Elements Hive for Breakdance vs KineticHub – Animated Blocks

Turn Your Breakdance Websites Into Visual Symphonies With Elements Hive. Elevate your Breakdance websites with sophisticated, user-friendly micro-interactions, animations, and interactive visual effects that bring your designs to life. Native Breakdance Experience Every element and extension seamlessly integrates with the Breakdance Editor, delivering an authentic and intuitive Breakdance experience. The free version of Elements Hive includes Elements: The most familiar construct in Breakdance, Elements can be added via the Add Panel. Extensions: Elements Hive is the only Breakdance add-on to offer features in the form of Extensions that extend pre-existing elements with additional features, offering a faster prototyping experience and workflow. EH Tricks: a set of non-intrusive Quality of Life Improvements that enhances the Breakdance builder. See the current list of elements and extensions for both the Free and Pro versions of Elements Hive What’s inside the Free version? Elements WebGL Slideshow: A WebGL-powered Slideshow element featuring various unique and captivating effects. Marquee Container: A versatile and lightweight marquee that lets you transform any combination of elements into a smooth, animated marquee display. Orbiting Icons: Create an arbitrary number of animated orbites with custom icons. Link Media Reveal: Interactively reveal an image or video on link hover using buttery-smooth animations. Glue Button: A button element that implement a sticky/magnetic effect. WebGL Media Hover Distortion: Generate stunning WebGL distortion effects between two media elements on user interaction. Gooey Link: An interactive link element that morphs two text elements using a gooey effect. On Scroll Color Switcher: Dynamically change page background and text colors based on scroll position for engaging and dynamic visual feedback. Glue Menu Button: A Glue Buttom element for use inside the Breakdance Menu Builder. Gooey Menu Link: A Gooey Link element for use inside the Breakdance Menu Builder. Link Media Reveal Menu: A Link Media Reveal element for use inside the Breakdance Menu Builder. Extensions Cloudflare Turnstile for Breakdance Forms: Protect your Breakdance forms from bots using Cloudflare Turnstile, a lightweight alternative to Google’s reCAPTCHA. WebGL Fluid: Background extension to create immersive interactive WebGL Fluid Simulation effects that respond to user interaction. Edge Mask: Easily blend any element with the background of its container. Magnetic Cursor: Transform your cursor into an intelligent magnet that elegantly wraps around links, buttons, or any element you designate. WebGL Kinetic Typography: A DIY background extension to craft your own mesmerizing interactive 3D backgrounds. Backlight Extension: Apply natural shadow effects that intelligently adapt to your element’s colors for enhanced depth and visual appeal. Ink Mouse Cursor: Morph your cursor into a fluid, ink-like animation with multiple styles WebGL Slideshow A WebGL-powered Slideshow background extension featuring various unique and captivating effects. EH Tricks Elements Inspector: Quickly inspect and copy Tag, ID and Classes applied to any element Elements Panel: Enhance readability of elements with long names Selector Panel: Selectors labels are fully visible Code Editor Dialog: Window Docking helper action buttons Breakdance Global Colors helper action buttons Resizable window Draggable window Transparent Overlay so you can see your changes in real time when in dialog mode

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