CMXR — Canvas Motion Backgrounds

Canvas Motion Background Made Easy. CMXR lets you build and manage animated canvas motion backgrounds directly from the WordPress admin. Compose moving shapes — orbs, blobs, and multi-ring forms — that render on an HTML5 canvas, sit behind your page content, and are driven by a tiny vanilla-JS engine with zero frontend dependencies.

Key features:

• Visual configurator — three-panel editor with live canvas preview, shape/color/animation controls, and real-time feedback

• Drag-to-reorder layers — drag shapes in the sidebar to control which one renders on top

• Layer badges — each shape shows its layer number (1 = topmost)

• 6 animation types — Drift, Orbit, Pulse, Wave, Fixed, Figure-8 (Lissajous)

• Interactivity modes — Parallax, Repel, Attract, or Off

• Anchor point — a per-animation 3×3 anchor (top-left … bottom-right) that sets which point of the container shape positions are measured from. The px position range follows the anchor per axis: a centered axis spans ±2000px (full-4K travel from center), an edge axis ±500px

• Flexible units — size and position in %, px, vw, or vh, with values auto-converting when you switch units

• 12 shapes — Soft Orbs (Circle, Double, Triple, Blob, Outline, Ring), Geometry (Box, Box Outline, Capsule, Capsule Outline), and Lines (Line, Wave Line)

• Blend modes — Screen, Normal, Multiply, Overlay, Lighten, Hard-Light

• REST API — full programmatic control over animations

• Performance — pauses off-screen (IntersectionObserver), respects prefers-reduced-motion, DPR cap to limit canvas size on HiDPI screens

• Any theme, any builder — works with Elementor, Divi, Gutenberg, or hand-coded HTML; just add a CSS ID