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Blocks Animation: CSS Animations for Gutenberg Blocks
Add some graceful motion to your blocks without the heavy JavaScript bloat.
HealthyGrowing
87/100
Users appreciate the lightweight CSS approach and the intuitive interface for adding motion to blocks.
Active installs
~212,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 90k+
Rating
4.7★
65 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+30%
Growing fast
376 → 489 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreview volume down 82% vs prior 6mo
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 · +30% in the last year
376/day a year ago→489/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayBlocks Animation is a well-regarded, lightweight CSS animation plugin for Gutenberg that users find easy to use and performance-friendly, with no notable recurring complaints surfaced in reviews.
What people like
- +Easy to use, with a straightforward dropdown interface for selecting animations×6
- +Wide variety of animation types and fine-tuning options available×3
- +Lightweight and fast — uses only CSS classes, no heavy JavaScript libraries or server-side processing×2
- +Works reliably across multiple projects and FSE themes over extended use×2
- +Saves time by reducing the need to write custom CSS for animation effects
Common complaints
- −Browser autocomplete popups can interfere with the animation dropdown selector, with no clear workaround
- −Adding too many animations at once can degrade user experience and slow down the browser (noted as a usage caution, not a bug)
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.75★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 14%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 65 total
Latest reviews · 65 analyzed
- 2026-04-17★★★★★Very simple and easily usefulherenow71-shot
- 2025-12-30★★★★★Excellent Plugin!K. M.
- 2025-11-20★★★★★Really nicestirrell42
- 2025-11-04★★★★★Great plugin!horinitro
- 2025-10-24★★★★★Great and easy-to-use pluginKS
- 2025-10-23★★★★★Very good and useful pluginalfonsobb
- 2025-10-03★★★★★Amazing plugin.phuocqdam
- 2025-09-19★★★★★Simply superWidescreen Media AB
- 2025-09-08★★★★★Works greatamdbarak1-shot
- 2025-08-22★★★★★Good pluginThemico
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.
448
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
487
Prior 7-day baseline
765
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
24,254
Mean release-day peak (30d)
853
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-8.0%
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.
18%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.33
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
89%
5★ share in analyzed sample
14%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-82%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.72 → 4.75★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered