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Animate It!
Add some motion but watch out for editor conflicts.
HealthyGrowing
66/100
The plugin provides simple animations but fails to play well with modern editors.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.9★
127 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+42%
Growing fast
48 → 68 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 7 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +42% in the last year
48/day a year ago→68/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAnimate It! is a lightweight animation plugin that users generally find easy to use, but it carries real caveats around poor compatibility with modern editors and page builders, unclear free-vs-pro feature boundaries, and CSS conflicts with popular themes.
What people like
- +Considered easy to use and user-friendly×3
- +Useful for applying animations to custom CSS templates and elements×2
- +Support team praised as responsive and helpful×2
Common complaints
- −Does not work with Elementor — installing the plugin produces no visible change or added functionality
- −No clear documentation or examples for use with the Gutenberg block editor; only classic editor guidance exists
- −Free vs. Pro feature boundaries are not clearly communicated, leading to confusion and uninstalls
- −Uninstalling the plugin leaves a stale Settings page behind in the WordPress admin
- −CSS conflicts with Astra and Kadence themes break sidebar and widget display
- −Shortcodes cannot be re-edited once inserted — no way to reopen the animation options form
- −Animation preview in the editor does not match the live page rendering
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.84★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 16%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-08-132025-07-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 127 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-01-07★★★★★Exactly what I was looking forfreakymood
- 2025-05-12★★★★★Does Not Work!pilar101
- 2024-07-16★★★★★Amazing.. quick, simple and Freemfarooqi
- 2023-01-26★★★★★AwesomeDieter Geiling
- 2023-01-06★★★★★I couldn't use it with the block editor.pirigoin
- 2022-11-24★★★★★Didn't uninstall Settings panelkdock2
- 2022-08-01★★★★★Perfect support!wilsmithwp
- 2022-03-29★★★★★Great plugin, best support!onastvar
- 2021-12-21★★★★★Great toolvivegroup
- 2021-09-21★★★★★nicejordicesi
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
60
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
68
Prior 7-day baseline
59
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
60
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-11.8%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.58
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
93%
5★ share in analyzed sample
16%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.84 → 4.84★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered