Personal project2020

Animentor

Lottie animations as an Elementor widget.

A WordPress plugin that bridges Lottie and the Elementor page builder. What previously needed custom code became a drag-and-drop widget, wired into the Media Library, with full playback controls in the Elementor panel.

At a glance
RoleSole authorPlatformWordPress & ElementorStackPHP, JavaScript, LottieLive since2020
LottieIn an Elementor widget
Drag & dropInstead of custom code
ControlsPlayback, loop, autoplay
Open sourceOn GitHub
Screens

In the builder

A third-party review of the plugin, plus the widget’s content, animation options and style controls inside the Elementor editor.

The Animentor widget dropped onto an Elementor page
Animation options in the Elementor panel
Style and sizing controls for the widget
The work

What I own

A personal project, published as a plugin: written, documented and released on my own.

No custom code required

Before this, putting a Lottie animation into an Elementor site meant hand-written embed code. Animentor turns it into a widget you drag onto the page.

Media Library integration

Animation files live where every other asset lives, so uploading, reusing and swapping them works exactly the way editors already expect.

Playback in the panel

Speed, autoplay, loop, reversed playback, play on mouse over and on-mouse-out behaviour are all normal Elementor controls, alongside the usual style and sizing panels.

Built for the people using it

The audience is site builders, not developers: the plugin’s job is to make a technical asset format feel like any other Elementor element.