Animicro exists because I needed it.
A WordPress plugin for utility-first micro-animations, built by a developer who got tired of writing the same motion code in every project.
Why
The origin story
For the past few years I've been building high-end WordPress sites for clients — the kind where motion isn't a decoration, it's part of the perceived quality. Fade-ins, parallax, text reveals, hover states. The Awwwards-style polish that separates a "nice website" from one that feels deliberate.
The problem was always the same: how do you ship that kind of motion without bloating the site or rewriting it every project?
I tried the usual options. GSAP is powerful but expensive to maintain across projects, and every site ended up with slightly different custom code I'd written months earlier and half-forgotten. The popular animation plugins on the WordPress repo were either too limited (handful of presets, no per-element control) or too heavy (kitchen-sink builders that added 80kb of JS to every page). Copy-pasting snippets between client projects worked for a while, but as soon as one client needed a tweak the whole thing started to crack.
Why
So in early 2026 I started building Animicro for myself. The brief was strict:
Utility-first.
CSS classes like .am-fade or .am-slide-up, plus data-am-* attributes for overrides. No timeline UIs, no node editors, no learning curve. If you can write a class name in Bricks or Elementor, you can use it.
Minimal footprint.
Built on Motion One (~4kb gzipped) instead of GSAP. Only the modules you enable get loaded — code splitting at the module level.
Builder-native from day one.
Tested against Bricks, Elementor, Breakdance, Oxygen, Divi and Gutenberg. Elements stay visible inside the editor preview, animations only run on the live frontend.
Why
What it is now
24 animation modules covering entry effects (fade, slide, skew, flip, clip-reveal), continuous motion (float, pulse, Ken Burns), scroll-linked (parallax, scroll-slide, text-fill-on-scroll), text effects (typewriter, scramble, scatter, split, highlight), and mouse interactions (magnet, magnetic, custom cursor). Free tier on WordPress.org covers the essentials; Pro adds the premium-feel modules and page transitions.
The full stack: PHP + React for the admin, vanilla JS for the frontend, Motion One under the hood, Vite for the build.
About the maker
I'm Jorge Muñoz, a WordPress developer based in Barcelona. I build custom WordPress sites and plugins for clients in Spain, the US and Australia — Animicro came out of that work, and you can read more about the kind of websites I build at jorgeml.com. I'm a solo developer, not a company. That means decisions are fast, the roadmap is honest, and when you email support you talk to the person who wrote the code.
Try it
Download the free version on WordPress.org
Get Animicro Pro to unlock the premium modules and page transitions