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Actively maintained Tested with WP 7.1 #587 most installed plugin #2 in animation

Greenshift – animation and page builder blocks

More than 20 special blocks for Gutenberg to build complex pages and animations with highest possible web vitals score.

Active installs70K+50K+ tier
Downloads · 30d62.8K▼ -28.5% vs prev. 30d
Rating4.8/5107 reviews
Health score79/100Good
All-time downloads4MSince Jan 2022
Support resolved0 / 30% in last 2 months
RequiresWP 6.9PHP 7.3+
Overall rank#587of 69,475 plugins
Our verdict

Solid choice

Greenshift is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 70K+ sites, is rated 4.8/5 and was last updated 3 weeks ago, and scores 79/100 on our health check.

  • Proven at scale on 70K+ active sites
  • Loved by users — 4.8/5 from 107 reviews
  • Actively developed — last update 3 weeks ago
  • Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

4.9K9.9K14.8KJun 28Aug 11Sep 25
Yesterday456
Daily average (1y)2,840
Peak day19,714Aug 20, 2026
Last 12 months1M

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Greenshift stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
animation #2 3,367 Best animation plugins →
full-site-editing #6 3,165 Best full-site-editing plugins →
gutenberg blocks #47 6,529 Best gutenberg blocks plugins →
page builder #12 8,522 Best page builder plugins →
woocommerce blocks #24 6,807 Best woocommerce blocks plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 13.254.4%
  • 13.115.1%
  • 12.97.7%
  • Other22.7%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 from 107 reviews

  • 5★88.8%
  • 4★5.6%
  • 3★1.9%
  • 2★1.9%
  • 1★1.9%

About Greenshift

From the official readme · v13.2.0

Description

HIGHLY OPTIMIZED WEB CREATION TOOL

Do you want to build high quality animations and pages but you struggle with low performance on google tests with popular page builder? Greenshift will take care of this.

Plugin doesn’t use predefined styles, frameworks, icon fonts and script libraries. Every asset is generated on fly and loaded only when you use it. In the same time, plugin has very unique blocks and animation possibilities to surprise your visitors with high-end animations and transitions. You can build styles like on top awarded sites without any code knowledge.

Check out Greenshift block gallery

SOME EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS

✅ Ready library of sections and layouts with FSE support
✅ Interaction Layes. Add interactivity to blocks with triggers, conditions and actions
✅ Dynamic attributes and dynamic motion. Make chains of animations and connections with dynamic data
✅ Advanced containers, Rows, CSS grid. Control every aspect of align, spacing, position, flexible position, responsive up to 4 breakpoints, flexbox and css grid options.
✅ Design helpers in editor. Change position, spacing, border, size directly in editor
✅ Mobile smart scroll for sections and Marquee block. Turn your regular columns and blocks to scrollable items on mobiles or carousels.
✅ Advanced sliders and tabs. Make any kind of content as carousel/slider/tabs. Convert regular gallery to advanced 3d slider
✅ Extended background options (color/gradient/videos) and overlays with hover transitions.
✅ CSS scroll animations and hover transitions without libraries.
✅ AR/VR 3d viewer block and Spline3d block.
✅ Dynamic blocks: animated headlines, countdown, counters, videos, tabs, togglers, Table of content, progress bars etc.
✅ Easily control all options for separate resolutions
✅ Parent Hover transitions and background animations
✅ Custom side and dropdown slide panels, popup builder
✅ Local font, GDPR ready
✅ Figma Converter
✅ Any webpage and website to WordPress Greenshift Converter
✅ Dynamic data, repeaters, Meta getter to get any data from custom fields, user meta, site options, transients, external feeds, etc
✅ Visibility options

ADVANCED PAGE DESIGNS AND ANIMATIONS

With Greenshift’s features, you can create complex pages and animations without code skills and directly inside core editor. Add spacing, positioning, css transform, shadows, borders like you can’t do in any other page builder. Use Shadow presets, hover transition presets, overlay transitions, infinite css animations, Headline Effects, Custom Animations, Gradient Backgrounds, Shape Dividers, parental transitions and many more.

To view some unique options, visit feature page.

EXTENDED RESPONSIVE OPTIONS

Mobile traffic is even more than desktop nowadays, and Greenshift has everything to make your mobile web design better. It provides 4 custom breakpoints, preview mode and possibility to add different values per each resolution. All blocks have special optimized mobile layouts. Also, you can shift your regular columned design to smart scroll on mobiles to generate Application-style design.

