Init FX Engine – Interactive, Event-Driven, Lightweight

Init FX Engine brings modern, interactive visual effects to your WordPress site — from fireworks to snowfall, emoji rain, and more. All effects are fully customizable, and can be triggered via keywords, shortcodes, Block Editor blocks, or special events.

🎉 Celebrate milestones with fireworks or cannon blasts 💬 Let users experience emoji reactions and heart rain in comments ❄️ Schedule snowfall automatically or set your own custom dates 🎃 Seasonal holiday scenes: Halloween, Christmas, New Year, Lunar New Year (Tết), Valentine, Mid-Autumn 🎆 Real fireworks show for New Year’s Eve and celebrations ⚙️ Lightweight, fully customizable engine with intuitive UI 🖤 Grayscale mode for solemn occasions or national mourning ⏳ Animated preloaders to enrich user experience

Not just an effect plugin — this is an FX Engine for WordPress.

This plugin is part of the Init Plugin Suite — a collection of minimalist, fast, and developer-focused tools for WordPress.

GitHub repository: https://github.com/brokensmile2103/init-fx-engine

What’s New in v2.0.1: – Seasonal Effects : holiday scenes floating over your site — 🎃 Halloween bats & ghosts, 🎄 Christmas gifts, 🎉 New Year sparkles, 🌸 Tết (Lunar New Year) blossoms & lucky money, 💖 Valentine hearts, 🏮 Mid-Autumn lanterns rising into the sky – Built-in holiday calendar : switches theme automatically, including Tết and the Mid-Autumn Festival computed from the Vietnamese lunar calendar (UTC+7) – Themed greeting once per visit: a real fireworks show on New Year, lucky money rain on Tết, and more – 5 new effects : Halloween Burst, Lucky Money (Tết), Fireworks Show, Snow Burst, Lantern Rise — usable with keywords, shortcodes and the FX Trigger block – Faster frontend : lighter DOM scanning, cached effect shapes, lazy-loaded fireworks library

What’s New in v2.0.0: – Block Editor (Gutenberg) support : a native FX Trigger block, grouped under its own Init FX Engine category in the block inserter. The block shares the exact same rendering code as its [initfxen-fx] shortcode counterpart, with a live preview right in the editor – Requires at least raised from 5.5 to 6.9

Highlights: – Native Block Editor block: FX Trigger — with live preview in the editor – Interactive visual effects: Firework, Emoji Rain, Heart Rain, Cannon Blast, Starlight, Celebration Burst, Halloween Burst, Lucky Money, Fireworks Show, Snow Burst, Lantern Rise – Seasonal Effects with a built-in holiday calendar (Halloween, Christmas, New Year, Tết, Valentine, Mid-Autumn), custom schedule or always-on mode – Preloader (loading screen) with 6 styles: Dot Dot Dot, Bar, Logo, Flower, Spinner, Emoji – Supports gradient or solid background for preloader – Auto-fetch favicon for logo-based animation – Snowfall effect with date scheduler (auto/custom) – Grayscale mode (manual or scheduled) – Shortcode [initfxen-fx-ambient] for ambient background animation – Keywords to trigger effects inside comments or post content – Real-time preview of effects in settings page – Lightweight, extensible, and multilingual-ready