Seasonal Effects is the ultimate toolkit for holiday marketing and seasonal decorations.

🚀 Boost Black Friday & Cyber Monday Sales
Create urgency with countdown timers, flash sale banners, and exclusive “Sale Mode” animations like falling price tags and shopping bags.

🎃 Spooky Halloween Effects – Crawling spiders, floating ghosts, flying bats, fog effects
🎄 Festive Christmas Vibes – Winter themes with falling snow, lights, and ornaments
🎆 Celebration Ready – New Year fireworks, confetti, and balloons
💝 Valentine’s Day – Floating hearts, heart confetti, and pulsating hearts
🐣 Easter – Easter eggs and hopping bunnies
🔊 Sound Effects – Optional themed sounds (witch laugh, wolf howl, jingle bells, fireworks and more)

🛍️ Black Friday & Cyber Monday Features

Maximize your Q4 revenue with dedicated tools:
* Countdown Timers: Create FOMO with urgent timers in your notice bar.
* Sale Animations: Falling “Sale” tags, shopping bags, and discount icons.
* Cyber Effects: Matrix rain and glitch effects perfect for Cyber Monday tech deals.
* Pre-built Templates: One-click setup for Black Friday (Dark/Red) and Cyber Monday (Neon/Tech).
* Scheduled Campaigns: Set start/end dates for your sales banners automatically.

✨ Key Features

6 Beautiful Animations:
* 🦇 Flying Bats – Smooth flight patterns
* 👻 Floating Ghosts – Mysterious floating
* 🎃 Running Pumpkin – Rolling across screen
* 🍂 Falling Leaves – Autumn atmosphere
* 🕷️ Crawling Spiders – Realistic crawling motion
* 🌫️ Fog Effect – Multi-layer fog drift

Smart Controls:
* Individual on/off toggles
* Count controls for each effect
* Speed variations (slow/medium/fast)
* Mobile device support
* Display location targeting

Notice Bar System:
* 🎨 Advanced Design: Gradients, background images, and custom colors
* ⏱️ Countdown Timer: 5 styles (Simple, Rounded, Square, Filled, Circle)
* 👁️ Visibility Rules: Show on specific pages (Home, Blog, Posts, CPTs)
* 🍪 Smart Closing: Session-based, time-based (1h/1d/7d), or permanent dismissal
* 📱 Responsive: Top/Bottom positioning with mobile support
* 📝 Rich Content: Full WYSIWYG editor with color and font size controls

⏱️ Countdown Timer Block & Shortcode:
* Add a live countdown anywhere: the Countdown Timer block, or the [seasonal_effects_countdown] shortcode for classic editor, widgets and page builders
* 5 styles (Simple, Rounded, Square, Filled, Circle), 3 sizes, long or short labels, custom colors
* Uses your site’s timezone, so every visitor counts down to the same moment
* Shows the real time immediately (no “00:00” flash) and swaps to your own message when it ends
* Loads its small CSS/JS only on pages that contain a timer

5 Sales Templates:
* ⚫ Black Friday: High-converting dark theme with red accents
* 💻 Cyber Monday: Modern neon/tech aesthetic
* 🎄 Christmas Sale: Festive holiday colors
* ⭐ Special Offer: High contrast attention grabber
* ⚡ Flash Sale: Urgent gradient design

🎯 Perfect For

Black Friday / Cyber Monday Sales
Holiday themed websites
Seasonal sales and promotions
Event announcements
Blog posts and articles
E-commerce stores
Portfolio sites

⚡ Performance

CSS-driven animations with a small script
Assets load only when an effect is enabled
GPU-accelerated transformations
Mobile-optimized
60fps smooth animations

🔒 Privacy & Security

No external API calls from your visitors’ browsers (the optional admin newsletter sign-up and deactivation survey are described under External services)
No data collection
No tracking cookies
All settings stored in your own database
Notice bar dismissal is remembered in the visitor’s browser only

👨‍💻 Developer

Created with 🎃 by Sanjay Shankar

Connect:
* WordPress Profile
* GitHub
* LinkedIn
* Website

Support Development:
* Buy Me a Coffee ☕

External services

Used only when an admin chooses to. Visitors never trigger them.

Newsletter (Brevo): when an admin clicks Subscribe, their email, first name and the plugin name are sent to Brevo. Terms, Privacy
Deactivation survey (Google Apps Script): when an admin clicks Send & deactivate, the reason, comment, plugin, WordPress, WooCommerce and PHP versions, admin language and, if the contact box is ticked, their name and email are sent to the author’s Google Sheet. Terms, Privacy

Seasonal Effects & Notice Bar (formerly Halloween Animations)

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