Ivan Maljukanović

Complement your branding efforts by enabling a loading screen progress bar (with percentage text) on your website, that features the logo/image of your choosing.
Key Features: 
* Possibility to set the number of loading screen options your website needs (either one for the entire website, or two different ones – first for the homepage, second for all of the other pages). 
* Select the logo image that will be used on the loading sccreen (from the existing uploads, or by uploading a new one). 
* Select the background color for the loading screen. 
* Select the color of progress bar and percentage text.
<h3>Copyright</h3>
Loading Screen by Imoptimal, Copyright 2020 Ivan Maljukanovic 
Loading Screen by Imoptimal is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
along with this program. If not, see <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html/</a>
<h3>Resources</h3>
<ul>
<li>jscolor.js 2.0.5, GPLv3 – available @ http://jscolor.com/</li>
<li>imoptimal-logo-white.png © 2020 Ivan Maljukanović, CC0 – made by me, not available online apart from the plugins directory /img, and my personal website @ https://imoptimal.com (used as an asset)</li>
<li>banner-772×250.png © 2020 Ivan Maljukanović, CC0 – made by me, not available online apart from the plugins official wordpress.org repository (used as an asset)</li>
<li>icon-256×256.png © 2020 Ivan Maljukanović, CC0 – made by me, not available online apart from the plugins official wordpress.org repository (used as an asset)</li>
</ul>
Resources used in the plugins last screenshot (number 5): 
* Photo of my cat Mizza © 2010 Swanheart, CC0 – made for me on my request; given to me free of charge; not available online

Loading Screen by Imoptimal

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