Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects – Ghost Kit vs Cursor Style & Animation

Cursor Style & Animation is a premium-quality WordPress plugin that adds engaging mouse cursor effects to enhance your website’s interactivity and visual appeal. Perfect for modern websites looking to create memorable user experiences. 🎨 **Key Features** 4 Beautiful Animation Types: Trail, Particles, Ripple, and Magnetic effects 10+ Cursor Styles: From classic to modern, including custom images Mobile Optimized: Optional mobile support with performance considerations Performance Focused: Smooth 60fps animations with minimal resource usage Accessibility Friendly: Respects user preferences and accessibility standards Easy Customization: Intuitive admin interface with live preview Modern Web Standards: Built with vanilla JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas 🎯 **Animation Effects** Trail Effect: Smooth trailing animation that follows your mouse with customizable length and color. Particle Effect: Dynamic particle system with physics simulation that spawns particles as you move. Ripple Effect: Expanding circular ripples on mouse movement for a water-like effect. Magnetic Effect: Interactive element attraction and repulsion for engaging interactions. 🖱️ **Cursor Styles** Choose from various cursor styles: * Default, Pointer, Crosshair, Text, Wait, Move, Grab * Zoom In/Out cursors * Custom Image support (PNG, SVG, CUR formats) * Hidden cursor option ⚙️ **Easy Configuration** Animation Type: Select from 4 different effects Trail Settings: Customize length, size, and color Animation Speed: Control from 0.1x to 2.0x Cursor Style: Choose from 10+ predefined styles Custom Cursors: Upload your own cursor images Mobile Support: Optional touch-based interactions 🚀 **Performance Optimized** Hardware acceleration using GPU Efficient canvas rendering Automatic memory management Mobile optimization Respect for user’s motion preferences No impact on SEO or page load speed ♿ **Accessibility Compliant** Respects prefers-reduced-motion media query No interference with screen readers Keyboard navigation support High contrast mode compatibility Print-friendly (disables on print) 🌐 **Browser Support** Chrome 60+ (Full support) Firefox 55+ (Full support) Safari 12+ (Full support) Edge 79+ (Full support) Internet Explorer 11 (Limited support) 📱 **Mobile Support** Optional mobile device support with touch-based interactions. The plugin automatically adapts effects for touch devices while maintaining performance. 🔧 **Developer Friendly** JavaScript hooks for custom integrations CSS classes for custom styling WordPress hooks and filters Translation-ready with .pot files Comprehensive documentation 🎨 **Usage Examples** The plugin works automatically once activated. Simply move your mouse around your website to see the beautiful effects. HTML Integration: html Link with pointer cursor Button with pointer cursor Draggable element with grab cursor Magnetic Effect: html Magnetic Button Magnetic Div 🚀 **Quick Start** Install and activate the plugin Go to Settings > Cursor Style & Animation Choose your preferred animation type Customize settings as needed Save changes and enjoy! 📋 **System Requirements** WordPress 5.0 or higher PHP 7.4 or higher Modern web browser with JavaScript enabled 🆘 **Support** For support and assistance: * Check the troubleshooting section in documentation * Review the FAQ section * Visit our support page * Contact the developer ☕ **Support the Developer** If you find this plugin helpful, consider supporting its continued development: Buy Me a Coffee

Ghost Kit adds motion to the blocks you already use. Select a block, open Effects in the block settings, and choose what happens when it comes into view, when the page scrolls past it, and when the pointer moves across it. See Live Demo | Documentation | GitHub WordPress ships a good set of blocks now. What it still does not ship is motion, and the usual way to get motion is to rebuild the page in a page builder. Ghost Kit is the smaller move. Keep the blocks you have and add the animation on top. 🎬 Reveal animations Start from a preset, Fade In, Zoom In or one of the three directional zooms, then adjust the offset, opacity, scale and rotation the block animates from. The transition is a spring rather than a fixed easing curve, so the movement settles instead of stopping dead. Reveal is in the free plugin. 📜 Scroll effects Tie a block’s position, scale, rotation and opacity to how far the page has scrolled, rather than to a single trigger. This is how parallax sections and scroll-driven reveals are built. 🖱️ Mouse effects Move, tilt, scale or rotate a block as the pointer travels over it. Hover and press are separate states, so a card can lift under the cursor and sink when it is clicked. 🔁 Loop animations Run an animation continuously. Rotating badges, floating shapes and drifting backgrounds are all loops with different transforms. ♿ Reduced motion is respected Every effect checks prefers-reduced-motion: reduce before it runs, so a visitor who turned animations off in their operating system gets a still page. There is nothing to configure. 🧩 It works on the blocks you already have Effects appear on every core WordPress block, from Paragraph, Heading and Image to Cover, Group, Columns, Buttons and Query Loop. They appear on every Ghost Kit block as well. A block from another plugin can opt in by declaring supports.ghostkit in its own block.json. You do not have to rebuild anything. Install the plugin, select a block that is already on the page, and the controls are there. ⚙️ Extensions The same place carries the controls a block usually needs and WordPress leaves out. Position Switch a block to absolute or fixed and offset it, per screen size. Spacings Padding and margin per screen size, on any block. Frame Borders, corner radius and shadows, with a separate hover state. Display Hide a block on the screen sizes where it does not belong. Transform Translate, scale, rotate and skew, including a hover state. Custom CSS & JavaScript Per page or site wide, edited in the admin with syntax highlighting. 🧱 Blocks Ghost Kit also ships blocks for the things core still leaves out. Every one of them carries the Effects panel. Advanced Columns, a twelve column responsive grid with visual size and order controls Accordion, Tabs, Toggle Content Alert, Icon, Number Box, Progress, Countdown Button, Circle Button, Divider, Shape Divider Video, GIF, Image Compare, Image Scroller, Magnifying Image, Carousel, Marquee Contact Form, Google Maps, Pricing Table, Testimonial, Table of Contents Code Highlight, GitHub Gist, Changelog, Interactive Links ✍️ Content formatting Formats that apply to a text selection rather than to a whole block. See them on the formats demo page. Animated Text, Badges, Lorem Ipsum Generator, Spoiler, Stroke, Tooltip, Uppercase 🔥 Ghost Kit Pro The free plugin covers reveal animations, the layout extensions and the block set. Ghost Kit Pro adds the rest of the motion system and pays for the free version to keep being maintained and supported. Scroll effects, mouse effects and loop animations 3D rotation, custom viewport and replay for reveal animations CSS transform and transition per block, with a hover state Custom block attributes and custom responsive breakpoints Marquee, Code Highlight, Interactive Links, Magnifying Image, Image Scroller, Circle Button and Toggle Content blocks Animated Text, Stroke, Spoiler and Tooltip formats More icon packs, Adobe Fonts and custom font files Gradients for buttons, backgrounds, icons and badges Extra shapes for the Shape Divider block 🏳️ Multilingual Ghost Kit adds a layer of WPML compatibility. Every block is translation ready. Read the multilingual guide.