changing the setting on one page will result in it being changed on the other page. For example, you can change the site title at either WP Admin General Settings or at Customize > Site Identity, and the front page can be set at Customize > Static Front Page or at WP Admin Reading Settings.
That doesn’t happen with the Holiday Snow settings at Account Settings and General Settings. These settings do the same thing, turn snow on or off, but I find that they operate independently, and the former (at Account Settings) overrules the latter.
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they operate independently
Not exactly. The boxes affecting snow at Account Settings and General Settings must be checked or unchecked independently, but they are not independently effective.
Some test results:
1. A check in the “Show snowfall on WordPress.com sites” box at Account Settings is effective only if the “Show falling snow on my blog until January 4th” box is also checked at General Settings (Calypso or WP Admin). The reverse is also true. A check in the “Show falling snow on my blog until January 4th” box at General Settings only works if the corresponding box at Account Settings is checked.2. The two “Show falling snow on my blog until January 4th” settings at Calypso and WP Admin don’t work in perfect harmony. If both are off and the Calypso “snow” setting is checked, then updating the WP Admin General Settings page results in a check automatically being placed in the setting on that page as well.
However, if both are off and you place a check at the WP Admin General Settings “snow” box, then updating the Calypso General Settings page does not result in a check being placed in the box there as well.
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I’m aware that the Account Settings “snow” setting affects the entire account whereas the setting at a site’s General Settings page affects only that site.
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