Auto AnimateImage vs KineticHub – Animated Blocks

Auto AnimateImage is WordPress plugin that applies AnimateImage script to your site automatically. AnimateImage displays multiple images continuously like animated GIF. All you have to do is write img element like below, and the image will be animated automatically. As you know, animated GIF is the most common animation format, but it supports up to only 256 colors. There are some alternative animation formats such as APNG, MNG, JNG, Motion JPEG and SVG Animation. However they are currently not widely supported by Web browsers. That is why AnimateImage is the most appropriate method for animated images. Auto AnimateImage Features Automatically applies AnimateImage script to your site All you have to do is write img elements. No JavaScript, No Shortcode, No Gallery. Common options and animation styles can be customized via Settings screen Compatible widely down to even obsolete WordPress 2.7 AnimateImage Features Displays multiple images continuously like animated GIF. It supports sequential/arbitrary filenames. Supports any image formats supported by Web browsers, such as GIF, PNG, JPEG, JPEG XR (HD Photo), BMP, TIFF, WebP and SVG. Thereby transparent animation with more than 256 colors is available. Many animation options are available, such as animation delay, repeat count, rewind, pause and blank image img elements with data-files attribute are animated automatically. No need for writing JavaScript. Animations are controllable by writing JavaScript. You can start/stop/replay them at any time. Standalone script with 5.6 KB file size, without using JavaScript libraries such as jQuery Supports Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera and their older versions How to Install See Installation. How to Use All you have to do is write img elements with data-files attribute, and the images will be animated automatically. You can animate multiple images with sequential number, zero-padded sequential number, sequential alphabet and arbitrary filenames. AnimateImage supports many animation options such as animation delay, repeat count, rewind, pause and blank image. You can specify them with data-* attributes like below. See Code Examples for more information. Support Me To keep my motivation, put rating stars and vote compatibility (works/broken) via the right sidebar If you have any questions, view support forum or post a new topic See Localization if you can translate the plugin into your language I would be grateful if you would donate to support plugin development Contact me if you have any feedback Any comments will be very helpful and appreciated. Thank you for your support! Links attosoft.info AnimateImage script Auto AnimateImage plugin Code Examples Example 1: Sequential Filenames Example 2: Arbitrary Filenames Example 3: Format String in Directory Name * data-files attribute is specified with filename or relative path to directory, including format string. Example 4: title/alt Attributes * alt attribute with the value of title attribute will be added if not specified. Example 5: id/class Attributes * class attribute will be added if not specified. default class attribute value is "animation". Example 6: delay/cycleDelay Options * In default, delay option is 500 ms and cycleDelay option is 0 ms. Example 7: repeat/rewind Options * In default, repeat option is -1 (infinite iteration) and rewind option is false. Example 8: pauseAtFirst/Last Options * In default, pauseAtFirst option is false and pauseAtLast option is false. Example 9: showBlank/blankClassName/blankPath/stretchBlank Options (Blank Image) * In default, showBlank option is false and blankClassName option is "blank". Example 10: Arbitrary Attributes Example 11: Arbitrary CSS Properties Localization You can localize the plugin with Poedit. Here is how to translate the plugin into your language. Download Poedit and install it Run Poedit and select your language Input your name and mail address (optional) Open “auto-animateimage/languages/animateimage.pot” file Select original string and input its translation Save the file as “animateimage-[LANG].po” “[LANG]” is a language code. For instance, “de_DE” is for German, “sv_SE” is for Swedish, “pt_BR” is for Portuguese spoken in Brazil. If you want to know your language code, see WordPress in Your Language. If you need more information, see Translating WordPress. I would be grateful if you would send me any translation files. Here are the available translations included in the latest plugin. Japanese (ja) translation by attosoft If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

KineticHub is a lightweight suite of animated Gutenberg blocks for designers, agencies, developers, and site builders who want to add motion, media, and interactive UI effects to WordPress pages without leaving the block editor. The plugin includes visual blocks for animated typography, video modals, audio players, before-and-after image comparisons, marquees, interactive buttons, hero backgrounds, scroll dividers, split scroll layouts, cursor reveal lists, ambient visuals, and motion-ready containers. KineticHub is designed for modern WordPress workflows. Blocks can be inserted, configured, and reused directly inside the editor, while frontend assets are loaded through WordPress block asset registration. Use KineticHub to build: Animated landing page sections Portfolio and agency pages Interactive hero areas Product and service highlights Editorial layouts with motion Media-rich Gutenberg pages Lightweight visual effects without a page builder dependency View demos and documentation at: https://getkinetichub.com KineticHub includes 12 Gutenberg blocks. The full block list is available in the Blocks section below. Performance Focused KineticHub is designed to avoid unnecessary page weight and unnecessary frontend execution. Block assets are loaded through WordPress block asset registration. Shared runtime behavior is handled by lightweight frontend assets. Video embeds are initialized lazily after user interaction where supported by the block setup. Motion-heavy effects respect reduced-motion preferences. Global motion settings can be configured from the KineticHub dashboard. Blocks are designed to work with modern WordPress themes and performance optimization tools. Accessibility KineticHub includes accessibility-oriented behavior across supported blocks. Reduced-motion support for users who prefer less animation. Keyboard focus handling where interactive controls are used. Screen-reader friendly fallback text for animated typography. ARIA labels for video modal controls. Semantic output and escaped server-side rendering. Interactive blocks are designed to remain usable without relying only on motion. External Services The plugin does not connect to external services on activation. Some blocks may load third-party media only when a site administrator configures content that uses those providers. For example, the Kinetic Video Modal block can embed videos from YouTube or Vimeo when a YouTube or Vimeo URL is entered by the site administrator. Third-party services may receive visitor data when embedded media is loaded by the browser. This depends on the configured media URL, the provider used, and the visitor’s browser behavior. Supported optional video providers include: YouTube YouTube NoCookie Vimeo Self-hosted media files can also be used. Provider endpoints that may be used when configured by the site administrator: YouTube video embeds: https://www.youtube.com/ YouTube privacy-enhanced embeds: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/ YouTube thumbnail images: https://img.youtube.com/ Vimeo video embeds: https://player.vimeo.com/ Provider policies: YouTube Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms YouTube Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Vimeo Terms of Service: https://vimeo.com/terms Vimeo Privacy Policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy Source Code This plugin includes compiled JavaScript and CSS generated with npm and WordPress build tools. The human-readable free-version source files used to build the distributed assets are publicly available here: https://github.com/GetKineticHub/kinetichub-free-source/tree/wporg-free-source-1.0.14 The public source branch includes the uncompiled free-version source files, package.json, webpack configuration, and build instructions for the JavaScript and CSS assets included in the distributed build/ directory. Build Instructions The plugin uses the standard WordPress block build pipeline based on @wordpress/scripts. To rebuild the distributed assets from the public source branch: Clone the public source repository. Check out the matching source branch: wporg-free-source-1.0.14 Install build dependencies: npm install Generate production assets: npm run build The build process compiles source files from the source repository into a build directory using the included webpack configuration. Build Requirements Node.js 18 or later npm 9 or later