LottieFiles – Lottie block for Gutenberg
LottieFiles – Lottie block for Gutenberg
Description
LottieFiles for WordPress gives you access to over 50k free and ready to use Lottie animations that you can easily embed on your website. Adding animations is quick and simple: simply drag and drop the animation of your choice anywhere in your page and post and make your site stand out, no coding or design skills needed. Bring your content to life and explain your product and service in a more exciting way to your users!
Features
- Transform your website into animated web experiences using the Gutenberg Editor
- Search and access over 50,000 free and ready to use Lottie animations
- Access to your Private files from LottieFiles
- Drag & drop a Lottie JSON file
- Insert a Lottie animation from URL
- Save and re-use animation data JSON files through the WordPress Media Library
- Customize your Lottie, everything is configurable directly within the the Gutenberg Editor, through the block’s controls
- Includes customization options, allowing you to customize:
- Background color of the animation
- The speed of the animation
- Play on page load, click, scroll or mouse over
- Loop the animation or play once
- Play the animation in reverse
- The dimensions (width and max width) with responsive controls
- Share your LottieFiles account with other users
3.0.0
Minor Changes
- Fixes breaking changes in Gutenberg
2.9.0
Minor Changes
- Dependencies update and BugSnap implementation
2.8.0
Minor Changes
- Fix for Lottie block throwing block validation error
2.7.0
Minor Changes
- fix for LottieFiles WP plugin’s CSS affects other input elements in the WP Block Editor
2.6.0
Minor Changes
- fix for plugin affecting UI of other wordpress pages
2.5.0
Minor Changes
- dotLottie support refactor
- interactivity bugs fixed
- CDN enable for new users error solved
2.4.0
Minor Changes
- New feature to give an option for the user to use the CDN or use local player
- Fix for animation play on hover, click and scroll
- Search feature gate removed on workspaces
2.3.0
Minor Changes
- Fixes for lottie player size on safari browser
2.2.0
Minor Changes
- Fixes for pagination, search and interactivity
2.1.0
Minor Changes
- Fixes for Gutenberg plugin compatibility and sidebar UI enhancements
2.0.0
Major Changes
- Major workflow update
1.1.0
Minor Changes
- Fixed Block Movement/ Drag & Drop issue
- fixed Import from media library
1.0.5
Patch Changes
- UI fixes, copy fixes
1.0.4
Patch Changes
- Hit counter fix
- Interactivity scroll fix
- CSS Namespace population fix
- Only load CSS where relevant
1.0.3
Patch Changes
- Upload JSON fixes
1.0.2
Patch Changes
- Update common php function names to be unique to avoid namespace clashes
1.0.1
Patch Changes
- Documentation updates for readme and dev readme
- Updates for WordPress SVN listing
1.0.0
Major Changes
- First stable release
Installation
Automatic installation
Automatic installation is the easiest option — WordPress will handle the file transfer, and you won’t need to leave your web browser.
- Log in to your WordPress dashboard
- Navigate to the “Plugins” menu
- Search for “LottieFiles”
- Click “Install Now” and WordPress will take it from there
- Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress
Manual installation
- Upload the entire
lottiefilesfolder to thewp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress
After activation
- Go to the WordPress Block/Gutenberg Editor
- Search For **Lottie **
- Click on the Lottie to add the block
Faq
Lottie is a JSON-based animation file format that enables designers to ship animations on any platform as easily as shipping static assets. They are small files that work on any device and can scale up or down without pixelation.
The plugin currently does not support Elementor
If you have spotted any bugs, or would like to request additional features from the plugin, please file an issue.
Reviews
Bloated and WILL slow down your site.
By brentcredle on November 19, 2025
I was using this plug-in for a year until I started looking into why I was getting low website speed scores.
This plug-in is horribly bloated, wow! I had C and D scores on GTMetrix due to browser render-blocking due to heavy file sizes and JS. I replaced it with the Lottie Player from bPlugins and immediately got A.
Replacing the plug-in brought the file size on an HTML page I used for comparison down from 2.3 MB to 190 KB.
Make your own tests and decide for yourself or know that I already did it for you, and look elsewhere for a better plug-in.
Not working with WP 6.8.1
By pepe80 on September 1, 2025
The plugin has not been updated for many months. I see the following error in the block editor (developer console), even if I don't use the Lottie block:
Uncaught (in promise) NotSupportedError: Failed to execute 'define' on 'CustomElementRegistry': the name "lottie-player" has already been used with this registry
Critical Error. Not working!
By Seba086 on May 23, 2025
Critical Error. Not working!
Very poor admin optimization
By Lovro Hrust (lovor) on February 10, 2025
It injects whole tailwind css with 29.628 css rules in the admin!
For those who understand this, it is nothing more to say.
Critical error after initial setup
By Jonathan Jernigan (apexws) on July 9, 2024
Added the block to my site and after I saved the page, it resulting in a critical error on the page. I removed the plugin and deleted the block from the page manually and it still would not load the page.
Had to go find the revisions of the home page manually inside the database, delete those, and then my home page was accessible again.
Sad because this has all the features I need, but doesn't work reliably. This is not the first time I've run into critical errors with this plugin
Critical Site Error
By lorenzobvp on July 3, 2024
Plugin doesn't work and shows critical site error
Broke my site
By oscarbg on May 6, 2024
Critical error. This plugin broke my site
Ломается админка
By ANDREI BOTS (andreibots) on January 30, 2024
Плагин ломает админку блоки сливаются разделы и заголовки становятся как одно!
Installed the plugin and got critical error in the site
By pdropt on January 16, 2024
What is said in the title.
Now, excuse me, but I have to put the fire out.
Works!
By spencermcc on July 20, 2023
Lottie is neat!
Plugin works as advertised! Didn't face the issues other reported.


