Cool Flipbox – Shortcode & Gutenberg Block

78 Quality Score

Active Installs

17/30

With around 5,000 active installs, the plugin has a modest but real user base, putting it ahead of niche tools yet well behind mainstream team-display plugins.

Update Freshness

25/25

It was last updated on June 4, 2026, and the changelog appears active, which earns a perfect maintenance score of 100.

User Rating

14/15

A 96 out of 100 across 103 ratings is excellent and indicates consistent user satisfaction, though the sample size is moderate rather than massive.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads and a 0.0 percent resolution rate is a red flag, but it also suggests very few users have run into issues needing help.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Tested up to WordPress 7.0 and requiring only PHP 5.6 plus WordPress 4.5, compatibility is broad and forward-looking.

Scores higher than 68% of indexed plugins

About

Show off your team members, staff, and employees in a visually appealing way. Make sure your team's profiles not only grab attention but also sti …

Active Installs 5k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.8/5

Last Updated 2026-09-01 5:45am GMT

Requires WordPress 4.5+

Tested Up To 7.1

Requires PHP 5.6+

Security History

1 known vulnerability, all patched

1 Medium

Most recent: April 10, 2025

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What It Does

Cool Flipbox is a WordPress plugin that adds flipbox-style content blocks to your site, where the front of each card shows one piece of media and the back reveals additional information on hover or click. It ships with both a Gutenberg block and a shortcode, so you can drop team showcases into pages, posts, or widget areas without writing code. The flip animation is purely front-end CSS, so there is no heavy dependency on a page builder.

Who It's For

This plugin suits small to mid-sized businesses, agencies, clinics, salons, law firms, schools, and nonprofits that want a staff or team page with a bit more visual flair than a plain photo grid. It is a good fit for site owners who are comfortable with the block editor or copying a shortcode but do not want to install a full page builder suite. If your team is small and you want personality on your About page, it does the job with minimal setup.

Who Should Skip It

Skip this if you need WooCommerce product flipboxes, layered flip animations with timing controls, or integration with a specific page builder like Elementor or WPBakery, since the feature set here is intentionally narrow. Developers building bespoke flipbox systems or anyone wanting deep analytics on card interactions will also find it too lightweight.

The Bottom Line

Cool Flipbox scores 78.47 out of 100 on PluginCheck, anchored by perfect maintenance and compatibility scores that offset a thin support footprint. It is a focused, no-frills solution that does one thing well and is worth trying if its flipbox style matches your team page vision. Just be prepared to self-troubleshoot, since the public support channel is effectively empty.

Pick this alternative if you have around double the install base to lean on and you use WPBakery or Visual Composer, since it is built around that ecosystem.

Flip Box Block 74/100

Choose this lighter alternative if you want a pure Gutenberg flipbox block and only need about 2,000 installs' worth of community validation behind a simpler tool.