[RELEASE] Seasonal Effects Hub โ Animated Holiday Themes for XenForo (Multi-Holiday, Image-Based)
Bring every holiday to life on your forum! Introducing Seasonal Effects Hub, a lightweight but powerful XenForo add-on that adds gorgeous animated holiday effects across your entire community.
Perfect for adding atmosphere, boosting engagement, or celebrating special days throughout the year.
This add-on now includes 10 fully animated holiday themes, each customizable and using real images for smooth, vibrant effects.
Three beautiful snow modes:
- Light gentle snow
- Heavy snow with drifting motion
- Magical sparkly winter overlay
Floating heart images that drift upward with a soft romantic glow.
Softly falling autumn leaves using real leaf images.
Flying bat images + a spooky atmospheric overlay.
Colorful image-based fireworks bursting across the screen with โHappy New Year!โ banner text.
Floating Easter eggs / bunnies / spring icons rising upward with a bright pastel overlay.
Floating shamrocks, hats, coins with a festive green/gold glow.
Patriotic USA-themed icons (flags, stars, badges) rising with a red/white/blue background effect.
Floating sugar skulls, marigolds, candles with a purple/orange ceremonial glow.
Choose the active holiday under:
ACP โ Setup โ Options โ Seasonal Effects Hub
Each holiday uses its own image set (3 images each) and unique animation style.
Replace any holidayโs images by simply uploading your own PNGs into:
styles/mitchseasonal/
The add-on automatically rotates through them.
No template edits required.
Uses a clean template modification hook.
- Pure CSS + JS animation
- Minimal performance impact
- Non-intrusive overlays
- Runs cleanly over any theme or add-on
- Upload the contents of the ZIP to your XenForo root.
- Upload the mitchseasonal.zip to your styles directory
- Go to ACP โ Add-ons โ Install from archive.
- Upload the ZIP.
- Go to Setup โ Options โ Seasonal Effects Hub and select your holiday.
- Done! Animations appear instantly across your forum.
You can replace any holidayโs PNG images with your own artwork.
Just upload them to:
<span><span>styles/mitchseasonal/<br></span></span>
The names you use donโt matter โ the template uses classes like:
ea-1, ea-2, ea-3<br>stp-1, stp-2, stp-3<br>j4-1, j4-2, j4-3<br>dod-1, dod-2, dod-3<br>...<br>
As long as the background-image: paths match, your custom art will be used.