SmartText Rotator – Add Motion to Your Words

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 82% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ Marcus Farmer

   2.7y ago

   It looks like it works well with 3-5 words, but more than that and it gets stuck… Also, most of the effects are paid for in the pro version.

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2. ★★★★★ kostiantyn

   2.9y ago

   Most of the effects are in a PRO version only which is not clear from the plugin description.

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3. ★★★★★ coroleu

   2.9y ago

   Misleading description. It is never made clear that most of the effects are paid for. Just said: EFFECTS INCLUDED Typing Effect Type Writer Effect Fade Effect Clip Effect Flip Cube Effect Zoom Effect Rotate Effect Loading Bar Effect Push Effect Slide Effect

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4. ★★★★★ byvezir01

   4.2y ago

   an excellent plugin. It has seen my every need for text and has beautiful animations. Thanks to the plugin owner for their help.

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5. ★★★★★ bloew11

   4.3y ago

   Whenever you change something, it breaks or doesn’t update properly. Needs many improvements.

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6. ★★★★★ DiviUser

   5.2y ago

   Fast, Easy, Works as I Wanted

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7. ★★★★★ Labib Ahmed

   5.5y ago

   Great tool to show animated sentences.

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8. ★★★★★ rliv664

   6.1y ago

   This is a nice plugin that does the job as a simple text rotator, but it is just too buggy/glitchy to use. After playing around with it a bit, it lacks basic customisation – you can’t anchor the start/end words in place (they move when the animated word changes), can’t select an ending word to land on (so your sentence doesn’t look half complete when the cycle is over), can’t repeat the cycle, nor change the font. Some of the animations also cause words to go glitchy and appear in random places and when they shouldn’t (this is also visible on their demo page). I was interested in buying the premium version hoping that it would allow more customisation, but it doesn’t tell you what the premium version includes. It’s implied that you get additional animations but nothing else unless I missed something. The support page doesn’t seem manned as threads from 1/2/3/4 years ago haven’t been replied to (publically, at least) so not reassuring. I feel this is a great plugin for people who know how to make tweaks themselves, but for someone who has no coding experience, it’s not for me.

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3 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.3 Dynamic Word Spinner: CSS3 Animated Rotation <= 5.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2024-07-11 CVE-2024-38753 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 5.6 Patched in 5.7
2. Medium · 4.3 Animated Rotating Words <= 5.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via save_admin_options ↗
   2023-11-03 CVE-2023-47187 Missing Authorization Affects <= 5.4 Patched in 5.5
3. Medium · 4.3 Animated Rotating Words <= 5.4 - Missing Authorization via save_admin_options ↗
   2023-11-03 CVE-2023-47187 Missing Authorization Affects <= 5.4 Patched in 5.5

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.6.1

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Competes with

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• Easy Textillate 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
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• Blurry – Mobile menu 70+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D
• Image Puzzle 30+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Just Animate – For Classic Editor 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• Brozzme Hover integration 10+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D

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SmartText Rotator – Add Motion to Your Words: 1K+ active installs, 3.5★ (11 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/css3-rotating-words