DYNAMIC LOADING

We understand that you may want to keep your current page editor, but in the same time you want to use some features from Greenshift. For this purpose, we added possibility to convert blocks and pages to shortcode. You can use them directly in your plugin or custom pages. And even more, we added possibility to load blocks dynamically when they are in view, or by click/hover. This can save page perfomance on heavy pages.

Highest web vitals score

We believe that Greenshift is most optimized plugin for web vitals. It’s because plugin uses unique conditional asset loading. All blocks are divided on style chunks which are loaded only when you use them on page. All dynamic libraries have no jquery dependencies. All styles are loaded inline in head section of page to prevent CLS and incompatibilities with cache plugins. Reusable blocks, Widget and Template environments are supported.

TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH GREENSHIFT ADDONS

All our core features are free and will be free always. We don’t sell any premium versions and don’t limit functionality. In the same time, you may be interesting in extra blocks depending on your type of site. Check full list of addon’s blocks for wordpress

ANIMATION ADDON

You can add any custom animation in core version, but Animation addon will give you more options based on popular GSAP library. Custom parallaxes, different triggers for animations (scroll, hover, click, stagger, batch), controll interpolation with scroll, Pin blocks while scroll, make Smooth flip between states, use Smart Lottie loader, add animated blobs, reveals, mouse interactions, animation chains and connections, text and svg animations, image sequences and video loaders. Use Rive block to add Rive scenes and our special API to connect dynamic site values and Rive.

QUERY ADDON

Query addon is usefull if you want to extend dynamic functionality. It has a lot of ready patterns for query loop block, you can customize and extend each of them with special Meta getter block (use to get and show any values from custom field, ACF, ToolSet or taxonomy meta), wishlist block, thumbs and hot counter. Visibility block allows you to show/hide content based on different filters (category, tags, taxonomy, custom field value, user roles, detection of current category). Advanced listing builder helps you to build directory listings. Query Builder allows you to build any kind of design for CPT loops and carousels.

SEO AND MARKETING ADDON

We have very long 10 year story of developing different tools for affiliate, review, comparison sites. In coordination with best affiliate professionals and bloggers, we built set of special, highly conversion blocks to earn more profit from your sites. Link parser helpers, offer blocks, comparison and versus tables, listings, score and review boxes, woocommerce boxes. All blocks have special mobile layouts.

WOOCOMMERCE ADDON

Add woocommerce blocks to FSE. Extend your shop with extra features like Buy now button, Free shipping, Sold out counters, Bundles, Combos, sliding panels, swatches, attribute groups, extra single product templates, custom tabs, ajax search and many more.

Any webpage to WordPress Converter

Convert any webpage or HTML design to Greenshift blocks.. Requires AIO plan

Figma to WordPress Converter

Convert any Figma design to Greenshift blocks in one click.. Free to everyone.

AI Helper

AI Helper is a tool that helps you to build blocks with AI. Use own API keys, no GreenShift subscriptions, no payment to GreenShift required. AI requests are sent directly to the selected third-party AI provider.

= HTML code to WordPress Blocks converter=
HTML source to blocks converter Put any kind of html with css and js snippets and it will be converted to dynamic blocks

Third Party Services

This plugin can connect to external third-party services in certain situations:

GreenShift Shop

When you activate a premium license for GreenShift addons, the plugin connects to our licensing server at https://shop.greenshiftwp.com/ to verify and activate your license key. This connection sends your license key and site URL for validation purposes. No other data is sent to third parties. This connection is made only in time of activation of license, this is not required to use plugin without license.

GreenShift Template Library

When you browse or import layouts, templates, categories, or related template assets from the GreenShift library, the plugin connects to https://greenshift.wpsoul.net/ to retrieve the requested template library data. The request may include selected category IDs, tag IDs, page numbers, layout IDs, and download URLs needed to load or import the selected layout. This connection is used only when interacting with the template library or importing a template.

Installation

Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page.

Frequently asked questions

Does GreenShift work with all the themes?

Greenshift works with all themes that follow the coding standards of WordPress. But we recommend to use Gutenberg optimized themes and FSE themes.

Can it be used inside other page builders?

You can create templates in Reusable template section and plugin will create shortcode for template. You can use this shortcode in any other page builders and areas which are not controlled by Gutenberg editor

Does it work with other WordPress Gutenberg plugins?

Yes, all codes are block based, so you can combine it with other plugins and blocks.

Do I need to know how to code?

No! Greenshift uses most modern functionality for browsers, but it has visual UI to control everything via editor. In the same time, there is Custom Css option which you can use to add custom code if you need it.

Can I get 100 web vitals score?

