Best animation plugins for WordPress
268 plugins tagged “animation” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.

Curtain Raiser for Inaugural Ceremony
Down in the last 7 days:76#17,247by Abhishek Deshpande11 days ago
Make your website launch feel special with a simple animated curtain effect.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Init FX Engine
Up in the last 7 days:318#17,620by Init HTML1 month ago
Bring your WordPress site to life with visual effects and seasonal holiday scenes, now with native Block Editor support.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Scroll Magic Addon for WPBakery Page Builde
#18,029by magicpages6 years ago
ScrollMagic for WPBakery Page Builder makes it easy to respond to the user's current scroll position. This is the perfect plugin to create an ani …
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Advanced Block Controls (ABC)
Up in the last 7 days:1#18,111by Abder Dara11 months ago
Enhancing core Gutenberg blocks with advanced page builder controls, eliminating the need for third-party blocks to build professional websites.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Fireworks Celebration
Up in the last 7 days:32#18,257by SAM1 year ago
Fireworks Celebration allows you to display stunning fireworks effects on your website during special occasions, such as launches or inaugurations.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Slide-Up Elementor Button Animation
Down in the last 7 days:6#18,619by Jixart1 month ago
Adds a smooth slide-up text animation on hover to all Elementor buttons, preserving icons and styles.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

MotionMagic
Down in the last 7 days:188#18,624by guelben3 years ago
MotionMagic enhances Gutenberg adding beautiful CSS animations to any block. Easily add on scroll, on hover and on click animations.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Cursor Style & Animation
Down in the last 7 days:356#18,647by RoarDev2 months ago
Transform your website with beautiful cursor animations and custom cursor styles. Features 4 animation types, 10+ cursor styles, and mobile support.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Animations by Imoptimal
Down in the last 7 days:120#19,223by Ivan Maljukanović6 years ago
Accentuate most important elements on your website through animation - either when its entering the screens viewport or when its hovered on/tapped on …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Marquee Top
Down in the last 7 days:44#19,231by Paolo Mason1 year ago
Marquee Top is a WordPress plugin that adds customizable marquee text to your site's top header, letting you adjust its style and speed.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MotionKit
Up in the last 7 days:2,574#19,300by Wealcoder5 days ago
Free visual GSAP animation builder for WordPress. Add scroll animations, text reveals & parallax to Elementor, Divi, Gutenberg, Bricks & any theme.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Blurry
Down in the last 7 days:34#19,311by Looks Awesome11 years ago
Blurry uses your WordPress theme standard menu as a source to build an original responsive menu with impressive appearance effects and sleek animation …
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Animate Any Block
Up in the last 7 days:51#20,112by Rinku Y3 months ago
Add AOS (Animate On Scroll) effects to any WordPress block. Easily configure scroll-triggered animations directly from the block editor sidebar.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
XPAC Lottie Interactive Animations
Up in the last 7 days:7#20,252by xpac4 years ago
A powerful tool to add impressive light-weight animations to your website with a Wordpress native site editor, optimized for performance and Full Site …
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Animicro
Up in the last 7 days:5#20,305by jorgemml1 month ago
Utility-first micro-animations for WordPress. Simple CSS classes, extreme performance. Every module included, free.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Live2DWebCanvas
#20,783by 天堂菌3 days ago
Display an interactive Live2D character on your WordPress site, with model settings, speech bubbles, a toolbar, and optional chat services.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 45/day
Auto AnimateImage
Up in the last 7 days:129#20,799by attosoft14 years ago
Automatically applies AnimateImage script that displays multiple images like animated GIF. All you have to do is write img elements.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Blokino
Up in the last 7 days:832#21,031by TUNET Digital Agency11 days ago
Opt-in entrance, hover and scroll effects for the blocks you already use, plus sections, sliders, marquees and counters, driven by theme tokens.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Processing JS
#21,121by keyvan14 years ago
A plugin for WordPress to make it easy to include Processing.js sketches into blog posts.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Awesome Parallax Effects
Up in the last 7 days:84#21,352by Sai Prasad5 years ago
This plugin use to adds parallax animations on any images/videos. The prallax effect is directly applied to image or video tags and their containers a …
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Shining Cursor Trail
Down in the last 7 days:101#21,368by Taisa - Raquel García Arévalo8 months ago
Shining Cursor Trail adds a magical sparkling effect to your cursor, that you can customize.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Animatikon
Down in the last 7 days:352#21,896by sitionwp4 days ago
Parallax, scroll animations and motion effects for the block editor. Put your blocks inside Animatikon blocks and animate them. No code.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Hugecoder Popup Builder
Up in the last 7 days:293#22,122by hugecoder2 months ago
An easy to use, modern, smart popup builder. Animation effects, a rich text editor, and flexible display rules.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Animation
#22,298by fanor7910 years ago
The plugin Animation is my first WordPress plugin.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

