5 Best Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 5 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 5 closest alternatives to Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder
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Page Transition
Closest match4.5 (33) 700+ active installsPage Transition is a simple and easy wordpress plugin used to add page transition using CSS3 animations. Show your page with modern animations.
Shares the animations, CSS3 tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since September 15, 2014.
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5.0 (24) 1,000+ active installsA simple progress bar shortcode that can be styled with CSS
Shares the CSS3 tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since May 5, 2025.
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4.9 (112) 10,000+ active installsA free responsive slider that supports layers. Add texts, images, videos and beautify them with transitions and animations.
Shares the animations tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, no update since January 2, 2025.
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5.0 (22) 10,000+ active installsAdds smooth transitions between navigations to your WordPress site.
Shares the animations tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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4.5 (63) 9,000+ active installsEasily assign a video background to any element on your WordPress pages or posts. Now compatible with WPBakery (Visual Composer) and SiteOrigin Page B …
Shares the WPBakery tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, no update since May 7, 2024.
Switching from Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder: common questions
What is the best alternative to Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder?
Page Transition is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 700+ active installs with a 4.5 out of 5 rating.
Which Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder alternative has the most users?
Crelly Slider, with 10,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder alternative is rated highest?
Crelly Slider, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 112 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Page Transition is the closest match to Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page Builder by the data we track, and Crelly Slider has the widest reach with 10,000+ active installs. View Transitions shipped the most recent release, on August 26, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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