Add Twinkling Fairy Lights in Divi

Written by Dan Mossop

Why not brighten your Divi theme up this holiday with some festive fairy lights. Here's how to add fairy lights to any Divi section, row or module. Like this:

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

To achieve this, first add the following PHP code to your site. It's reasonably long, but don't worry – you shouldn't have to modify it in any way:

if (!function_exists('divibooster_add_fairy_lights_to_section')) {
	
	function divibooster_add_fairy_lights_to_section($output, $render_slug, $module) {
		
		if (is_string($output) && isset($module->props['module_class']) && in_array('fairy-lights', explode(' ', $module->props['module_class']))) {
			
			// Create the fairy lights HTML
			$fairy_lights = '<div class="fairy-lights-inner" style="">';
			
			// Cycle through the colors for each light
			for($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) { 
				$color = '';
				switch($i % 4) {
					case 0 : $color = 'fairy-light-red'; break;
					case 1 : $color = 'fairy-light-green'; break;
					case 2 : $color = 'fairy-light-yellow'; break;
					case 3 : $color = 'fairy-light-blue'; break;
				}
				$fairy_lights .= '<span class="' . $color . '"></span>'; // ETModules lightbulb icon
			}
			$fairy_lights .= '</div>';

			// Insert our fairy lights HTML just inside the main element
			$output = preg_replace('/^(<div [^>]*>)/', '$1' . $fairy_lights, $output, 1);
		}

		return $output;
	}
	add_filter('et_module_shortcode_output', 'divibooster_add_fairy_lights_to_section', 10, 3);
}

if (!function_exists('divibooster_fairy_lights_css')) {

function divibooster_fairy_lights_css() {
?>
<style>
/* Position the fairy lights container */
.fairy-lights-inner {
	width: 100%;
  	text-align: center;
  	overflow: hidden;
  	white-space: nowrap;
  	font-size: 24px;
  	line-height: 1;
	font-family: 'ETModules' !important;
	position: absolute;
	top:0;
	left:0;
}

/* Style the individual lights */
.fairy-lights-inner span {		
	transform: scale(.9,1) rotate(180deg);
	display: inline-block;
	padding: 20px 10px 0px;
}
	
/* Animate the colors */
.fairy-light-red {
  color: #D22D2D; /* Classic red color */
  text-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(210, 45, 45, 1), 0 0 10px rgba(210, 45, 45, 1), 0 0 10px rgba(210, 45, 45, 1); /* Red glow */
  animation: twinkle 1.5s infinite alternate;
}

.fairy-light-green {
  color: #0F8B0F; /* Traditional green color */
  text-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(15, 139, 15, 1), 0 0 10px rgba(15, 139, 15, 1), 0 0 10px rgba(15, 139, 15, 1); /* Green glow */
  animation: twinkle 1.6s infinite alternate;
}

.fairy-light-yellow {
  color: #FFD700; /* Gold color */
  text-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(255, 215, 0, 1), 0 0 10px rgba(255, 215, 0, 1), 0 0 10px rgba(255, 215, 0, 1); /* Gold glow */
  animation: twinkle 1.7s infinite alternate;
}

.fairy-light-blue {
  color: #87CEEB; /* Soft blue, akin to silver/blue */
  text-shadow: 0 0 10px rgba(135, 206, 235, 1), 0 0 10px rgba(135, 206, 235, 1), 0 0 10px rgba(135, 206, 235, 1); /* Soft blue glow */
  animation: twinkle 1.8s infinite alternate;
}

@keyframes twinkle {
  0% { opacity: 0.2; }
  100% { opacity: 1; }
}

/* String */
.fairy-lights-inner span:before {
    position: absolute;
    bottom: -5px;
    content: "";
    border: 1px solid #999;
    border-bottom-width: 0;
    border-left-width: 0;
    border-radius: 50%;
    padding: 3px 9px;
    width: 50%;
    border-right-width: 0;
    right: 0%;
    opacity: 0.5;
}
</style>
<?php
}
	
add_action('wp_head', 'divibooster_fairy_lights_css');
}

Now, on any section, row or module that you want to add fairy lights to, just give it a CSS Class of "fairy-lights", like so: 

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About Dan Mossop

Dan is a Scottish-born web developer, now living in Brisbane with his wife and son. He has been sharing tips and helping users with Divi since 2014. He created Divi Booster, the first Divi plugin, and continues to develop it along with 20+ other Divi plugins. Dan has a PhD in Computer Science, a background in web security and likes a lot of stuff, 

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