Ultimate Cursor Pro

Ultimate Cursor adds custom cursor styles and animated backgrounds to WordPress sites. The free add-on includes five cursor types, 113 icons, five geometric shapes, eight animated cursor effects, and Antigravity and Light Pillar backgrounds. Ultimate Cursor Pro is a separate add-on for websites that need more ways to control cursor behavior, placement, and animation.

Set up effects in the dashboard and review them in the live preview before saving. Basic setup requires no code or CSS. The extension works with properly coded WordPress themes and pages built with Elementor, Gutenberg, WPBakery, and Divi.

Choose how the cursor responds

Interactive Hover lets a cursor react to links, buttons, and form fields. It can grow, change color, glow, move toward the center of an element, or display a contextual label such as “Open,” “Play,” or “Type.” Blend modes and custom CSS selectors let you adjust the hover treatment.

Pro also adds Circular Text, which displays text around the cursor as a rotating badge, and hotspot positioning for picture and icon cursors. The hotspot sets which point of an image or icon aligns with the mouse position.

Set cursor styles and where they appear

Use multiple cursor configurations with their own styles and targeting rules. A configuration can apply to selected pages, CSS selectors, or HTML components. The free plugin has one cursor configuration for the whole site.

Pro adds 20 geometric shapes, bringing the total to 25. Options include Blob, Squircle, Sparkle, Seal Badge, Octagon, Pin, Play, Asterisk, and Shield. Pro also unlocks options for each of the eight animated effects, including controls for characters, colors, size, particle count, speed, and other effect-specific details.

Adjust backgrounds

The free plugin includes Antigravity floating particles and the Light Pillar glowing vertical light effect. Pro adds motion controls for Antigravity, including field strength, wave, pulse, and rotation. Light Pillar controls include intensity, glow, noise, mouse interaction, blend mode, and quality.

Choose background position, stacking order, and opacity, then target backgrounds to selected pages or CSS selectors. Multiple background configurations can execute at the same time. Cursor and background effects can be combined.

Configure and preview

Open Ultimate Cursor in the WordPress dashboard, select a cursor or background effect, adjust its settings in the live preview, set any Pro targeting or controls, and save. Custom cursors are hidden on touch devices, while backgrounds remain responsive across screen sizes. Cursor and hover animations respect reduced-motion preferences, and background scripts are not downloaded for visitors who prefer reduced motion.

Scripts load only for enabled effects, and visitors do not download effect files their configuration does not use. Pro includes priority support and a 14-day money-back guarantee.