Plugin info

Total downloads: 67,778
Active installs: 7,000
Total reviews: 17
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 11 language(s)
Contributors: 6
Last updated: 11/27/2025 (34 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 12/26/2016 (9 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.9
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9
Minimum PHP version: 5.6

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 34 days ago • 17 reviews

63/100

Is Reading progressbar abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 34 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 4.9
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 5.6

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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 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Review feed

Marie Comet
3/13/2020

Easy to configure and works well :)

Thanks you!
Jason Rouet
5/26/2021

Does the job perfectly

Easy to configure and quick to set up!
Reuhno
7/29/2021

Simple et efficace

Super, fait ce qu'il doit faire et il le fait bien. Merci beaucoup pour ce plugin.

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.

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 🙂