15 Impressive WordPress Animation Plugins

With modern web design, there is more often than not some type of web animation on the site. Whether it’s to smooth the website transition or emphasize product features, web animations serve to enhance the visual content on site. Websites that execute web animation correctly capitalize on the chance to further engage site visitors. So if you are looking for WordPress animation plugins to spice up your website with some subtle effects, we have compiled a list of some of WordPress plugins to animate your web content and bring it to life.

Enliven ’em!

It is a port of jQuery plugin to WordPress which lets you animate any vector graphic presented as SVG files in many different ways when your vector illustrations become visible in a user’s browser viewport (good for “non-hover” devices like Apple’s ones). Also you can allow an animation to be repeated when user click or tap your graphic.

enliven

The Welcomizer

This plugin allows you to quickly animate your WordPress blog.

randomizer

Responsive SVG Handwriting Animation

WordPress animation plugin to make a signature neatly appear to be written, as though you’re signing the page yourself.

Responsive SVG Handwriting Animation

WP Page Transitions

With WP Page Transitions you can add beatiful transitions between your wordpress pages! You can set the transitions on a global level or you can customize it per page. You could also choose to use only in transitions or only out transitions instead of both!

WP Page Transitions

The Loading Bar WordPress Plugin

Install and activate The Loading Bar, then your site will get a loading screen that indicates the loading progress of your site. When your site is fully loaded, it’ll get shown to your visitors. What for? So that your users will be able to first see your site in all its glory. Not broken, no missing images.

The Loading Bar WordPress Plugin

Hover Effects

This hover effects pack plugin allows you to add image via shortcode, Visual Composer, SiteOrigin Pagebuilder or Widget and set hover animation, text animation and text delay. Also this plugin has options page, where you can select colors for color layer and text.

Hover Effects Pack - WordPress Plugin

Animate Shortcode

Add 60+ animations to your WordPress Pages, Posts, Theme and Widgets. Insert directly into your theme or use the WYSIWYG editor to insert anywhere on anything into your theme.

Animate Shortcode

Scroll Animation WordPress Plugin

Now you can quickly and easily add scroll animations to any elements on your WordPress website. Images, Text, Buttons, anything can be animated on scrolling.

Scroll Animation WordPress Plugin

GIF Animation Controls

Hyena is a lightweight, unobtrusive and responsive animated GIF plugin for WordPress. Compared to video conversion methods like webM, Hyena delivers better performance, faster load times, easier styling and more sophisticated event interaction – without the restrictions of an HTML5 video player.

GIF Animation Controls

Animated SVG Social Media Icons

These individually animated SVG icons are the perfect way to send your customers to your social media. They’re all SVGs (scaleable vector graphics), which means that the file size per icon is tiny (1 – 2kb each) and you can scale them to any size you want without any loss is quality.

Animated SVG Social Media Icons for WordPress

Simple Text Rotator

Simple Text Rotator is a beautiful and elegant text rotation solution via WordPress shortcodes. Attract your visitors attention by animating the key words of your business in a few seconds and without any programming skills. Your visitor’s attention will be exactly where you want it to be in seconds.

Simple Text Rotator WordPress Plugin

Drawing SVG Animations Plugin

Professional SVG Image WYSIWYG Editor is included in this plugin, and can be accessed from the admin area. You can draw with the default Pencil tool or create shapes out of the rich Shapes library. All SVG images are animated on the front-side, by mimicking the drawing process. You can also export and save the SVG image as well.

Animatrix Creative - Drawing SVG Animations Plugin

Powerful Button Builder

Buttons X is a WordPress button builder plugin which comes with free extensions and free button packs. It is packed with functionality that allows countless button variations to be made easily without any coding.

button animation

Advanced Typing Effect

This plugin allows you to make the Typewriter effect very easily.

Advanced Typing Effect WordPress Plugin

Smart Product Viewer

Smart Product Viewer allows you to create a step-by-step product animations or a product workflow using the same principles as 360 Spin. Product animations can be easily added to any WordPress post or page using simple Shortcodes. Using WordPress Widgets you can add animations to any Sidebar in your WordPress Theme.

360º WordPress Plugin

1 Comments

  1. Jesper@RYMsays:

    Very direct and informative post. I like the diversity of the plugins you covered. Will check out a few of them!

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