Best CSS animation plugins for WordPress
The most popular CSS animation plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. CSS Animation Retrigger for WPBakery leads with 70+ active installs, ahead of Animations by Imoptimal (60+) and AJO Animate (fewer than 10). All 4 plugins tagged “CSS Animation” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 CSS animation plugins
- 1.CSS Animation Retrigger for WPBakery
The most installed CSS animation plugin, with 70+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
Animations by Imoptimal60+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 3.
AJO AnimateFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 months ago.
- 4.
JupaFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
All 4 plugins tagged “CSS Animation”
CSS Animation Retrigger for WPBakery
Up in the last 7 days:301#18,357by WPExplorer8 months ago
Retriggers the WPBakery CSS animations whenever the element is scrolled into view.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Animations by Imoptimal
Down in the last 7 days:183#19,229by 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

AJO Animate
Down in the last 7 days:7,563#62,303by Ali J Online4 months ago
A lightweight, performance-optimized WordPress plugin to animate elements on scroll using CSS classes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Jupa
Down in the last 7 days:5,497#69,825by Jupa1 month ago
Lightweight scroll animations for any block. No animation JS library — powered by Animate.css, fully customizable via CSS.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day