Best css3 plugins for WordPress
The most popular css3 plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of Easy Textillate (1K+) and Progress Bar (1K+). All 41 plugins tagged “CSS3” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 css3 plugins
- 1.
Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page BuilderThe most installed css3 plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 14 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.
Easy Textillate1K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 15 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 3.
Progress Bar1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 24 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 4.
SmartText Rotator1K+ active installs. Rated 3.5 from 11 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 5.
Page Transition700+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 33 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
- 6.
Standout CSS3 Buttons500+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 11 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 7.
Nice page transition400+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
Amazing WPBakery Page Builder Addons100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 9.
Sliding Enquiry Form100+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 8 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 10.
CSS3 Transitions100+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
All 41 plugins tagged “CSS3”
Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder
Down in the last 7 days:9#4,164by Labib Ahmed1 year ago
Add stylish CSS3 hover effects with captions to images in WPBakery Page Builder. Create engaging animations that enhance your site’s visual appeal.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.3(14)
- Downloads
- 14/day
Easy Textillate
Down in the last 7 days:22#5,330by Flector1 year ago
Very beautiful text animations (shortcodes in posts and widgets or PHP code in theme files).
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(15)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Progress Bar
Up in the last 7 days:31#5,778by Chris Reynolds1 month ago
A simple progress bar shortcode that can be styled with CSS
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(24)
- Downloads
- 23/day
SmartText Rotator
Down in the last 7 days:25#6,507by Labib Ahmed1 year ago
A WordPress plugin that allows you to add rotating words in a sentence with CSS3 animations.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.5(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Page Transition
Up in the last 7 days:7#7,810by numixtech12 years ago
Page Transition is a simple and easy wordpress plugin used to add page transition using CSS3 animations. Show your page with modern animations.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.5(33)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Standout CSS3 Buttons
Down in the last 7 days:22#9,106by jp211211 years ago
Display CSS3 style buttons with gradient color styles on your website using shortcodes or PHP function call.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.4(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Nice page transition
Down in the last 7 days:553#9,344by manu2252 months ago
Nice page transition for your website :)
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.2(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Amazing WPBakery Page Builder Addons
Down in the last 7 days:74#14,187by noor-e-alam6 years ago
Bundled with super useful WPBakery Page Builder elements with bunch of options to achieve any design with all the power of WPBakery Page Builder for f …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sliding Enquiry Form
Up in the last 7 days:3#14,354by Jaimin Suthar8 years ago
Sliding Enquiry Form is a simple and easy wordpress plugin used to add popup on fixed position like bottom, left or right side with CSS3 effects.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.9(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day
CSS3 Transitions
Up in the last 7 days:14#14,545by Nick Halsey9 years ago
This plugin automatically adds CSS3 transitions to your website/blog and the WordPress admin. Links, etc. get animated transitions between their norma …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
HTML5 Slideshow Presentations
Down in the last 7 days:52#14,570by Justin Sternberg13 years ago
Create HTML5 slideshow presentations using our favorite cms, WordPress. Host your own presentations and share/present them anytime.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 3/day
Fade
Down in the last 7 days:6#15,203by Alobaidi2 years ago
Add fade effect to wordpress easily, CSS3 only, without JavaScript! custom fade color and time, easy to use, compatible with all major browsers.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Outdated Browser
Down in the last 7 days:102#15,314by Deblyn Prado11 years ago
Show a message if the user using a outdated browser.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Sublime Custom CSS Editor
Down in the last 7 days:5#15,702by AsianCoders11 years ago
Write easily your custom CSS like sublime text editor and add your website.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Blurry
#19,294by 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 Slider
Down in the last 7 days:15#19,780by nackle2k1012 years ago
Animated Slideshow boost your theme through shortcode with a beautiful CSS3 animated image and content slideshow.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
CSS Columns
#20,088by redwerks14 years ago
Provides a [columns] shortcode that gives a section of post content multiple columns using css3's column properties.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Sponsor Flip Wall
Down in the last 7 days:62#23,333by samuel_rbo6 years ago
This is a WordPress plugin that use CSS 3 flip animation. This use wordpress post type to create sponsors. This plugin was update to prevent any probl …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Fossil
Down in the last 7 days:338#26,100by Zach Schnackel12 years ago
Provides support for media queries and emulating CSS3 pseudo-classes and attribute selectors in Internet Explorer 6-8.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Puzzle
Down in the last 7 days:131#26,540by manu2252 months ago
Create beautiful puzzle effect on your images!
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
CHBD CSS3 Accordion
Up in the last 7 days:20#32,090by arefin2k12 years ago
This plugin will help users to create an eye catching accordion style with pure css3.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SwipeJS
Down in the last 7 days:403#34,041by James Doyle14 years ago
Swipe.js is a small, touch-capable, mobile slider.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Add Custom CSS and JS
Up in the last 7 days:11,591#35,425by mainsufian3 years ago
Now you can write different code of CSS and JS for admin panel and for front-end and you can also use different css and js if user is login.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Essential Hover Effects
Up in the last 7 days:4,347#40,124by themebon6 years ago
Ultimate Hover Effects WordPress Plugin is an impressive powerfull modern, yet stylish hover effects for image captions.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Wp Textillate
#41,704by codefield11 years ago
The plugin allows you to add moving text with different animations both widgets and content via shortcode.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
EL-Gallery
Up in the last 7 days:3,109#42,693by Eric Lowry9 years ago
EL-Gallery is an elegant untra-lightweight javascript & css gallery replacement for Wordpress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ultimate CSS Gradient Maker
Down in the last 7 days:515#43,715by corporatezen2228 years ago
Wrap any page or post content in a completely customizable CSS background gradient, quickly and easily
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Page Loading
#44,122by Arefly12 years ago
Add a CSS3 effect to your blog while loading pages. 給你的部落格增加一個帶有CSS3效果的頁面載入動畫
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Brozzme Hover integration
Up in the last 7 days:1,435#44,694by Benoti9 years ago
Add css3 effect animations by Ian Lunn in your website without coding skills.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Tooltip Wp
#46,044by Themepoints4 months ago
This plugin will enable an awesome, nice, smooth tooltip for your website. Install and enjoy this plugin's features.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
swMenu
Down in the last 7 days:1,436#46,538by swmenu11 years ago
Visit http://swmenu.com and use the free online editor to make your own customised version of this pluggin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Strx Zurb CSS3 Awesome Buttons
Down in the last 7 days:4,486#46,733by straps16 years ago
CSS3 Buttons made by the zurb team
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Compatiblizr
#47,392by Designer02312 years ago
Plugin for patching old versions of IE (7 and 8)to work with CSS3 selectors and Media Queries.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sneakers
Down in the last 7 days:10,455#48,009by G Matta5 years ago
Easily add visually appealing Collapsible Panels facing any direction on the screen, without jQuery. Supports Shortcode, Custom Colors and 12 differen …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
FlipEm
#54,865by Andrei Petcu6 months ago
FlipEm adds CSS3 3D flipping cards to WordPress content and sidebars using shortcodes, a widget, and a live generator.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day