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Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects · Version history

Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects changelog and version history

Latest version
3.8.0
Oct 24, 2026 (15 days ago)
Releases
21
since 2018
In the last year
10
about one every 36 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.2
PHP 8.3 or later

Releases each year

  • 20181 release
  • 20231 release
  • 20245 releases
  • 20256 releases
  • 20268 releases

20268 releases

  1. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.8.0Latest

    • added WordPress 7.2 compatibility
    • raised the minimum PHP requirement to 8.3
    • added a redesigned icon picker with search, an icon set filter, keyboard navigation and recently used icons
    • updated FontAwesome to 7.3.1; icons saved with the previous version keep working
    • changed effect and transition settings to show as one group with their current values
    • changed global custom JavaScript to be editable only by users allowed to post unfiltered HTML
    • improved block editor loading: icons (about 2 MB) load only when the icon picker opens
    • removed the Instagram and Twitter blocks, whose services shut down the APIs they used; saved blocks print nothing on the site
    • removed the breakpoints dropdown from the editor top bar; the device toggles in block settings still preview each breakpoint
    • changed the Accordion to fire show, hide, show, shown when opening an item is interrupted by a close
    • security fix: visitors could read draft and private templates and make the site fetch remote templates
    • security fix: custom CSS could close the tag it is printed in and add HTML to the page
    • fixed custom CSS losing rules that use nesting with &, child selectors, range media queries or <style> tags
    • fixed the Custom CSS popover closing when switching devices, and its device list being cut off
    • fixed the Accordion looking different in the editor than on the site
    • fixed Lottie animations with a relative file URL not playing in the editor
    • fixed Carousel Slide text missing from post excerpts
    • Pro:
    • added a Stagger option to the Reveal effect to animate inner blocks one by one
    • added the Lucide icon set, and updated Heroicons to 2.2 and Octicons to 19.41
    • added a link on the Updates page to where the license key is
    • improved scroll performance: scroll effects that animate only opacity and position run on the browser’s scroll timelines; elements on a timeline no longer fire update.effects.scroll.gkt on each frame
    • improved CPU use on idle pages with effects
    • security fix: users without access to settings could call the Adobe Fonts (Typekit) route
    • fixed rotating effects losing their perspective on the first frame
    • fixed the Image Scroller not animating back when the pointer leaves it

  2. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.7.2

    • fixed a critical error on sites where another plugin ships a different version of the same CSS parser, which showed up as “Declaration of Sabberworm\CSS\Value\Size::render() must be compatible” once the custom breakpoints styles were rebuilt
    • changed custom breakpoints to be applied to the shipped stylesheets directly instead of compiling styles on the site, so the change takes effect on the next page load
    • fixed RTL sites loading the left-to-right stylesheets for blocks, the editor and the settings pages
    • Pro:
    • fixed one failed plugin update on the Plugins screen leaving the remaining queued updates waiting for a page reload
    • fixed RTL sites loading the left-to-right stylesheets of the Pro blocks on the frontend and in the editor

  3. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.7.1

    • changed Ghost Kit to stay active next to Ghost Kit Pro instead of being deactivated
    • Pro:
    • fixed effects sometimes not running, leaving blocks with a reveal effect hidden on the page

  4. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.7.0

    • added WordPress 7.1 compatibility
    • added a Privacy-Enhanced Mode toggle to the Video block, shown once the entered URL is a YouTube one
    • changed YouTube embeds to use the regular YouTube host by default, because the privacy-enhanced host asks a share of visitors to sign in before it plays anything
    • fixed block icons and the custom color palette not reaching the blocks they style in the editor
    • fixed the typography preview not applying in the editor
    • fixed PHP warnings logged by the Table of Contents and Widgetized Area blocks
    • raised the minimum PHP requirement to 7.4
    • Pro:
    • fixed tooltips never appearing in the editor
    • fixed the update notice still offering a version already installed
    • added a capability check to the license activation request

  5. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.6.1

    • fixed stored XSS from contributors via Customizer post meta (ghostkit_customizer_options)
    • hardened Customizer post meta with permission checks, sanitization, and frontend filtering
    • fixed Gutenberg post saves failing when unchanged protected post meta was included in the REST request
    • allow local typography editing for users with edit_post on the post; global typography editing requires edit_theme_options

