Animicro

Changelog

1.24.0

• Two new Free modules: scroll-slide-left and scroll-slide-right — scroll-linked horizontal drift. As the visitor scrolls vertically, the element translates horizontally across the viewport. Classic “newspaper strip” / “ticker tape” effect for Hero headlines and section dividers.
• .am-scroll-slide-left — element travels right → left (classic).
• .am-scroll-slide-right — element travels left → right (inverse).
• Per-element data-am-speed (default 1, range 0.1–3): travel multiplier. 0.5× is a subtle drift, 3× is a wild sweep that pushes the element fully off-screen.
• Free tier — first scroll-linked module in the Free build (parallax + text-fill-scroll remain Pro). Honors prefers-reduced-motion: reduce and never runs inside builder editor previews. IntersectionObserver-gated for performance on long pages.

1.23.0

• New flip-x and flip-y modules (Pro) — 3D card-flip entry animation, the classic AOS-style effect. Elements appear rotating on their X axis (.am-flip-x, like opening a book top-to-bottom) or Y axis (.am-flip-y, like turning a page left-to-right) from a configurable angle back to 0°. Perfect for pricing grids, testimonial cards, feature blocks.
• Per-element data-am-angle (default 180°, range -720..720) lets you do subtle flips (90°), reverse direction (-180°), or full spins (360°, 720°).
• Built on Motion v12’s transformPerspective so the rotation reads 3D without forcing perspective on the parent element. Standard data-am-duration / -easing / -delay / -margin work as usual.
• Tip: try the Bounce Out easing for a “card lands with a snap” feel — looks great on pricing tables.

1.22.0

• New ken-burns module (Free) — Slow infinite zoom for hero images. Apply .am-ken-burns to any image / element and it cycles between scale 1 and 1.15 over 15 seconds (configurable), giving static backgrounds the cinematic documentary feel.
• Per-element overrides: data-am-duration (cycle length), data-am-scale (zoom amount), data-am-easing, data-am-delay.
• Tip: the parent of the image should have overflow: hidden so the zoomed-in image stays clipped to its frame. Most hero sections in builders already ship with that.
• Honors prefers-reduced-motion: reduce. Skipped inside Bricks / Elementor / Breakdance / Oxygen / Divi editor previews.

1.21.0

• New cursor module (Pro) — Replaces the system cursor with a custom circle that follows the mouse with smooth lerp interpolation. When the visitor hovers any element carrying .am-cursor-expand, the cursor grows, applies a glassmorphism style (backdrop-filter blur + semi-transparent background), and optionally shows text via data-am-cursor-text="View".
• Configurable from the admin panel: base size + color, hover size + color + opacity + blur, smoothness (lerp factor). Per-element overrides for size (data-am-cursor-size) and text (data-am-cursor-text).
• Auto-active globally if the module is enabled (no .am-cursor class on body needed). The native cursor is hidden via critical CSS while the module is active, with explicit exceptions for text inputs so the I-beam stays usable in forms.
• Auto-disables on touch-only devices, screens narrower than 992px, when the visitor prefers reduced motion, and inside builder editor previews. Reactive to resize — re-evaluates the breakpoint with a debounced listener.

1.20.0

• New magnetic module (Pro) — .am-magnetic buttons / icons / links are pulled toward the cursor when it enters their proximity, and snap elastically back when the cursor leaves. Awwwards-style “premium feel” interaction for hero CTAs and nav links.
• Per-element attributes: data-am-range (attraction radius), data-am-strength, data-am-smoothness, data-am-axis (x/y/both).
• New admin category “Mouse Interactions” that groups cursor-driven effects. The existing Magnet module has been moved into this category (from “Continuous”). No settings or behaviour changed for Magnet — only its placement in the Modules dashboard.
• Both magnetic and magnet skip touch-only devices, honor prefers-reduced-motion: reduce, and never run inside Bricks / Elementor / etc. editor previews.

