Reading progressbar

January 14, 2024

Reading progressbar Plugin

A reading position indicator that you can use where you want: top, bottom or custom position in differents templates or post types.

Get a reading position indicator as a progress bar and show it where you want: top, bottom or custom position in differents templates or post types.

Very lightweight, it uses <progress> HTML5 element and few lines of javascript.

Options:

  • Progress bar’s height
  • Foreground color
  • Background color
  • Position (top, bottom, custom)
  • Class/ID of HTML element to fix the bar (if custom position selected)
  • Page templates
  • Post types (natives or custom)

Credits :

Installation

  1. Install the plugin and activate.
  2. Go to Settings > Reading Progressbar to manage plugin’s options.

Screenshots

  1. Plugin option page.

    Plugin option page.

  2. Reading Progressbar in custom fixed position on Twenty Seventeen Theme.

    Reading Progressbar in custom fixed position on Twenty Seventeen Theme.

FAQ

Does it works on WordPress network/multisite?

Sorry but this plugin doesn’t supports network/multisite installation in it’s free/public version.
It will be fixed on version 2.0. Contact me if you want to help or ask for more informations.

Changelog

1.3

  • Performance enhancement for better support for Google Core Web Vitals: enqueue stylesheets and scripts only when necessary.

1.2.3

  • Fixed a jQuery error and adding WP 5.7 compatibility. Props @maxpertici.

1.2.2

  • Removed an unwanted console.log.

1.2.1

  • Gutenberg and WordPress 5.0/5.1 compatibility. Works fine.

1.2

  • Add german translation and fixed a JS bug while loading the progressbar value. We need to load the whole page before display the bar 🙂

1.1

  • i18n ready.

1.0

  • Plugin initial commit. Works fine 🙂

Details

  • Version: 1.3
  • Active installations: 8,000
  • WordPress Version: 4.9
  • Tested up to: 6.4.5
  • PHP Version: 5.6

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