Current state
The Glopzi runtime supports five WebGL background effects. Two of them (Aurora and Dot Grid) are bundled for both WordPress and custom-site installs. The other three (Liquid Ether, Light Rays, Gradient Blinds) currently ship only with the WordPress plugin.
Note
If your site is on WordPress, you have access to all five effects out of the box. If your site uses the script-tag install (Shopify, Webflow, Next.js, etc.), you have Aurora and Dot Grid today. The rest land in a near-term release; no migration required on your end.
Liquid Ether
A flowing fluid simulation that responds to cursor movement. Drag the cursor across the element to push the fluid, paint with light, swirl colors together. Highly interactive, very visual.
Notable parameters:
- color1, color2, color3: a three-color palette the fluid blends between as it moves.
- Force injection: how strongly the cursor pushes the fluid. Higher values mean dramatic painting; lower values are gentler.
- Decay: how quickly the swirls settle. Long decays leave persistent trails.
Best suited to hero sections that invite play. Costly on GPU (it’s a real fluid sim), so use one per page and disable on mobile via breakpoint overrides.
Light Rays
Animated rays of light radiating from a point. Useful for hero backgrounds with a focal point, or for highlighting a single element with directional lighting.
Notable parameters:
- Origin point: where the rays originate from within the element.
- Color: the light’s tint.
- Intensity: how bright the rays appear.
- Spread: how wide the cone of light extends.
Subtle by default; can be pushed to dramatic. Pairs well with serif typography and editorial layouts.
Gradient Blinds
Animated horizontal or vertical bands of color that slowly shift hue and position. Reads as motion graphics rather than ambient backdrop, more direct than Aurora.
Notable parameters:
- Direction: horizontal or vertical bands.
- Band count: how many bands fill the element.
- Color stops: a configurable color ramp the bands cycle through.
- Speed: how quickly the bands shift.
Effective on splash sections, big CTAs, and anywhere you want the background to feel like a designed element rather than wallpaper.
When they come to all stacks
The same effects ship in the WordPress plugin’s runtime today. Bringing them to the script-tag install requires building separate effect bundles for the standalone runtime and hosting them on the CDN. The work is straightforward; it’s a release-cycle item, not a re-architecture.
When they ship, sites already using Glopzi via script tag get them automatically. No migration, no plugin install, no configuration change.
For status updates, the changelog (linked in the dashboard once published) tracks each effect as it becomes available.
Next steps
- Aurora: the ambient WebGL effect available everywhere today.
- Dot Grid: the cursor-reactive Canvas 2D effect available everywhere today.
- WordPress integration: install the plugin and access all five effects.