About this plugin
Mixer Dynamic Cursor replaces the system pointer with an animated cursor that follows the mouse and reacts to what it hovers. Everything is set from one page in the dashboard, with a live preview.
24 cursor styles, each with one to three colours: Metaball, Dot, Invert, Glow, Comet, Trail, Crosshair, Magnet, Jelly, Lens, Pixel, Neon, Sparkles, Beam, Amoeba, Radar, Caret, Eclipse, Orbit, Brush, Autofocus, Glitch, Heart, Confetti.
Blend modes, named and grouped like in Photoshop: Normal, Darken, Multiply, Color Burn, Lighten, Screen, Color Dodge, Overlay, Soft Light, Hard Light, Difference, Exclusion, Hue, Saturation, Color, Luminosity. Invert always uses Difference.
Three hover actions, each in three modes (Ring, Icon, Text):
- Button: buttons and links, tabs, ARIA interactive roles, form submit controls.
- Carousel: Elementor (free and Pro), Swiper, Flickity, Slick, Owl, Splide, Glide, Tiny Slider, Keen, Embla, Smart Slider, MetaSlider, Soliloquy, Slider Revolution, and in general any container that scrolls horizontally. Carousels that cannot be dragged keep the normal cursor.
- External link: links with target="_blank" or rel="external".
Other features
- Icons from the media library (SVG or PNG with transparency). Without an icon, the bundled 45° arrow is used.
- Font: the site font, a Google Font, or Adobe Fonts (Typekit project ID, validated from the dashboard).
- Outline colour and width, text size, case and weight for the actions.
- Extra CSS selectors for buttons, carousels and “system cursor” areas.
- Per-element overrides: data-cursor="button|carousel|external|native" and data-cursor-text="Drag".
- Mouse and trackpad only: on touch devices nothing is loaded. With “reduce motion” enabled, ambient animations and trails are turned off.
- Not loaded in the Elementor editor and preview, in feeds, REST and AJAX requests.
- A dynamic_cursor_should_load filter to switch the cursor off on specific pages.
External services
Mixer Dynamic Cursor works without contacting any external service. Two optional font sources, chosen by the administrator in the dashboard, load files from third-party servers:
com. Visitors’ browsers connect to Google servers, which receive their IP address. Service: Google Fonts — Google Privacy Policy — Google Fonts FAQ on privacy.
net with the project ID you entered, and visitors’ browsers connect to Adobe servers. css once to read the available font families. No other data is sent.
Service: Adobe Fonts — Adobe Terms of Use — Adobe Privacy Policy.
With the default “Site font” option, no external request is made.