A Gutenberg block to render a typing animation or typewriter effect.
As of April 2026, Typing Animation Block is a WordPress typing animation plugin with 200 active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Typing Text – Add Animated Typing….
You can use the block inside the Gutenberg editor as you would use a headline block. You can find it in the common section. You can change the text that appears in the animation in the editor (Number 1 in the screenshot). The different sentences are separated by a pipe (|). You can format the text by using <i>...</i> for italic or <b>...</b> for bold text. To change the underlying element that is used in the html of the page (h1 to h6 or span) there is a dropdown menu in the block toolbar(Number 2 in the screenshot). In the block panel you find different options to customize the speed, looping and other options of the typing (Number 3 in the screenshot). The underlying library used is Typed.js. You can find more information in the repo
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| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 5.7.15 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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