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I just discovered looking at some additional statistics that visitors were finding it hard to find download links on this site, so I have decided that they should be on my front page.

I am not going to link directly to the files, because it is important to also read the release notes.

Snowfall Plugin Download Page

Of particular note with this plugin is its reliance on having a hook available in the footer of your theme. If there isn’t one available, the plugin will try to add one by itself, if the template is writable.

A better option is just to add < ?php wp_footer(); ?> before the closing body tag if your footer.php file does not have a footer hook.

If this hook exists and is located within the main CSS DIV for your template, the plugin might work perfectly, or some funny things might appear on screen such as snow falling behind the page. If this happens, experiment with moving that hook outside the main DIV.

Another frequent problem is borders around the falling snowflakes. This happens usually because your theme designer decided that every graphic placed on your blog needs to have a nice border.
The fast way to fix this is to remove the border globally, though if this continues to be a problem I might try to add a workaround for this in the plugin.

Always make a backup first, and I don’t accept any liability if you break things.

Only One Plugin?

I have only released this plugin so far, other plugins are in development, and will be released either here or on their own seperate domain.

Updates to this Plugin?

They will happen in the future. I spent a long time offline this year so am constantly in catch-up mode. This plugin is just cosmetic, so of the ones in development are a lot more complicated and are eating up lots of development resources.

Links and Comments

I welcome all links and comments. On this blog I use a “dofollow” plugin, so a comment is a backlink, and trackbacks give you a reciprocal link.
The original domain for this site was changed just a few weeks ago, but is receiving a 301 redirect from the original domain. It already receives traffic based on its old PR5 rating, though the Google toolbar won’t be updated for a couple more months.