Pratik Shrestha

Sakin Shrestha

Catch Plugins

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Mahesh Maharjan

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Catch Scroll Progress Bar is a simple yet handy WordPress plugin that provides a visual representation of how much of a blog post remains. It is absolutely free of cost. As your reader scrolls down your web page, the progress bar begins to fill, indicating how much progress they’ve made. The plugin comes with an array of customization features like choosing the position, background colors, opacity level, height, border radius, and more. With Catch Scroll Progress Bar, you can choose your reading progress bar to display them either at the top or bottom of your website. You can choose the background and foreground colors and select their display opacity as well. Most importantly, Catch Scroll Progress Bar empowers you with the conditions as to where your progress bar would be displayed—front page, blog page, or posts/pages. With all these essential features integrated into the plugin, Catch Scroll Progress Bar sure is a perfect pick for displaying a simple yet elegant reading progress bar.

Catch Scroll Progress Bar


The plugin serve it purpose very well. have great customizations


Nice Plugin

Catch Scroll Progress Bar is a simple, super-light WordPress progress bar plugin to sow the scrolled progress.

Brainstorm Force

People often skip reading posts with the fear of the time they’ll spend reading it. Are you losing readers too?
The Read Meter plugin displays the estimated reading time for blog posts along with a progress bar. It works great to give visitors a quick idea about the time needed to read a post and encourages them to go on till the end.
Usually, visitors try to scan the entire post at first glance and grasp as much as information possible from the post. Reading time specified in minutes motivates users to read the post.
A handy progress bar will show the reader’s position on the post. As the reader scrolls the page, the progress bar indicates the remaining part of the post. This lets readers know how far have they reached and how much more do they have to go on.
<a href="https://bsf.io/read-meter-demo" rel="nofollow ugc">Try it out on a free dummy site</a>
The plugin uses an advanced image time calculation technique. In case your post contains images, the plugin calculates the time to view those images as well. It adds 12 seconds for the first image, 11 seconds for the second image and so on till the 10th image. After that, it adds 3 seconds for each further image.
It works great to give visitors a quick idea about the time needed to read a post and encourages them to go on till the end.
Here are some key features of the plugin –
<ul>
<li>A simple shortcode – <code>[read_meter]</code>, gives you the flexibility to add read time anywhere on the site.</li>
<li>A simple ID attribute to the shortcode can display reading time of that particular post/page irrespective of where the shortcode is added – <code>[read_meter id=47]</code>.</li>
<li>Even if the post is updated multiple times, the plugin will calculate the read time for the most recent version of the post.</li>
<li>You can choose to display the read time and a progress bar on various post types.</li>
<li>You can decide whether you would like to include images and comments in the read time and progress bar.</li>
</ul>
That’s not all! Here are some more controls you get over Reading Time –
<ul>
<li>Display the read time on a blog/archive page or single post page</li>
<li>Show the estimated time it takes to read any blog/archive page or single post page, which can be displayed on any section of the website</li>
<li>Set the read time position – i.e. Above/Below title or above content</li>
<li>Set a read time Prefix and Postfix</li>
<li>Use various read time styling options – Spacing, Background color, Font size, etc.</li>
</ul>
Specific controls for Progress Bar –
<ul>
<li>Set a progress bar position – i.e. Top/ Bottom of the page.</li>
<li>Use various progress bar styling options – Gradient Background color, Bar thickness, etc.</li>
</ul>

Read Meter – Reading Time & Progress Bar

The plugin does what it says and works excellently. I like the included styling options and it's easy to customise further with CSS as needed.

Excellent

Perfect for purpose. I just added a bit a margin below to separate it better from the start of the text and presto! It just works. Thanks!

Nice and easy

The Read Meter plugin displays the estimated reading time for blog posts along with a progress bar.

Catch Scroll Progress Bar vs Read Meter – Reading Time & Progress Bar