Create stunning image hover effects with animated captions and overlays. Fully responsive, lightweight, and easy to use.
As of April 2026, Image Hover Effects is a WordPress hover caption plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 42 reviews. It has been downloaded 141K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Downloads are down 11% this week.
Image Hover Effects – WordPress Plugin helps you display beautiful hover animations on your images with stylish captions and overlays. Perfect for portfolios, galleries, team sections, and product showcases.
Simply upload your image, choose an effect, and you’re ready to go. The plugin is fully responsive, mobile-friendly, and built using fast-loading CSS animations.
No bloated code. No complex setup. Just clean visuals that make your images interactive and professional.
I purchased the plugin, unfortunately, you can’t save the changes you have made. Even when you try to find support, you will never find it! I have lost my money
I used the paid pro version of the plugin.
Using the plugin delayed the loading times of the website considerably.
After an update i could no longer configure the Image Hover Effects Pro plug-in because the configuration page in the WordPress dashboard was no longer loaded. Only the loading symbol is displayed, I can no longer make any changes. Deactivating other plugins (for example the caching plugin) and also deactivating and reactivating Image Hover Effects Pro did not have any success.
The answer to my inquiry came several days later – far too long for a commercial product used on a customer website.
Sadly, the plugin makes the loading of my pages very slow and on the tablet often the pages dont load at all.
I have bought the pro version but getting service took so many steps that i take my loss and i will use an other plugin.
Labib Ahmed, you helped me a lot! Really thanks for the support! Image Hover Effects Pro is a professionally designed plugin by a Professional!
I had some initial issues but developer helped me a lot
Thank you for your attention Labib!
Tive alguns problemas iniciais mas desenvolvedor me ajudou muito
Obrigado pela atenção Labib !
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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