1.19.0

• New clip-reveal module (Pro) — .am-clip-reveal images (or any element) get a premium reveal via clip-path. Seven shapes: curtain-down, curtain-up, curtain-left, curtain-right, center-h, center-v, circle. Per-element via data-am-shape="...", default configurable from the admin panel.
• Triggered when the element enters the viewport (IntersectionObserver gated). Standard data-am-duration / -easing / -delay / -margin attributes apply.
• Safe by default: critical inline CSS clips the element entirely until JS arrives. If JS is disabled or the visitor prefers reduced motion, @media fallbacks force clip-path: none so the image stays fully visible.

1.18.0

• New spin module (Pro) — .am-spin elements rotate continuously and accelerate momentarily when the visitor scrolls. Perfect for circular badges (“Award winning”, “100% Quality”, brand seals) that you see on Awwwards-style sites.
• Per-element data-am-direction="left|right" (CW / CCW) and data-am-speed (degrees per second, 1–360). Default direction / speed / scroll-boost configured globally from the admin panel.
• Performance: single global rAF loop + single scroll listener + IntersectionObserver, so 20 spinning badges off-screen cost zero CPU until they enter the viewport. Honors prefers-reduced-motion: reduce (no animation), respects builder editor previews (no rotation inside Bricks / Elementor / etc.).

1.17.0

• New scramble module (Pro) — .am-scramble cycles each character through random symbols (ASCII glitch + alphanumeric mix) and stabilises them left-to-right when the element enters the viewport. Cinema / cyberpunk decoding look.
• Utility-first: only the class is needed. Stagger delay (how fast the decode wave races across) and scramble speed (how often each unrevealed char swaps to a new random symbol) are configured globally from the admin panel. Per-element data-am-delay, -stagger, -margin still work.
• Preserves the original text as aria-label on the parent so screen readers announce the final phrase once instead of spamming character-by-character mutations. Honors prefers-reduced-motion: reduce (text renders immediately without decoding). Builder-safe.

1.16.0

• New scatter module (Pro) — .am-scatter-chars and .am-scatter-words make characters or words fly in from random offset positions (translate ± radius, rotate ± rotateMax) and converge to their final position when the element enters the viewport.
• Utility-first design: only the class is needed on the element. Distance (50–500px) and rotation (0–90°) are configured once from the admin panel and apply to every scatter element on the site. Per-element data-am-duration / -easing / -delay / -stagger / -margin still work via the shared attribute API.
• IntersectionObserver gated (only animates when the element enters viewport), prefers-reduced-motion: reduce respected, never runs inside Bricks / Elementor / Breakdance / Oxygen / Divi editor previews.

1.15.0

• New magnet module (Pro) — .am-magnet elements drift smoothly toward the mouse with LERP-based inertia. Three attributes: data-am-strength (1–100), data-am-smoothness (0.01–1), data-am-axis (x / y / both). One global rAF loop + one mousemove listener regardless of how many elements you mark — cost scales linearly with element count.
• Safety: skipped on touch-only devices (no fine pointer signal), honors prefers-reduced-motion: reduce, never runs inside Bricks / Elementor / Breakdance / Oxygen / Divi editor previews.

1.14.2

• Plugin icon in the WP “Update Plugins” screen. Bundled assets/icon-128x128.png so the standard WP-admin update list now shows the Animicro logo instead of the generic gray plug icon. Works automatically — no settings needed.
• Internal: toolchain migrated from npm to pnpm. No product changes; only affects how the build is run locally and in CI. Existing settings, animations and styling are unchanged.

1.14.1

• Page Curtain: theatre-curtain directions. Slide-up and slide-down now feel natural — the cortina ENTERS from one side and LEAVES through the OPPOSITE side, like a real stage curtain (falls from above to cover, rises away to reveal). Previously both halves moved in the same direction which felt repetitive.
• Page Curtain: WordPress media library for logo. The Logo URL field is now a “Select image…” button that opens the standard WP media picker, with a thumbnail preview, “Change” and “Remove” actions. Plain URLs still work as a fallback if the media script can’t be loaded.

