Essential Hover Effects
Essential Hover Effects plugin is a collection of over 50 beautiful Hover effects that helps you to easily create magnificent interactive IMAGES or GRID in your website
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Essential Hover Effects shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 10+ sites and was last updated 6 years ago, and scores 23/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (10+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
- No update in 6 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 5.4 (latest is 7.1)
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & supportDaily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Essential Hover Effects stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| animation effects | >100 |
| caption hovers | >100 |
| css effects | >100 |
| css wordpress | >100 |
| CSS3 | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
About Essential Hover Effects
From the official readme · v1.0.5Description
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Essential Hover Effects plugin is a collection of over 50 beautiful Hover effects that helps you to easily create magnificent interactive IMAGES or GRID in your website
You can easily add hover effects using an image & embed them using shortcode in separate page or post.
Features
- 50+ premium hover effects.
- Bootstrap columns.
- Each item for each effect per row
- Select item column to be shown in a row
- Custom image width.
- Custom image height.
- Custom hover item ordering.
- 100% mobile respossive.
- Fully shortcode powered.
- Amazing shortcode generator when you update the post
- Shortcode in widget supported
- 700+ Google fonts for heading and description with parameter.
- Custom font size for title and description.
- Custom font style for title and description
- Unlimited font color for title and description.
- External link for each hover item.
- Open link in new tab.
- Custom CSS for each style.
- Latest WordPress compatible.
- 24/7 Support.
Installation
Installing this plugin as regular wordpress plugin.
After install, this plugin enable a custom post called E Hover Effects in wp dashboard menu. Click on Add New >> Add New Hover Item >> Set images and other info from settings >> Click on again Add New Hover Item for adding more item….
After adding items, click on publish from the right wp menu to publish the post, then you will see its post shortcode. Just copy shortcode from there and you are ready to use this shortcode in your post, page and widget.
Go to page > Add New. On the editor, just paste the shortcode. Enjoy!
Changelog
Tested with wordpress 5.4
1.0.5
- Tested with wordpress 5.4
1.0.4
- Tested with wordpress 5.2
1.0.3
- Updated plugin
1.0.2
- WordPress 5 ready
1.0.1
- Added new setting
1.0.0
- First Release
For developers
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Best Essential Hover Effects alternatives
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| 2 |
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| 3 |
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FAQ
Essential Hover Effects: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 13, 2026
Is Essential Hover Effects free?
Yes. Essential Hover Effects is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Essential Hover Effects safe to use in 2026?
Essential Hover Effects shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 10+ sites and was last updated 6 years ago, and scores 23/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Essential Hover Effects?
Essential Hover Effects is active on 10+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 2,007 times since it launched in September 2018. It was downloaded 69 times in the last 30 days.
Does Essential Hover Effects work with WordPress 7.1?
Essential Hover Effects is officially tested up to WordPress 5.4.24, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Essential Hover Effects last updated?
The latest version, 1.0.5, was released on May 29, 2020 (6 years ago).
Who makes Essential Hover Effects?
Essential Hover Effects is developed and maintained by themebon.
What are the best alternatives to Essential Hover Effects?
The most popular alternatives to Essential Hover Effects are blinking stars effect (<10 installs), floating price tag (<10 installs) and Wedevlops Custom Horizontal… (<10 installs).
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