About this plugin
Cozy cursor trails and tap sparkles for Christmas and every season: 13 effects, end dates, live preview, reduced-motion friendly.
Have a play: try the live demo and move your mouse around to see the effects in action.
Year-round effects: Falling Star, Fairy Dust, Fireflies and Embers.
Seasonal effects: Snowflakes, Valentine’s Hearts, Spring Blossoms, Easter Eggs, Summer Bubbles, Autumn Leaves, Halloween, Christmas and New Year Confetti. A seasonal effect can end automatically after a date you choose, in your site’s time zone, and then switch to a year-round effect or stop.
Features
- A live preview on the settings screen that uses your unsaved changes.
- Colors, size, density, speed, opacity and trail length.
- Show the effect everywhere, only on the front page, or only on the pages and posts you pick.
- Exclude any page or post.
- Optionally hide the effect from administrators.
- On touch screens, show a tap sparkle or nothing.
Accessible and unobtrusive
- Visitors whose device asks to reduce motion never see any animation.
- The effect is drawn on one transparent layer that ignores the mouse and touch, so links, buttons, forms, scrolling, text selection and the keyboard work exactly as before. Screen readers ignore it.
Lightweight
- The effect is off until you turn it on. When it is off, and on pages where it does not show, nothing is loaded.
- No jQuery, no external libraries, no web fonts and no images. Scripts load deferred, in the footer.
- The animation runs only while particles are visible and pauses in background tabs, so an idle page uses no CPU.
Privacy
Glimmerwake does not collect, store or send any personal data, sets no cookies and makes no requests to other servers. It keeps its settings in a single option in your site’s database.
For developers
- gsct_should_display filters whether the effect loads on the current request. It receives bool $display and array $settings, runs after every built-in rule and can override them.
- The --gsct-z-index CSS custom property sets the layer’s stacking order. The default is 9999.