1.14.0

• New “Page Transitions” admin tab with a single new module:
  • Page Curtain — symmetric overlay transition between internal pages. Click a link → cortina covers the screen → page changes → cortina animates away. Three variants: fade, slide-up, slide-down. Configurable background color and optional logo URL.
• The cortina is mirrored between entry and exit: with slide-up it rises across the screen on both legs of the navigation; with slide-down it descends; with fade it crossfades.
• Builder-safe (doesn’t run inside Bricks / Elementor / Breakdance / Oxygen / Divi / Gutenberg editor previews) and honors prefers-reduced-motion (visitors who prefer reduced motion get instant browser navigation, no click interception).
• Per-link opt-out: add class="no-curtain" or data-no-curtain to any <a> that should navigate instantly (downloads, ajax-driven UIs, etc.). External links, target="_blank", modifier-key clicks, middle-clicks, #anchor links and mailto:/tel: links are never intercepted.
• Graceful degradation: if JavaScript is disabled or the theme doesn’t call wp_body_open(), the module falls back cleanly. bfcache-safe (back button works correctly).

1.13.0

• Removed the “Integrations” tab from the admin panel. The toggle never had an observable effect for normal users — URL-based detection (?bricks=run, ?elementor-preview, etc.) already covers all mainstream page builders, and the body-class CSS exclusion is now applied to all known editors by default. One less knob to confuse you, same builder compatibility behaviour. No action needed if you had configured the toggle — your saved value is now ignored.

1.12.9

• Hotfix for the new easings shipped in 1.12.8: Bounce Out and Snap Out were silently falling back to Ease Out (looked identical). The translator missed the hyphenated forms back-out / circ-out that the dropdown emits, so these values weren’t being recognised by the underlying animation engine. Now both work as intended — Bounce Out actually bounces, Snap Out actually snaps.

1.12.8

• Three new easing options in the Modules settings panel: Ease In (slow start, fast end — useful for exits), Bounce Out (slight overshoot then settles — playful for CTAs), and Snap Out (sharper than ease-out — feels modern and snappy). Total goes from 4 to 7 easing curves. Existing data-am-easing values keep working unchanged.

1.12.7

• Easing curves now actually work. Long-standing bug since v1.0: every easing option in the admin dropdown (Ease Out, Ease In Out, Linear, Premium Apple-like) was being silently ignored by the underlying animation engine, which fell back to its default ease for every single animation regardless of what was selected. Fixed across all 18 animation modules. Visual change: animations on existing sites will now respect the easing setting you picked — most look subtly different, and the Premium (Apple-like) curve in particular is dramatically smoother since it never applied at all before. If you preferred the old look, set the easing to “Ease In Out” (which is closest to Motion’s previous default).

1.12.6

• Updated the underlying Motion animation library from 11.18.x to 12.38.0. ~12 months of upstream bug fixes plus better hardware acceleration on scroll-linked animations (Parallax, Image Parallax, Text Fill on Scroll). Bundle size grows by ~3 KB gzipped on the main animation chunk; per-module chunks unchanged. No API or CSS class changes — your existing markup keeps working as-is.

1.12.5

• Animicro Pro: synced internal docs and tightened the licensing flow to match LicenSuite v4. Plugin deactivation now cleans the local connection (matches Bricks / WP Rocket / Elementor); the seat stays listed under “Connected sites” in the LicenSuite dashboard until the user revokes it manually. Dropped the v1.11.x → v1.12.x migration scaffolding (no installations to migrate). No user-facing changes in the free tier.

1.12.4

• Animicro Pro: critical fix for the v3 Connect flow. The validation calls to LicenSuite were being rejected by the Supabase JWT layer before the function code ran (“Last check: Never” in the dashboard), so Pro modules never unlocked even after a successful Connect. The plugin now sends the public Supabase anon key in the Authorization header (to satisfy JWT verification) and the per-site connection secret in the request body (where the function reads it). No user-facing changes in the free tier.

