Best css3 animations plugins for WordPress
The most popular css3 animations plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Easy Textillate leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Image Hover Effects for Visual Composer (10+) and Animated Featured Image (10+). All 4 plugins tagged “css3 animations” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 css3 animations plugins
- 1.
Easy TextillateThe most installed css3 animations plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 15 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.Image Hover Effects for Visual Composer
10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago.
- 3.
Animated Featured Image10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 4.
Ultimate Image Hover Effects CSS310+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
All 4 plugins tagged “css3 animations”

Easy Textillate
Down in the last 7 days:21#5,329by 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
Image Hover Effects for Visual Composer
Down in the last 7 days:209#30,835by zafarullah2129 years ago
Requires at least: 3.5 Tested up to: 4.9 Stable tag: 1.0 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Animated Featured Image
#33,214by Mobeen Abdullah6 years ago
Responsive Featured Image for Sidebar Widgets with CSS3 Animations and Styles
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Ultimate Image Hover Effects CSS3
#46,881by shahzaib7958 years ago
An ultimate and Flexible way to add images anywhere in your site with 70+ css3 Image hover effects.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day