Sanjay Shankar

<p>The Advanced Preloader plugin adds customizable loading animations to your WordPress site, offering flexibility to match your design and branding needs.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Multiple Display Options:</p>
<ul>
<li>Choose between Image, Text, or Both</li>
<li>Four layout options: Image Over Text, Image Left to Text, Image Right to Text, Image Below Text</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Customizable Design:</p>
<ul>
<li>Background and text color customization</li>
<li>Upload your own preloader image</li>
<li>Add custom HTML text with multiple lines</li>
<li>Random text line display option</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Performance Optimization:</p>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight and fast loading</li>
<li>CSS animations for smooth performance</li>
<li>Customizable animation speed</li>
<li>Delay time configuration</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Responsive Preview:</p>
<ul>
<li>Live preview in admin panel</li>
<li>Laptop-style responsive preview window</li>
<li>Real-time updates as you customize</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Advanced Controls:</p>
<ul>
<li>Enable/disable preloader with one click</li>
<li>Media uploader integration</li>
<li>Color picker for easy color selection</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
<p>We welcome contributions from the WordPress community! If you’d like to contribute to this plugin, please visit our GitHub repository:</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/sanjuacodez/advanced-preloader" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Preloader on GitHub</a></p>
<ol>
<li>Fork the repository</li>
<li>Create a feature branch</li>
<li>Make your improvements</li>
<li>Submit a pull request</li>
</ol>
<p>Please follow WordPress coding standards and include documentation for any new features.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please:<br />
* Visit our <a href="https://github.com/sanjuacodez/advanced-preloader" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a><br />
* Open an issue on GitHub<br />
* Contact us through our website</p>
<p>Let’s make WordPress better together!</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later. This means you’re free to use, modify, and distribute this software as long as you preserve the GPL license terms.</p>
<p>Source code available on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/sanjuacodez/advanced-preloader" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/sanjuacodez/advanced-preloader</a></p>


Advanced Preloader

A customizable WordPress preloader plugin that enhances user experience with beautiful loading animations while your site content loads.

Freemius

Chris J. Zähller

<p>This plugin implements and automates Zach Leatherman’s <a href="https://github.com/zachleat/web-font-loading-recipes#the-compromise-critical-foft-with-preload-with-a-polyfill-fallback-emulating-font-display-optional" rel="nofollow ugc">“Critical FOFT with preload, with a polyfill fallback emulating font-display: optional”</a> to optimize and speed up web font loading and improve UX by minimizing Flash of Invisible Text, Flash of Unstyled Text, and DOM Reflow.</p>
<h3>Acknowledgement</h3>
<p>This plugin is based on <a href="https://github.com/hlashbrooke/WordPress-Plugin-Template" rel="nofollow ugc">Hugh Lashbrooke’s Starter Plugin</a>, a robust and GPL-licensed code template for creating a standards-compliant WordPress plugin.</p>
<h3>PRO only features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Support for 7 additional font-weights</li>
<li>Small-caps support</li>
<li>Finer-grained control of default CSS</li>
<li>Default options reset</li>
<li>Warn user of unsaved changes when navigating plugin tabs</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<h4>Video Tutorials</h4>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/0C0lDJ3T12o" rel="nofollow ugc">Episode 1. Intro and Background</a></p>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/-StFYcOSDCU" rel="nofollow ugc">Episode 2. Font Squirrel Generator (WOFF & WOFF2)</a></p>
<h4>Generating and Uploading the Font Files</h4>
<p>Upload two files for each web font: a WOFF file and a WOFF2 file. We recommend you use <a href="https://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator" rel="nofollow ugc">Font Squirrel’s Webfont Generator</a> to generate the files. Mandatory Font Squirrel settings are:</p>
<pre><code>Select “Expert”
Font Formats:       “WOFF”
                    “WOFF2”
Advanced Options:   “Font Name Suffix” = -webfont
</code></pre>
<p>For detailed recommended settings, see the plugin Upload options screen.</p>
<p><strong>Filenames must follow the proper naming convention:</strong> <code>$family</code>–<code>$variant</code>-webfont.<code>$filetype</code>.</p>
<dl>
<dt><strong>$family</strong></dt>
<dd>The font family base name without style. Case-insensitive. May contain letters, numerals, and underscores but no hyphens or spaces.</dd>
<dt><strong>$variant</strong></dt>
<dd>The font style. Can be weight, style, or a combination of both. <em>Case-sensitive</em>.</dd>
<dt><strong>-webfont</strong></dt>
<dd>Mandatory suffix. Append to $variant.</dd>
<dt><strong>$filetype</strong></dt>
<dd>The file type, i.e., “woff” or “woff2”.</dd>
</dl>
<p><strong>Example</strong>: for the bold weight italic style of Times New Roman, rename the files to timesnewroman-boldItalic-webfont.woff and timesnewroman-boldItalic-webfont.woff2.</p>
<p>Allowed weights and styles and their CSS mappings are:</p>
<ul>
<li>regular | normal (maps to 400)</li>
<li>italic (maps to 400)</li>
<li>boldItalic (maps to 700)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>For small-caps support and extended font-weight support, please upgrade to</strong> <a href="https://checkout.freemius.com/mode/dialog/plugin/4955/plan/7984/licenses/1/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>WP FOFT Loader PRO</strong></a>.</p>
<p>This plugin supports 1 – 4 font families. For example, you might have a display font for headings, a serif-font for body text, a sans-serif font for UI elements, such as navigation labels, and a monospaced font for tabular data and code examples.</p>
<h4>Subset</h4>
<p>Upload up to 4 small, subsetted fonts. For each font, upload a WOFF & WOFF2 file (for a total of up to 8 files). Each font will act as a placeholder until the full fonts load.</p>
<p><strong>Filenames must follow the proper naming convention:</strong> <code>$family</code>-optimized.<code>$filetype</code>.</p>
<dl>
<dt><strong>$family</strong></dt>
<dd>The font family base name without style. Case-insensitive. May contain letters, numerals, and underscores but no hyphens or spaces. Each $family base name should match the name used for the matching font uploaded on the previous upload screen.</dd>
<dt><strong>-optimized</strong></dt>
<dd>Mandatory suffix. Append to $family.</dd>
<dt><strong>$filetype</strong></dt>
<dd>The file type, i.e., “woff” or “woff2”.</dd>
</dl>
<p><strong>Example</strong>: If you uploaded timesnewroman-regular-webfont.woff and timesnewroman-regular-webfont.woff2 as your body font on the previous screen, name the subsetted versions timesnewroman-optimized.woff and timesnewroman-optimized.woff2 respectively.</p>
<p>To subset and encode your fonts, we recommend you use Font Squirrel’s Webfont Generator. Mandatory Font Squirrel settings are:</p>
<pre><code>Select “Expert”
Font Formats:           “WOFF”
                        “WOFF2”
Fix Missing Glyphs:     None
Subsetting:             “Custom Subsetting” with the Unicode Ranges 0065-0041-005A,0061-007A
                        Leave everything else unchecked
OpenType Features:      None
OpenType Flattening:    None
CSS:                    Leave unchecked
Advanced Options:       “Font Name Suffix” = -optimized
</code></pre>
<p>For detailed recommended settings, see the plugin Subset options screen.</p>
<h4>CSS</h4>
<p>@import rules are automatically handled by this plugin. You may manually inline your font-related CSS in the document <code><head></code> here. Place rules pertaining only to the font-family, font-weight, font-style, and font-variation properties here.</p>
<h4>Plugin CSS</h4>
<p>The plugin loads some CSS by default. You may disable it from this screen.</p>
<h4>Font Display</h4>
<p>The plugin uses <code>font-display: swap</code> by default. You can override the <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/font-display" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>font-display</code></a> property here.</p>
<h4>CSS Stage 1</h4>
<p>Declarations placed in this field will load subsetted fonts as placeholders while the full fonts load.</p>
<ul>
<li>Use only the family name followed by Subset (case-sensitive)</li>
<li>Family names must match the names you input on the “Subset” screen.</li>
<li>All declarations must start with the fonts-stage-1 class</li>
</ul>
<p>See the Documentation screen to view the Stage 1 CSS that this plugin loads by default.</p>
<p>Incorrect:</p>
<pre><code>.nav-primary { // Missing class: .fonts-stage-1
  font-family: latoSubset, sans-serif;
}

