Description
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 :
- Jean-Baptiste Audras, project manager at Whodunit and WordPress developer. @audrasjb on Twitter or Github.
Screenshots
Plugin option page. 
Reading Progressbar in custom fixed position on Twenty Seventeen Theme.
Installation
- Install the plugin and activate.
- Go to Settings > Reading Progressbar to manage plugin’s options.
FAQ
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Does it works on WordPress network/multisite?
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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.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Reading progressbar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Reading progressbar” has been translated into 9 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Interested in development?
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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 🙂