Animate It!
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About
Add cool CSS3 animations to your content.
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What It Does
Animate It! lets WordPress site owners decorate headings, images, buttons, and other content blocks with pre-built CSS3 animations, including scroll-triggered and infinite-loop effects driven by jQuery. It ships from the animate.css library, so applying entrance, attention-seeker, or exit animations to any element is mostly a matter of picking a class in the editor. It is a visual enrichment tool rather than a structural layout plugin.
Who It's For
This plugin is a good fit for site owners on creative agency, portfolio, restaurant, real estate, or event sites that want quick motion effects without writing custom keyframes or hiring a developer. It works well for non-technical users who want subtle entrance animations, hover effects, or on-scroll reveals without installing a heavier front-end builder. Marketing pages that benefit from a bit of visual flair get the most out of it.
Who Should Skip It
If you already use a modern page builder like Elementor, Bricks, or Oxygen, skip this plugin since those tools include native animation controls that integrate more cleanly with the rest of your layout. Developers who prefer writing their own CSS or using GSAP and ScrollTrigger should also avoid it because the animate.css-style effects are limited and harder to customize deeply.
The Bottom Line
Animate It! is a lightweight, well-rated way to add CSS3 animations with minimal setup, but the dead support forum and reliance on jQuery make it a risky choice for production sites that need reliability. It is worth installing for a brochure or portfolio site that wants quick motion, and easy to remove if it causes a conflict. For anything mission-critical, prefer modern native builder animations or GSAP-based solutions.
Related Plugins
Pick jQuery Updater if your real problem is an outdated bundled jQuery version breaking Animate It! or other scripts, since it addresses the dependency rather than adding animations.
Choose this if you specifically wanted infinite scrolling in the media library and misunderstood the plugin scope, since Animate It! only animates front-end elements.
Pick Catch Infinite Scroll if your animation need is actually endless-scroll pagination on archives or shop pages, not CSS3 entrance effects.
Choose Test jQuery Updates first as a diagnostic if Animate It! animations fail after a WordPress core update, since it confirms jQuery compatibility without committing to a swap.
Pick Alligator Popup when you want animated modal popups for opt-ins or announcements, which is the most common reason people shop for CSS3 animation plugins.