  6. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.6.0

    • added WordPress 7.0 compatibility
    • improved frontend assets detection — centralize block.json handles, extensions, style variants, and effects markers in GhostKit_Assets_Detector
    • added gkt_icons_detected_packs filter to enqueue only icon packs used on the page
    • added editor filters for responsive preview sizes (mediaSizes, previewWidth)
    • fixed GitHub Gist block stylesheet lookup and gist-simple script registration in the editor
    • fixed Gist and Lottie block assets loading in the block editor
    • fixed Table of Contents REST request params sanitization
    • fixed URL Picker inspector layout overrides scope in the editor
    • fixed Pricing Table Item features list editing (replaced deprecated RichText multiline)
    • fixed quote to testimonial transform preserving content
    • fixed editor compatibility with stable Gutenberg controls and removed deprecations
    • use WordPress admin theme CSS variables for accent UI colors
    • minor changes and fixes
    • Pro:
    • fixed custom Breakpoints styles not loading from uploads on the frontend
    • fixed Breakpoints settings validation when editing values in settings
    • synced editor responsive preview with saved Pro breakpoint widths

  7. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.5.1

    • fixed frontend general styles being enqueued in the editor, which caused style conflicts (e.g., issues with the Display extension in the editor)

  8. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.5.0

    • improve assets loading to native way
    • update wp-background-processing library to fix warnings with Visual Portfolio plugin
    • fixed progress bar viewport animation on mobile
    • fixed nested accordion styles
    • Pro:
    • improve assets loading – load only used on the page assets and not all
    • minor changes and fixes

20256 releases

  1. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.4.6

    • fixed incorrect double escaping of Effects extension attribute because of WP 6.9 changes
    • Pro:
    • fixed incorrect double escaping of Attributes extension attribute because of WP 6.9 changes

  2. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.4.5

    • Pro:
    • fixed error appear in WordPress 6.9 because of changed behavior of wp_enqueue_script_module function

  3. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.4.4

    • added permission checks to custom JS and CSS in posts meta editor (fixes possible XSS from contributors)

  4. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.4.3

    • fixed always generating heading block anchors even if it not required

  5. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.4.2

    • fixed XSS with theme template files
    • fixed block unique ID when duplicating multiple blocks
    • fixed displaying TOC heading content in editor
    • fixed Icon block rendering aria-label attribute on link
    • Pro:
    • fixed updater caching issue that sometimes caused Forbidden errors

  6. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.4.1

    • fixed blocks error in Widgets screen because ‘core/editor’ store is not available
    • updated Google Fonts list
    • Pro:
    • changed loading of module script in Code block to wp_enqueue_script_module

20245 releases

  1. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.4.0

    • added WordPress 6.7 compatibility fixes
    • significantly improved motion effects performance to prevent memory overload
    • fixed editor slow rendering when first page load and when duplicate blocks without any extensions on blocks
    • fixed displaying responsive toggle in editor header
    • fixed resizing editor preview when switch responsive toggles
    • fixed usage of wp-content hardcoded string, use constants if available
    • hidden Twitter and Instagram blocks from inserter as it is deprecated long time ago
    • removed fallback class for Breakpoints, as it is no longer required
    • minor changes
    • Pro:
    • changed text domain from ghostkit-pro to ghostkit
    • fixed displaying message about license activation in the plugins list when the license already active
    • removed Circle Button frontend script, because it is no longer used, as we have Effects extension

  2. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.3.3

    • added escaping to imageTag attribute in the Grid block to prevent xss vulnerability

  3. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.3.2

    • migrate Pro plugin from Paddle to LemonSqueezy
    • fixed customizer plugin selector settings rendering
    • fixed Color Palette plugin saving custom colors, displaying default color picker dropdown
    • fixed deprecated Templates modal loading

  4. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.3.1

  5. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 3.3.0

    • Important: the Pro plugin is now standalone and no longer requires the free plugin. If you are using Pro plugin v2, do not update the Free plugin to v3.3. Instead, update the Pro plugin and deactivate the Free one.
    • fixed Counter Box saving incorrect class names
    • fixed loading blocks in the legacy Widgets editor

20231 release

  1. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 2.25.0

    • added JS events prepareCountersObserver and prepareVideoObserver
    • improved Carousel displaying in editor (added slides per view and gap styles)
    • improved appender CSS in some blocks which uses InnerBlocks
    • fixed “Display” extension styles in editor
    • fixed TOC conflict with special characters in headings
    • fixed Form block appended overflow upper blocks
    • fixed wrong variable type usage warning
    • fixed Customizer Plugin displaying in Non Block Based themes
    • disabled Color Palette Plugin from the Block Based themes (custom colors can be added in Appearance → Editor → Styles → Colors → Palette)
    • minor changes

20181 release

  1. Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects 1.6.3

Questions about Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects’s releases

What is the latest version of Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects?

3.8.0, released on Oct 24, 2026 (2 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.2 and needs PHP 8.3 or later.

How often is Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects updated?

10 releases in the last year, about one every 36 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from December 2018.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.