1.12.3

• Animicro Pro: fixes a bug introduced by the v3 Connect migration where the License page showed “License active, Plan: PRO” but Pro modules stayed locked in the modules grid. The premium check now always re-derives the answer from current connection state instead of trusting a possibly-stale internal flag, and the premium-tier list is now filterable so custom dashboard plans (e.g. agency, studio) can unlock Pro features without a code change. No user-facing changes in the free tier.

1.12.2

• Animicro Pro: license panel now shows the plan name as configured by the operator on the LicenSuite dashboard (e.g. “Pro”, “Agency”, “Enterprise 50 sites”), instead of an uppercased slug. Internal upgrade to LicenSuite v4.0 plan shape (rich object with slug + name + max_sites). No user-facing changes in the free tier.

1.12.1

• Hotfix for Animicro Pro: the License page could crash with a blank screen right after a successful Connect when the LicenSuite server returned the plan field as an object instead of a plain string. The plugin now normalizes the plan shape on the PHP side and the React UI is defensive against any shape. No user-facing changes in the free tier.

1.12.0

• No user-facing changes in the free tier. Animicro Pro migrates to the LicenSuite v3 Connect flow: instead of pasting a license key, users click a “Connect” button to link their account from the LicenSuite dashboard. Existing Pro users will see a one-time “Reconnect” banner after the upgrade.

1.11.3

• Cleaner admin UX: third-party admin notices (SEO plugins, security tools, etc.) are now suppressed on the Animicro settings screens. They keep showing on every other /wp-admin/ page — they just no longer break the Animicro panel layout. This is the standard practice in plugins like Bricks, Elementor and ACF Pro.

1.11.2

• No user-facing changes in the free tier. Internal release-pipeline tooling: GitHub Actions now publishes a Release with the built ZIPs on every v* tag, and Animicro Pro gains in-dashboard auto-updates from those Releases. Free updates continue to flow through wordpress.org as usual.

1.11.1

• No user-facing changes in the free tier. Internal compatibility update for the licence backend used by Animicro Pro (multi-site licensing, automatic seat release on plugin deactivation, local-development bypass on localhost / *.local / *.test).

1.11.0

• New Free module: Zoom Hover (.am-hover-zoom) — image scales up on hover. Tunable via data-am-zoom-scale. Parent needs overflow: hidden.
• New Pro module: Image Parallax (.am-img-parallax) — “window effect” that translates the inner <img> on scroll inside an overflow: hidden frame.
• New admin category: Media & Images.

1.10.3

• No user-facing changes in the free tier. Internal consistency pass: deduplicated the data-am-loop row in the Pro Cheat Sheet, simplified the frontend module loader, and added .am-parallax to the base visibility selector for consistency.

1.10.2

• No user-facing changes in the free tier. Internal hardening and reliability improvements for Pro-only modules (Text Reveal, Text Fill on Scroll).

1.10.1

• Accessibility: entry animations no longer stay hidden when the admin enables Respect Reduced Motion and the visitor prefers reduced motion. The CSS safety net now forces the final visible state (matching the no-JS behaviour).
• Docs: Slide Left / Slide Right descriptions rephrased for clarity.
• Internal: removed a dead fallback branch in skew-up.js.

1.10.0

• New Free module: Skew Up (.am-skew-up) — entry animation that slides up with a slight skew and straightens as it stops (Stripe / Vercel-style).
• New Free category: Continuous (Infinite) — animations that loop forever with no viewport trigger.
• New Free module: Float (.am-float) — infinite soft up/down floating motion. Perfect for 3D illustrations, icons, and hero art. Tunable via data-am-amplitude and data-am-duration (cycle length).
• New Free module: Pulse (.am-pulse) — infinite gentle scale pulse, breathing-like. Great for badges, CTAs, and call-to-action buttons. Tunable via data-am-scale-max and data-am-duration (cycle length).
• Float and Pulse respect prefers-reduced-motion: reduce and skip the animation entirely for visitors who opt out of motion.

