Add gradient text to WordPress

Fill a whole heading with a two or three color gradient, keep it flowing, or let the words color in one after another as the page scrolls.

Type

An upgrade to Heading and Paragraph

Find it

Heading settings, Text effect

Phones

Identical, nothing depends on hover

Speed

The words are never hidden while they load

What you can change

The settings worth knowing.

Three effects, one per block.

Bright idea

Gradient

A still gradient

Two or three palette colors running through the letters, at any angle.

Sunset

Animated gradient

A flowing gradient

The colors slide through the letters, one full cycle every 1 to 30 seconds.

Each word here warms up in turn as this line climbs your screen.

Grey to Colour (on scroll)

Color in as you scroll

Words go from faint to full color one after another as the block rises up the screen.

Glow

Linear

Glow

Conic

Type

Linear or conic

Linear runs in a straight line, conic sweeps around a center point.

How to add it

Three steps. No new tool.

1

Install Grinner free

It’s on WordPress.org. Or go to Plugins, Add New, and search for Grinner Blocks.

2

Select a heading

Pick the Heading or Paragraph you want to fill.

3

Choose the effect

Set Text effect to Gradient or Animated gradient and pick your colors, or turn on Grey to Colour, then publish.

Good to know

Fair questions.

Text effects are a Grinner upgrade to the Heading and Paragraph blocks. They fill text with a two or three color gradient, keep that gradient flowing, or color the words in one after another as the page scrolls. Use them for a heading that needs to stand out.

Not in this version. For movement, use a linear animated gradient.

With a gradient, yes. Grey to Colour uses the block’s one animation slot, so it can’t share a block with a text entrance.

Gradient text falls back to a solid color and Grey to Colour shows full color, so the words always read.

The gradient holds still, and Grey to Colour shows full color from the start.

Pairs well with

Try it with these.

Headings that type, decrypt, reveal or arrive word by word.

Highlight words with a marker, underline, circle or serif italic, saved once for the whole site.

Numbers that count up or shuffle into place as they scroll into view.

Grinner grinning

Go make something
beautiful.

Free on WordPress.org · No Pro version