“Animated Text Add-on for Visual Composer” Documentation by “Hitesh Khunt” v1.0


“Animated Text Add-on for Visual Composer”

Created: 02/02/2015
By: Hitesh Khunt
Email: khunthitesh32@gmail.com

Thank you for purchasing my wordpress plugin. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email via my user page contact form here. Thanks so much!


Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Main Features
  3. Installation guide
  4. Getting started
  5. Sources and Credits

A) Introduction - top

Simply include textillate.js and it's dependencies in your project to start creating unqiue effects.

Everyone can use , because it’s fully automatic, and it’s compatible with all recent versions of wordpress!


B) Main Features - top


C) Installation guide - top

This part of the documentation is going to cover, in a step by step instruction the installation of WP Plugins on your WordPress blog in general.

  • Step 1. The most important task is to make certain you have an upto date backup of your blog! This is always a good thing, not necessarily so important for our plugin but in general.
  • Step 2. Log into your WordPress Admin area.
  • Step 3. Look down the left hand column for "Plugins" and then click on the word "Plugins".
  • Step 4. Just to the right of the title “(Manage) Plugins” in the image above, you can see a button marked "Add New", click this button.
Plugin Upload
  • Step 5. The image above shows the option to upload the plugin from your own PC, this is the vc-animated-text.zip inside the zip you had previously downloaded from CodeCanyon. Install the zip and click on "Activate Plugin".

Plugin activation

Installibg by FTP

First, you need a tool for uploading plugin files to your site, you can use filemanager from cPanel or any FTP clients. Some good FTP clients :

Also WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here.


D) Getting started - top

The simple activation of the plugin is enough to have the desired behavior for all pages.

Animated Text Visual Composer Setting

General Settings

Setting TitleDescriptionDefaultPossible Values
Select TypeSelect Animated Text type.Singal Sentence or wordSingal Sentence or word | Sentence List
IDUnique ID that will be used in the custom css.Enter your numeric ID
Enter TextEnter Animated Text Words.If you select type Sentence List write each sentence in a "|" seprate.Enter any sentence.

In Effect Settings

Setting TitleDescriptionDefaultPossible Values
EffectSelect Animated Text In Effect.flash
SequenceSelect Animated Text in sequence.Sequence
Delay ScaleSet the delay factor applied to each consecutive character.1.5Enter delay scale in integer value.
DelaySet the delay between each character - in milliseconds.50Enter any integer value in milliseconds.
Callback Incallback that executes once the 'in' animation has finished. Example:alert('in animation end.');javascript code callback that executes once the 'in' animation has finished.

Out Effect Settings

Setting TitleDescriptionDefaultPossible Values
EffectSelect Animated Text Out Effect.flash
SequenceSelect Animated Text out sequence.Sequence
Delay ScaleSet the delay factor applied to each consecutive character.1.5Enter delay scale in integer value.
DelaySet the delay between each character - in milliseconds.50Enter any integer value in milliseconds.
Callback Outcallback that executes once the 'out' animation has finished. Example:alert('out animation end.');javascript code callback that executes once the 'out' animation has finished.

General Option Settings

Setting TitleDescriptionDefaultPossible Values
LoopEnable text animation looping.NoNo | Yes
Min Display TimeSet the minimum display time for each text before it is replaced - in milliseconds(Sentence List only).2000minimum display time for each text before it is replaced
Initial Delaysets the initial delay before starting the animation - in miliseconds.0Enter initial delay scale in integer value.
Auto Startset whether or not to automatically start animating.YesYes | No
Typeset the type of token to animate.CharChar | Word
Viewport Checkershows the animation only when the text is visible on the screen.YesYes | No
Custom CSS Styleuse to change the color (and/or other propery) of a sentence, word or character.
Color Examples:(#vc-animate-text-{ID})
//Change the color of the whole sentence
#vc-animate-text-{ID}{ color: #ff0000;}
//Change the color of the second word
#vc-animate-text-{ID} .word2{ color: #ff0000;}
//change the color of the third character of the third word
#vc-animate-text-{ID} .word3 .char3{ color: #ff0000;}
//change the color of all first character
#vc-animate-text-{ID} .char1{ color: #ff0000;}
Enter your custome css here.

Fit Text - Responsive Feature Setting

Setting TitleDescriptionDefaultPossible Values
CompressorDecimal number. From 0.1 to 5.01.0From 0.1 to 5.0
Min. Font Sizevalue in pixels. it is not necessary to put the "px".14Enter responsive minimum text font size
Max. Font Sizevalue in pixels. it is not necessary to put the "px".22Enter responsive maximum text font size

E) Sources and Credits - top

I've used the following css files as listed.


Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this wordpress plugin. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this plugin. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the plugin on codecanyon, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "support" section.

Hitesh Khunt

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