Description
Let’s make your numbers stand out by animating them while still keeping them SEO-friendly and accessibility-ready. The number can be counted up or down.
Key features
- It can be counted up or down depending on the start value and the real value
- SEO and Accessibility ready – Screen readers will read the actual number value, not the animated one.
- It can be fit in any design
- Highly customizable with a large range of options like duration, separator, decimal, etc.
- You can animate it one time or multiple times whenever the block appears in the viewport
- You can provide a prefix and/or a suffix value
- The animated effect will not be shown in the reduced motion mode
Please take a look at these custom block patterns that use this block to see how it can be applied to real-world sites.
If this plugin is useful for you, please do a quick review and rate it on WordPress.org to help us spread the word. I would very much appreciate it.
Other plugins
Please check out my other plugins if you’re interested:
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- Meta Field Block – A block to display a meta field or an ACF field as a block. It can also be used in the Query Loop block.
- Block Enhancements – A plugin to add more useful features to blocks like icon, box-shadow, transform, hover style…
- Icon separator – A tiny block just like the core/separator block but with the ability to add an icon to it.
- SVG Block – A block to insert inline SVG images easily and safely. It also bundles with more than 3000 icons and some common non-rectangular dividers.
- Breadcrumb Block – A simple breadcrumb trail block that supports JSON-LD structured data.
- Better YouTube Embed Block – Embed YouTube videos without slowing down your site.
The plugin is developed using @wordpress/create-block.
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- Counting number block This block provides an animated counter effect for numbers.
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/counting-number-block
directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
FAQ
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Why and when would you need this plugin?
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If you want to highlight your numbers, you could use this plugin to make a counting effect.
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Does it fit in my design?
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Absolutely! It is super simple. It only animates the number, you can put it in any layout blocks.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Counting Number Block” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.1.0
Release Date – 30 June 2024
- Improved – Support accessibility for the actual value
- Improved – Don’t animate the number in the reduced motion mode
- Added – Support clientNavigation interactivity
- Added – Allow editing content attributes from the block toolbar
- Improved – Refactor the code
- Updated – Tested up to WP 6.6
1.0.7
Release Date – 10 August 2023
- DEV – Add a CSS class named
is-number-animating
when it’s counting - DEV – Show the
startVal
at the beginning - DEV – Refactor code
1.0.6
Release Date – 22 March 2023
- DEV – Make the block animate the trailing zero in decimal places
1.0.5
Release Date – 31 January 2023
- DEV – Add settings for disabling grouping, grouping separator, decimal separator
- DEV – Add more typography settings
- DEV – Add keywords for blocks
1.0.4
Release Date – 16 October 2022
- FIX – Refactor code to allow animate the number both scroll up & down
1.0.3
Release Date – 16 September 2022
- FIX – Change textdomain
1.0.1
Release Date – 20 July 2022
- FIX – Allow animating decimal numbers
- FIX – Animate on load
1.0.0
Release Date – 13 July 2022