Yes, we guarantee that Greenshift is built on top of google recommendations and you can build even complex pages and keep 100 score on mobiles (in cases if you have optimized theme, good hosting and not overloaded page).

Changelog

13.2.0

  • Fixed: Stored XSS in GSAP animation data attributes – the customProps, customPropsM and multianimations values are now HTML escaped before they are written into the block markup, so a value saved by a lower privileged user (Contributor and up) can no longer break out of the attribute and inject an event handler. Reported by Revanth Hari Narayana Matte
  • Fixed: Server Side Request Forgery in the CSV to JSON REST endpoint – CSV imports are now limited to Google Sheets hosts (docs.google.com, spreadsheets.google.com) over https instead of fetching any URL the request asks for. Reported by Alireza Kalhor
  • Added: gspb_allowed_csv_hosts filter, for site owners who host their CSV data on another trusted host
  • Fixed: chart CSV link is now URL encoded when it is passed to the CSV endpoint, so published Google Sheets links with several query parameters are no longer truncated

13.1.9

  • Fixed: global class was removed from block classes, but stayed in block attributes, when it was deleted in class selector right after selecting it (synchronization request with database restored deleted class)
  • Improved: breakpoints now injected from theme.json if they are existed

13.1.8

  • Changed: theme.json custom breakpoints (settings.viewport, WordPress 7.1+) are now applied automatically to frontend styles – no option needed; the “Overwrite breakpoints by theme.json” checkbox was removed and the Breakpoints settings show the detected theme values instead
  • Improved: breakpoints are resolved once per request (theme.json lookup and settings are cached), so the automatic check adds no measurable overhead to style rendering

13.1.7

  • Added: Support for custom responsive breakpoints from theme.json (settings.viewport, WordPress 7.1+) – editor preview styles and device preview widths now follow the theme breakpoints automatically, matching the core responsive engine and themes like Blocksy
  • Added: “Overwrite breakpoints by theme.json” option in Breakpoints settings – applies the theme.json breakpoints to frontend styles instead of the manual Tablet and Desktop values

13.1.6

  • Fixed: Responsive device styles and toolbar synchronization now work correctly in the WordPress 7.1 editor, with fallback support for WordPress 7.0 and older editor APIs

13.1.5

  • Added: text-stroke support in server side style rendering
  • Fixed: Server side rendering and preparation for full on fly css rendering which is better for agents (disabling plugin do not break frontend).
  • Improvements: better API keys handling, few UI updates

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

Screenshots

Smart Scroll. Turn any elements or columns to scrollable/carousel block for mobiles
Smart Scroll. Turn any elements or columns to scrollable/carousel block for mobiles
Fast CSS grid. Use smart css grid container if you need perfectly aligned equal height columns
Fast CSS grid. Use smart css grid container if you need perfectly aligned equal height…
Flexible Container. Use FlexBox options to align elements perfectly
Flexible Container. Use FlexBox options to align elements perfectly
Advanced Sliders and Carousels. Add custom slider to any blocks. Convert galleries to sliders
Advanced Sliders and Carousels. Add custom slider to any blocks. Convert galleries to…
Shape dividers. Select predefined shapes, control color, gradient, animation
Shape dividers. Select predefined shapes, control color, gradient, animation
Css 3d transformations. Add any kind of css transformations, including 3d effect
Css 3d transformations. Add any kind of css transformations, including 3d effect
Sliding panels, popups. Build custom sliding panels, add any block, use for mega menus
Sliding panels, popups. Build custom sliding panels, add any block, use for mega menus

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FAQ

Greenshift: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 26, 2026

Is Greenshift free?

Yes. Greenshift is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Greenshift safe to use in 2026?

Greenshift is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 70K+ sites, is rated 4.8/5 and was last updated 3 weeks ago, and scores 79/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Greenshift?

Greenshift is active on 70K+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 3,983,057 times since it launched in January 2022. It was downloaded 62,757 times in the last 30 days.

Does Greenshift work with WordPress 7.1?

Yes. The developer has tested Greenshift up to WordPress 7.2, the latest release. It requires WordPress 6.9 or newer.

What PHP version does Greenshift need?

Greenshift requires PHP 7.3 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was Greenshift last updated?

The latest version, 13.2.0, was released on September 2, 2026 (3 weeks ago).

Who makes Greenshift?

Greenshift is developed and maintained by wpsoul.

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The most popular alternatives to Greenshift are Blocks Animation: CSS Anima… (90K+ installs), UiCore Animate (40K+ installs) and Animation Addons for Elemen… (10K+ installs).

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