UPDATE: I have decided to remove the two typing feature from the link below. I decided that I had too many typing features on my site. You should also note that the latest version of this plugin requires version 2.0.15. So you would want to download the latest script:
There are a few different plugins available if you want to add a typing feature like the one at the top of the themes page to your WordPress site. But when you get down to brass tacks, a typing plugin doesn’t actually have to do very much. Type.js is open source software that does the heavy lifting of making the typing action happen. JSDelivr provides a fast and easy way to add Typed.js to your site. And WordPress already provides all of the interface necessary to design the output. All your plugin needs to do is synchronize the existing software.
Downloading My Plugin
Download my plugin from my github repository. Unzip it, then open the file until you find the file named big-typing-effect (all lower case). If the file name has been post fixed with anything such as “-main”, then you should delete it so that it just reads “big-typing-effect”. Go into your WordPress file directory and add the big-typing-effect folder into your plugins folder (wordpress > wp-content > plugins). Then go into your WordPress admin center (Plugins > Installed Plugins) and activate the plugin.
Now all you have to do is follow the instructions in the readme file.
If you have any questions, then feel free to post them in the comments section.
Why I haven’t tried to publish this to WordPress.org yet
It’s time peel back the mystique of plugins. A useful plugin doesn’t need to be more than a few files with a few lines each. The reason most people don’t realize this is they rarely see simple plugins. Simple plugins often aren’t worth being published into a commercial setting. A simple plugin rarely needs to be updated. But a commercial plugin is expected to be updated with every new version of WordPress, even when there is nothing to update. This can make hosting a simple plugin in a commercial venue an unnecessarily complicated venture.
Bearing all of this in mind, I may try to publish this plugin or some other version of it to WordPress.org in the future if I decide it is worth dealing with all of the overhead. But fortunately, you can download it from GitHub right now.