CanvaMotion for Elementor
#22,336by Abdullah Sharaf6 months ago
Animated canvas backgrounds for Elementor — Neural Network, Particle Field, and Constellation — with live preview and interactive mouse tracking.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Niso Carousel
Down in the last 7 days:2#22,359by Noor Alam6 years ago
Niso carousel is nice image and video carousel wordpress plugin. You can use this plugin any wordpress site for create carousel.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day

Wexlab Motion Effects for Elementor
#22,766by wpexpertlab2 months ago
A lightweight motion and interaction toolkit for Elementor. Add fade, reveal, marquee, hover and button motion effects with zero code.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Image Zoom-In-Out
Down in the last 7 days:18#22,769by farvehandleren10 years ago
Image zoom in / out effect on hover.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
ScalingHawk Smooth Scroll (Powered by Lenis)
Down in the last 7 days:77#22,827by Muhammad Aslam5 months ago
Smooth scrolling for WordPress powered by the Lenis JavaScript library.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

PIBE
Down in the last 7 days:342#22,943by Emiliano Lorenzi1 year ago
A ready to use Gutenberg block that lets you create animated images with parallax, hover effects and scroll animations – no code needed.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Lyode Dynamic Typing Animation
Down in the last 7 days:214#22,983by Filikod1 year ago
Create stunning dynamic text animations with multiple effects (typewriter, glitch, neon, etc.) using shortcodes and page builder integrations.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
jellybox
Up in the last 7 days:331#23,053by jellyfilledstudios12 years ago
jellybox provides a simple to use shortcode that allows you to apply rotations and/or animations to text, images and boxes.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Etchenet Scroll Video Background Builder
Up in the last 7 days:460#23,413by etchenet2 months ago
Build native JavaScript scroll-scrubbed video backgrounds for WordPress content, templates, and optional Elementor layouts.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Jellyfish Invaders
Down in the last 7 days:102#23,552by Strawberry Jellyfish6 years ago
Add pixelated pets to your site in the form of funky animated retro space invaders.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Preloadify
Up in the last 7 days:219#23,715by stevendiai1 year ago
A customizable loading screen plugin with logo, animations, color options, preview, and instant save. Improve UX with style.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Tada Confetti
Up in the last 7 days:284#24,127by MD Shahriar Rabby7 months ago
Add beautiful confetti, fireworks, and celebration effects to your WordPress site. Perfect for WooCommerce, form submissions, and special events!
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
HTML5 Swiffy Insert
Down in the last 7 days:79#24,359by yuanga13 years ago
HTML5 Swiffy Insert lets you to insert HTML5 animations generated with Google Swiffy.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Morphext
Up in the last 7 days:107#24,768by Nate Gay7 years ago
WP Morphext is a WordPress Plugin that allows for users to add shortcodes to animate text on their website. The plugin uses shortcodes to provide a na …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Scrollzee
Up in the last 7 days:700#24,823by hsarticle1 month ago
Scroll-controlled video. Scroll down, it plays forward. Scroll up, it reverses. Smooth, like Apple product page hero videos.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
File Uploader for Lottie Animations
Down in the last 7 days:182#24,841by elejalde1 month ago
A simple, lightweight WordPress plugin that enables the uploading of Lottie animations (JSON files) directly into your WordPress Media Library.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Advanced Preloader
Up in the last 7 days:520#25,774by Sanjay Shankar18 days ago
A customizable WordPress preloader plugin that enhances user experience with beautiful loading animations while your site content loads.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Block Animations
Up in the last 7 days:972#26,079by Valentin Grenier4 days ago
Add beautiful scroll-triggered animations to any Gutenberg block with a simple, lightweight solution.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

MotionCraft Scroll Animations
Down in the last 7 days:181#26,518by Darshan Patel5 months ago
Add smooth, scroll-triggered animations to WordPress with CSS classes or Gutenberg block controls.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

W Auto Page Pre Loader
#26,720by Adnan Hyder Pervez5 months ago
W Auto Page Pre Loader adds a smooth loading screen before your website content appears. It improves perceived speed, enhances user experience, and le …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
FireFly Effect on WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:688#26,757by Motyar D14 years ago
FireFly is a Jquery Plugin that creates spark effect on web page. Sparks moves in random motion and path. You have to call firefly_wp_setup() on every …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Image Puzzle
#26,784by manu2252 months ago
Create beautiful puzzle effect on your images!
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MotionUI Addons for Elementor
#26,790by Themeic15 days ago
Animate text, images, sliders, galleries and buttons in Elementor, and build your own header and footer with display conditions. No coding required.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Type-WR
Up in the last 7 days:49#27,533by petrolytvyn9 months ago
A plugin that adds a simple, customizable typewriter (typing) animation effect to any HTML element on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Glitter Bomb
#28,070by Kate Spencer8 months ago
Maximalist particle effects for WordPress — touch-responsive sparkle trails and glitter fields. WCAG 2.2 AA compliant.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Particle Slider
#28,285by samiur66882 months ago
A Gutenberg image slider block with heading, subheading, button, and optional animated particle effects.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day