KineticHub - Animated Gutenberg Blocks

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

1.0.8

• Fixed Typography wrapping in narrow containers when using split text animations.
• Improved Typography spacing between split words and ampersand characters.
• Improved Typography SEO notice spacing in the editor.
• Restored Cursor Reveal mask animation behavior.
• Added list layout controls to Cursor Reveal.
• Fixed Magnetic Button hover scale conflicts with Float, Lift Up, and Scale Up effects.
• Fixed Kinetic Box grayscale-to-color hover transition behavior.
• Normalized upgrade messaging across block controls.
• Added a lightweight KineticHub Pro dashboard banner for the free plugin.

1.0.7

• Fixed Magnetic Button SVG icon scaling and added left, center, and right alignment.
• Restored useful Cursor Reveal controls in FREE, including responsive typography, subtitle styling, media sizing, reveal masks, hover filters, and a subtle relative hover scale.
• Balanced Scroll Divider vertical spacing.
• Added Split Scroll media reordering and restored compatibility with third-party nested blocks.
• Improved the Audio Player Extended layout on smaller screens.

1.0.6

• Fixed unexpected output during activation caused by UTF-8 BOM characters in the plugin bootstrap file.

1.0.5

• Improved Split Scroll mobile inline media layout when sticky media on mobile is disabled.
• Improved Split Scroll mobile media grouping so each media item stays with its related content section.
• Reduced large spacer gaps in Split Scroll mobile inline mode.

1.0.4

• Fixed Magnetic Button icon clipping and hover layer rendering issues.
• Fixed Kinetic Box nested block rendering by preserving valid child block markup such as canvas and SVG elements.
• Fixed Hero Mesh, Before/After Slider, and other visual child blocks when nested inside Kinetic Box.
• Fixed Split Scroll mobile media fallback when sticky media on mobile is disabled.
• Updated selected block preview images.

1.0.2

• Fixed a WordPress.org package bootstrap issue that could require a missing vendor dependency on activation.

1.0.1

• Updated the plugin display name for clearer branding in the WordPress Plugins screen.
• Improved the WordPress.org readme content and formatting.

1.0.0

• Initial stable release.
• Added 12 Gutenberg blocks.
• Added contextual block asset loading.
• Added reduced-motion handling for motion-heavy effects.
• Added KineticHub dashboard for global settings and block management.
• Added source files and build instructions for WordPress.org distribution.