Thanks to a video by Jamie Marshland I learnt of a new, simple and elegant plugin that installs effortlessly and equips your site with transitions that are little short of spectacular.
The plugin is called View Transitions—listed as Transiciones de Vista once you install it on a Spanish‑language WordPress—and it lives up completely to its promise: “Adds smooth transitions when browsing your WordPress site”.
It was developed by Google engineer Felix Arntz, well known for his work on the WordPress performance team and now also on the AI team. Google allows him to devote 30 hours a week to WordPress core, presumably to boost a performance that ultimately saves millions for Google itself by improving the response of the internet’s default CMS. Felix is also behind Google’s popular Site Kit plugin for WordPress.
With this new plugin, page‑to‑page loads are now considerably smoother and more striking. The plugin was swiftly installed on CMS MAG and you can already enjoy it while browsing these pages. The default configuration is spot‑on—there is no need to tweak anything—although it is advisable to enable it for the backend as well.
These view transitions work flawlessly in most modern browsers and, should compatibility be lacking, users should encounter no adverse effects while the plugin is active. They will simply experience the traditional page‑loading behaviour without animations.
At present, the plugin could not be enjoying better ratings.
* Original article written in Spanish, translated with chatGPT and reviewed in English by Jorge Mediavilla.
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