Reference

Glopzi glossary.

Every term used across the editor and the rest of these docs, written in plain language. If something is unclear elsewhere, this is the page to consult first.

A

Alias

A human-readable label you give to an element, so the sidebar shows "Hero button" instead of an unreadable CSS selector. The real selector keeps working underneath. See Naming targets with aliases.

Animation type

What kind of motion an animation is. Glopzi has three: Time (runs on load, click, hover, or when in view), Scroll (follows the visitor’s scroll position), and WebGL background (animated background effects like Aurora or Dot Grid).

B

Breakpoint

A screen-size threshold. Glopzi has three: desktop, tablet, and mobile. You can override animation values per breakpoint without duplicating the animation. See Responsive breakpoint overrides.

C

Checkpoint

A keyframe in time. Each checkpoint declares where the element should be at that moment (its opacity, position, scale, color and so on). Glopzi interpolates between checkpoints to produce motion. Time animations have private checkpoints; scroll animations use shared scroll checkpoints.

D

Domain

A website your Glopzi license is allowed to run on (for example, example.com). The first time your license is used on a domain, Glopzi binds it automatically. You can manage bound domains from the dashboard. See Adding and managing domains.

E

Editor

The web app at studio.glopzi.com where you design animations. It loads your real site inside a frame so you see motion applied to real content while you edit.

Edit mode

The state your site is in while the editor is open against it. Triggered by a query parameter ( ?glopzi-edit=1) on custom sites, or by the Edit with Glopzi admin bar button on WordPress. Visitors never see edit mode.

G

Group

A bundle of time animations that share one timeline and playhead. Useful when you want several elements to choreograph together (for example, a heading and a button that come in after each other). See Grouping animations.

L

License key

The 24-character key (formatted as GLPZ-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX) that identifies your subscription. Pasted into the WordPress plugin or used implicitly by the dashboard for custom sites. See License keys.

Loop

A time animation option: how many times the motion repeats. Off by default; can be set to a specific number or to infinite. Pairs well with yoyo if you want the motion to bounce back and forth.

M

Marker

A scroll position you place on the page, used as a reference for scroll animations. Markers can be anchored to a specific element (so they move when your layout reflows) or set at an absolute Y coordinate. Internally, scroll checkpoints are markers. See Anchored vs absolute markers.

P

Picker

The mode you enter when you click "Pick element to animate". Hovering highlights what the editor would select; clicking confirms. The picker prefers semantic anchors and skips framework noise (Elementor wrappers, WordPress helpers, etc.). See Picking an element.

Property

One of the visual attributes of an element you can animate: opacity, translate X/Y, scale, rotate, blur, color, and so on. Each property gets its own values at each checkpoint. See Properties reference.

S

Save-gate

Glopzi’s policy that protects your work: if your subscription lapses, animations you already published keep running for your visitors. You just can’t save new changes until you reactivate. We never silently disable work you paid for.

Scrub

How tightly a scroll animation follows the scroll position. A higher scrub value lags the motion behind the scroll for a smoother feel; lower (or zero) makes it react instantly.

Site

One website connected to Glopzi. Your plan determines how many sites you can connect at once (Starter: 1, Pro: 5, Agency: larger). Each site has its own bundle and animations.

Split text

A modifier for text animations. Instead of animating the whole heading at once, Glopzi can split it into words, characters or lines and animate them with a stagger. Available on both Time and Scroll animations. See Animating text (split text).

Stagger

The delay between each piece of a multi-part animation. With split text, stagger spaces out the letters or words; with multiple targets, it spaces out when each one starts.

T

Target

The element on your page that an animation acts on. An animation can have one or several targets, each identified by a CSS selector (and optionally a stable Glopzi-issued ID for extra resilience). See Stable targeting.

Trigger

What causes a Time animation to start. Options are: in view (default), load, click, or hover. Scroll animations don’t use triggers; they’re tied to scroll position via markers instead.

W

Watermark

A small "Animated by Glopzi" badge that appears on the page if your subscription has expired. It’s how Glopzi keeps your published work alive (per the save-gate policy) without giving the full paid experience away.

WebGL background

An animated visual effect attached to an element as a background: Aurora, Dot Grid, and others. Rendered with WebGL (or Canvas 2D for simpler effects), runs on GPU, lazy-loaded so pages without WebGL effects don’t pay the cost. See WebGL backgrounds.

Y

Yoyo

A loop modifier for Time animations: instead of restarting at the beginning each cycle, the motion plays forward then in reverse, like a pendulum.