With Halloween only a week away, the time to jazz up your blog or website with some ‘trick or treat’ spirit is now! After all, you have already started decorating your home and office with cobwebs, Jack-o’-Lanterns, skeletons and what not, then why not dress-up your website with some festive cheer too?!
We have curated some cool themes and plugins that you can try out to get your site ready for Halloween. And yes, if a complete overhaul seems like too much work for too few days, you can always ditch the themes and go for the plugins instead. The simplest thing of all would be to alter your existing theme’s color scheme to match the holiday palette. One thing is for sure, any extra effort that you put in this Halloween will surely get you noticed, and remembered, by your visitors.

Hexentanz in Haunted House

If you are someone who likes to celebrate Halloween by organizing parties or events, this theme is for you. There are two versions of the homepage and an online ticket reservation feature powered by PayPal. Some of the other features include:

• Fancy homepage with rotated cards
• CPT for Events
• Unusually styled sticky post
• Variety of custom widgets
• Lightbox for gallery images
• Selected graphic elements and fancy fonts included

Halloween

Decked up in Halloween-inspired colors of orange and black, and friendly yet spooky design, this WordPress theme does not only celebrates the spirit of the festival, it lives it. The responsive theme, which can be used for a children’s website or blog, has the following features:

• SMT Framework 2.0
• Ecwid Supported
• WooCommerce Supported
• Dynamic Content Loader
• Custom Sidebars
• Google Maps Shortcode

PartyMaker – Halloween Party

A responsive theme built with the mobile-first philosophy in mind, this little gem is loaded with the Elementor drag-and-drop page builder. There are several special giveaways that you will get with this theme built on Cherry Framework 5. Some of its features include:

• One-click installation
• Jet elements plugin
• Booked appointments plugin
• WPML ready
• TM timeline
• 4 different blog layouts

Halloween Rain

This nifty little plugin will shower pumpkins, zombies, witches, and ghosts onto your website. There are 17 different styles to pick from, and you can also decide what speed you want your spooky objects to fall. Here’s all that you can customize according to your preference:

• Activate plugin for desktop or mobile
• Combine all 17 styles or in part to make it rain
• 6 different sizes of objects
• Control and set the number of models
• Decide if you want to rain slower or faster

Holiday Countdown

This is one plugin that you will be able to use for any holiday or special occasion and not just Halloween. Easily installable in just two minutes, the Holiday Countdown plugin comes with a mobile responsive design. Its other features include:

• Count up to or down from any time and date
• Count events over time
• Easy animations
• Custom fonts, colors, and backgrounds
• Adjust sizing and spacing
• Multi-language support

Happy Halloween!