1.9.0

• Slide Left (.am-slide-left) and Slide Right (.am-slide-right) are now part of the Free tier. Free users get four slide directions (up, down, left, right) out of the box. No configuration change needed if you’re upgrading — just enable them from the Animicro → Modules panel.

1.8.0

• Loop support on entry animations — fade, scale, slide-up, slide-down, slide-left, slide-right and blur now accept data-am-loop="true" to repeat forever. Use data-am-loop-mode (pingpong default, or restart) and data-am-loop-delay to fine-tune. Loop is opt-in per element and automatically skipped under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce.

1.7.0

• Typewriter: major upgrade — rotating strings via data-am-strings (pipe- or JSON-separated), with data-am-prefix / data-am-suffix wrapping the rotating word. State machine types forward, holds, deletes, and cycles through the list. New controls: Back speed, Back delay, Loop, Shuffle, Cursor character, Cursor persist.
• Typewriter: breaking change — the cursor now stays blinking after typing ends by default (classic typewriter look). Set data-am-cursor-persist="false" (or disable the admin toggle) to restore the 1.6 fade-out behaviour.
• Typewriter: accessibility improved — aria-label exposes the full prefix + strings.join(", ") + suffix so screen readers announce the complete phrase once instead of per-character.
• Admin: the Typewriter settings panel now exposes Typing speed, Back speed, Back delay, Cursor character, Loop, Shuffle and Cursor persist toggles, with a live rotating preview.

1.6.0

• Highlight: fixed delay bug where a stray data-am-delay attribute on the page could produce absurdly long delays (e.g. 20 s). Delay and duration are now clamped in JS. Marker moved from ::after to ::before with display: inline-block for accurate width tracking inside all builders. Double-init guard added.
• Typewriter: now respects prefers-reduced-motion (shows full text immediately with no animation). Cursor CSS moved out of runtime style injection into the stylesheet. New data-am-cursor attribute for a custom cursor character. Double-init guard added.
• Admin: color pickers for Highlight and Text Fill on Scroll now support opacity (alpha slider + 8-char hex) and CSS variable tokens such as var(--brand-100).

1.5.0

• No user-facing changes in the free tier. Internal restructuring to align the free and Pro codebases.

1.4.0

• Security: REST API settings endpoint now verifies nonce on write requests (CSRF hardening)
• Security: Numeric animation settings (duration, delay, distance, scale, typingSpeed) clamped to safe ranges
• Security: margin setting validated against CSS shorthand whitelist
• Security: Module IDs validated as CSS-safe identifiers before CSS injection
• Performance: admin menu SVG icon pre-encoded as constant (eliminates runtime base64 computation)
• Performance: animicro_settings option now stored with autoload=false
• Reliability: manifest read failures now logged to PHP error log when WP_DEBUG is enabled
• Filter: animicro_upgrade_url filter added for white-label customisation

1.3.0

• WordPress.org compliance: free package contains only free functionality (no gated Pro code in the distributed plugin)
• Removed automatic deactivation of other plugins
• readme.txt: Source Code section linking to GitHub for full uncompressed sources
• Release ZIPs use versioned filenames (animicro-X.Y.Z.zip)

1.2.0

• Highlight and Typewriter modules moved to the Free tier — available to all users without a Pro license
• Dynamic builder-compatibility CSS now injected via wp_add_inline_style() (WP.org Plugin Check compliant)
• Free plugin row shows an “Upgrade” link pointing to animicro.com
• Added External Services disclosure section
• Minor internal hardening of script type injection

1.1.0

• Architecture improvements: free plugin ships without any license code or premium gating
• Module cards link to animicro.com for upgrade information
• Build tooling improvements

1.0.3

• Freemium architecture: free version fully functional without license checks
• Improved builder compatibility

1.0.0

• Initial release