Animicro

Changelog

1.13.0

• Removed the “Integrations” tab from the admin panel. The toggle never had an observable effect for normal users — URL-based detection (?bricks=run, ?elementor-preview, etc.) already covers all mainstream page builders, and the body-class CSS exclusion is now applied to all known editors by default. One less knob to confuse you, same builder compatibility behaviour. No action needed if you had configured the toggle — your saved value is now ignored.

1.12.9

• Hotfix for the new easings shipped in 1.12.8: Bounce Out and Snap Out were silently falling back to Ease Out (looked identical). The translator missed the hyphenated forms back-out / circ-out that the dropdown emits, so these values weren’t being recognised by the underlying animation engine. Now both work as intended — Bounce Out actually bounces, Snap Out actually snaps.

1.12.8

• Three new easing options in the Modules settings panel: Ease In (slow start, fast end — useful for exits), Bounce Out (slight overshoot then settles — playful for CTAs), and Snap Out (sharper than ease-out — feels modern and snappy). Total goes from 4 to 7 easing curves. Existing data-am-easing values keep working unchanged.

1.12.7

• Easing curves now actually work. Long-standing bug since v1.0: every easing option in the admin dropdown (Ease Out, Ease In Out, Linear, Premium Apple-like) was being silently ignored by the underlying animation engine, which fell back to its default ease for every single animation regardless of what was selected. Fixed across all 18 animation modules. Visual change: animations on existing sites will now respect the easing setting you picked — most look subtly different, and the Premium (Apple-like) curve in particular is dramatically smoother since it never applied at all before. If you preferred the old look, set the easing to “Ease In Out” (which is closest to Motion’s previous default).

1.12.6

• Updated the underlying Motion animation library from 11.18.x to 12.38.0. ~12 months of upstream bug fixes plus better hardware acceleration on scroll-linked animations (Parallax, Image Parallax, Text Fill on Scroll). Bundle size grows by ~3 KB gzipped on the main animation chunk; per-module chunks unchanged. No API or CSS class changes — your existing markup keeps working as-is.

1.12.5

• Animicro Pro: synced internal docs and tightened the licensing flow to match LicenSuite v4. Plugin deactivation now cleans the local connection (matches Bricks / WP Rocket / Elementor); the seat stays listed under “Connected sites” in the LicenSuite dashboard until the user revokes it manually. Dropped the v1.11.x → v1.12.x migration scaffolding (no installations to migrate). No user-facing changes in the free tier.

1.12.4

• Animicro Pro: critical fix for the v3 Connect flow. The validation calls to LicenSuite were being rejected by the Supabase JWT layer before the function code ran (“Last check: Never” in the dashboard), so Pro modules never unlocked even after a successful Connect. The plugin now sends the public Supabase anon key in the Authorization header (to satisfy JWT verification) and the per-site connection secret in the request body (where the function reads it). No user-facing changes in the free tier.

1.12.3

• Animicro Pro: fixes a bug introduced by the v3 Connect migration where the License page showed “License active, Plan: PRO” but Pro modules stayed locked in the modules grid. The premium check now always re-derives the answer from current connection state instead of trusting a possibly-stale internal flag, and the premium-tier list is now filterable so custom dashboard plans (e.g. agency, studio) can unlock Pro features without a code change. No user-facing changes in the free tier.

1.12.2

• Animicro Pro: license panel now shows the plan name as configured by the operator on the LicenSuite dashboard (e.g. “Pro”, “Agency”, “Enterprise 50 sites”), instead of an uppercased slug. Internal upgrade to LicenSuite v4.0 plan shape (rich object with slug + name + max_sites). No user-facing changes in the free tier.

1.12.1

• Hotfix for Animicro Pro: the License page could crash with a blank screen right after a successful Connect when the LicenSuite server returned the plan field as an object instead of a plain string. The plugin now normalizes the plan shape on the PHP side and the React UI is defensive against any shape. No user-facing changes in the free tier.

1.12.0

• No user-facing changes in the free tier. Animicro Pro migrates to the LicenSuite v3 Connect flow: instead of pasting a license key, users click a “Connect” button to link their account from the LicenSuite dashboard. Existing Pro users will see a one-time “Reconnect” banner after the upgrade.

1.11.3

• Cleaner admin UX: third-party admin notices (SEO plugins, security tools, etc.) are now suppressed on the Animicro settings screens. They keep showing on every other /wp-admin/ page — they just no longer break the Animicro panel layout. This is the standard practice in plugins like Bricks, Elementor and ACF Pro.

1.11.2

• No user-facing changes in the free tier. Internal release-pipeline tooling: GitHub Actions now publishes a Release with the built ZIPs on every v* tag, and Animicro Pro gains in-dashboard auto-updates from those Releases. Free updates continue to flow through wordpress.org as usual.

1.11.1

• No user-facing changes in the free tier. Internal compatibility update for the licence backend used by Animicro Pro (multi-site licensing, automatic seat release on plugin deactivation, local-development bypass on localhost / *.local / *.test).

1.11.0

• New Free module: Zoom Hover (.am-hover-zoom) — image scales up on hover. Tunable via data-am-zoom-scale. Parent needs overflow: hidden.
• New Pro module: Image Parallax (.am-img-parallax) — “window effect” that translates the inner <img> on scroll inside an overflow: hidden frame.
• New admin category: Media & Images.