.fonts-stage-1 #footer-secondary {
  font-family: lato, san-serif; // Missing “Subset” suffix
}

.fonts-stage-1 div.callout {
  font-family: latoSubset, san-serif;
  font-size: 1rem; // “font-family,” “font-weight,” “font-style,”
                   // and “font-variant” rules only
}

.fonts-stage-1 div.callout {
  font-family: latosubset, san-serif; // “Subset” suffix is case-sensitive
}
</code></pre>
<p>Correct:</p>
<pre><code>.fonts-stage-1 .nav-primary {
  font-family: latoSubset, sans-serif;
}
</code></pre>
<h4>CSS Stage 2</h4>
<ul>
<li>Use only the family name</li>
<li>Family names must match the file names for the fonts you uploaded on the “Upload” screen.</li>
<li>Omit weights and styles from the font name</li>
<li>All declarations must start with the fonts-stage-2 class</li>
<li>For best performance, please minify your CSS before pasting it into the form.</li>
</ul>
<p>See the Documentation screen to view the Stage 2 CSS that this plugin loads by default.</p>
<p>Incorrect:</p>
<pre><code>tbody { // Missing class: .fonts-stage-2
  font-family: lato, Corbel, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
}

.fonts-stage-2 span.bolder {
  font-family: lato-bold, Corbel, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; // Don’t include style in font name.
  // Better yet, omit declaration altogether.
  font-weight: 700;
}

.fonts-stage-2 div.callout {
  font-family: lato-regular, Corbel, "Lucida Grande", san-serif;
  font-size: 1rem; // “font-family,” “font-weight,” “font-style,”
                   // and “font-variant” rules only
}
</code></pre>
<p>Correct:</p>
<pre><code>.fonts-stage-2 div.callout {
  font-family: lato, Corbel, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
}

.fonts-stage-2 div.callout {
  // No need to redeclare the font-family — all weights map to a single family name
  font-weight: 700; // This will use the lato-bold font
}
</code></pre>
<p>For best performance, please <a href="https://cssminifier.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">minify your CSS</a> before pasting it into the form.</p>
<h4>Font Stacks</h4>
<p>Change the default font fallbacks in case your custom fonts don’t load. Don’t include the names of your default custom fonts here.</p>
<h4>Further Documentation</h4>
<p>See the Documentation screen to view the CSS this plugin loads by default and to view video tutorials.</p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li>English: Default language, always included</li>
</ul>
<p>Would you like to help translate WP FOFT Loader into your own language? <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-foft-loader" rel="nofollow ugc">You can do that here!</a></p>
<h3>Dependencies</h3>
<p>This plugin includes these third-party libraries in its package.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ezyang/htmlpurifier" rel="nofollow ugc">HTMLPurifier</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Cerdic/CSSTidy" rel="nofollow ugc">CSSTidy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fontawesome.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Fontawesome</a></li>
</ul>


WP FOFT Loader

Optimize and speed up web font loading and improve UX by minimizing Flash of Invisible Text, Flash of Unstyled Text, and DOM Reflow.

Advanced Preloader vs WP FOFT Loader