Best halloween plugins for WordPress
The most popular halloween plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Weather Effect leads with 4K+ active installs, ahead of Simple Halloween Decoration For Your Page (80+) and Halloween Panda (70+). All 13 plugins tagged “halloween” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 halloween plugins
- 1.
Weather EffectThe most installed halloween plugin, with 4K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 30 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Simple Halloween Decoration For Your Page80+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 3.
Halloween Panda70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 4.
Halloween Countdown50+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 6 days ago.
- 5.
Halloween Effects20+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 6.
Boom Fest20+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.
Halloween Countdown Widget10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 8.
Fancy Events Plugin10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1.
- 9.
DigiFest10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
- 10.
Haloween Woocommerce10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
All 13 plugins tagged “halloween”
Weather Effect
#3,379by A WP Life1 month ago
Add animated falling effects like snow, rain, autumn leaves, and seasonal decorations to your website.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.5(30)
- Downloads
- 58/day
Simple Halloween Decoration For Your Page
Down in the last 7 days:295#17,906by Maximilian Fink6 years ago
The plugin simply adds spiders and bugs that run across your site - the perfect halloween-decoration for your site!
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Halloween Panda
Down in the last 7 days:1,746#18,367by pixolette6 years ago
Halloween decorations plugin for WordPress. Decorate your WordPress website with pumpkins, ghosts, scary carrots, bats or just display a pop-up to rem …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Halloween Countdown
Down in the last 7 days:317#20,824by Halloween Blog6 days ago
🎃 A simple countdown to Halloween. [hcount]
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Halloween Effects
#25,285by Dy Experts1 year ago
Add a spooky Halloween touch to your WordPress site with falling effects and a fun animation of a ghost or pumpkin floating across the screen.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Boom Fest
#28,316by ibsofts2 months ago
For decoration of pages according to festival.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day
Halloween Countdown Widget
Down in the last 7 days:1,225#30,616by Monica Haught1 year ago
Get into the Halloween spirit with a cute countdown widget for your sidebar!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fancy Events Plugin
#33,118by evilripper15 years ago
Fancy Events is a html5 plugin to celebrate an event in a fun way, it will decorate your home with a cascade of images that fall from above.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DigiFest
Down in the last 7 days:6,570#39,415by digitalinnovationglobal13 days ago
Seasonal visual effects and announcement banners for WordPress & WooCommerce: bats in Halloween, snow in Christmas, and festive atmosphere animations.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Haloween Woocommerce
Down in the last 7 days:967#44,762by WP Kraken8 years ago
Get your WooCommerce-based shop ready for Halloween! With 50 beautiful Halloween icons to choose from, you can reward your customers for using your we …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Halloween Box
#71,777by nath4n6 years ago
Change the post, page (the content) CSS into Halloween Style and "Happy Halloween!" :)
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Code Live Snow
#72,553by Muhammad usman javed7 days ago
Lightweight snow and holiday effects: Christmas, Halloween, New Year, Valentine's, Easter, Autumn, Ramadan & Eid. Colours, presets, auto calendar.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 54/day