1.10.3

• No user-facing changes in the free tier. Internal consistency pass: deduplicated the data-am-loop row in the Pro Cheat Sheet, simplified the frontend module loader, and added .am-parallax to the base visibility selector for consistency.

1.10.2

• No user-facing changes in the free tier. Internal hardening and reliability improvements for Pro-only modules (Text Reveal, Text Fill on Scroll).

1.10.1

• Accessibility: entry animations no longer stay hidden when the admin enables Respect Reduced Motion and the visitor prefers reduced motion. The CSS safety net now forces the final visible state (matching the no-JS behaviour).
• Docs: Slide Left / Slide Right descriptions rephrased for clarity.
• Internal: removed a dead fallback branch in skew-up.js.

1.10.0

• New Free module: Skew Up (.am-skew-up) — entry animation that slides up with a slight skew and straightens as it stops (Stripe / Vercel-style).
• New Free category: Continuous (Infinite) — animations that loop forever with no viewport trigger.
• New Free module: Float (.am-float) — infinite soft up/down floating motion. Perfect for 3D illustrations, icons, and hero art. Tunable via data-am-amplitude and data-am-duration (cycle length).
• New Free module: Pulse (.am-pulse) — infinite gentle scale pulse, breathing-like. Great for badges, CTAs, and call-to-action buttons. Tunable via data-am-scale-max and data-am-duration (cycle length).
• Float and Pulse respect prefers-reduced-motion: reduce and skip the animation entirely for visitors who opt out of motion.

1.9.0

• Slide Left (.am-slide-left) and Slide Right (.am-slide-right) are now part of the Free tier. Free users get four slide directions (up, down, left, right) out of the box. No configuration change needed if you’re upgrading — just enable them from the Animicro → Modules panel.

1.8.0

• Loop support on entry animations — fade, scale, slide-up, slide-down, slide-left, slide-right and blur now accept data-am-loop="true" to repeat forever. Use data-am-loop-mode (pingpong default, or restart) and data-am-loop-delay to fine-tune. Loop is opt-in per element and automatically skipped under prefers-reduced-motion: reduce.

1.7.0

• Typewriter: major upgrade — rotating strings via data-am-strings (pipe- or JSON-separated), with data-am-prefix / data-am-suffix wrapping the rotating word. State machine types forward, holds, deletes, and cycles through the list. New controls: Back speed, Back delay, Loop, Shuffle, Cursor character, Cursor persist.
• Typewriter: breaking change — the cursor now stays blinking after typing ends by default (classic typewriter look). Set data-am-cursor-persist="false" (or disable the admin toggle) to restore the 1.6 fade-out behaviour.
• Typewriter: accessibility improved — aria-label exposes the full prefix + strings.join(", ") + suffix so screen readers announce the complete phrase once instead of per-character.
• Admin: the Typewriter settings panel now exposes Typing speed, Back speed, Back delay, Cursor character, Loop, Shuffle and Cursor persist toggles, with a live rotating preview.

1.6.0

• Highlight: fixed delay bug where a stray data-am-delay attribute on the page could produce absurdly long delays (e.g. 20 s). Delay and duration are now clamped in JS. Marker moved from ::after to ::before with display: inline-block for accurate width tracking inside all builders. Double-init guard added.
• Typewriter: now respects prefers-reduced-motion (shows full text immediately with no animation). Cursor CSS moved out of runtime style injection into the stylesheet. New data-am-cursor attribute for a custom cursor character. Double-init guard added.
• Admin: color pickers for Highlight and Text Fill on Scroll now support opacity (alpha slider + 8-char hex) and CSS variable tokens such as var(--brand-100).

1.5.0

• No user-facing changes in the free tier. Internal restructuring to align the free and Pro codebases.

1.4.0

• Security: REST API settings endpoint now verifies nonce on write requests (CSRF hardening)
• Security: Numeric animation settings (duration, delay, distance, scale, typingSpeed) clamped to safe ranges
• Security: margin setting validated against CSS shorthand whitelist
• Security: Module IDs validated as CSS-safe identifiers before CSS injection
• Performance: admin menu SVG icon pre-encoded as constant (eliminates runtime base64 computation)
• Performance: animicro_settings option now stored with autoload=false
• Reliability: manifest read failures now logged to PHP error log when WP_DEBUG is enabled
• Filter: animicro_upgrade_url filter added for white-label customisation

1.3.0

• WordPress.org compliance: free package contains only free functionality (no gated Pro code in the distributed plugin)
• Removed automatic deactivation of other plugins
• readme.txt: Source Code section linking to GitHub for full uncompressed sources
• Release ZIPs use versioned filenames (animicro-X.Y.Z.zip)

1.2.0

• Highlight and Typewriter modules moved to the Free tier — available to all users without a Pro license
• Dynamic builder-compatibility CSS now injected via wp_add_inline_style() (WP.org Plugin Check compliant)
• Free plugin row shows an “Upgrade” link pointing to animicro.com
• Added External Services disclosure section
• Minor internal hardening of script type injection

1.1.0

• Architecture improvements: free plugin ships without any license code or premium gating
• Module cards link to animicro.com for upgrade information
• Build tooling improvements

1.0.3

• Freemium architecture: free version fully functional without license checks
• Improved builder compatibility

1.0.0

• Initial release