Catch Scroll Progress Bar

Description

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.

Screenshots

  • Main page

Installation

via FTP
The easy way (via Dashboard) :

  • Go to Plugins > Add New
  • Type in the Catch Scroll Progress Bar in Search Plugins box
  • Click Install Now to install the plugin
  • After Installation click activate to start using the Catch Scroll Progress Bar
  • Go to Catch Scroll Progress Bar from Dashboard menu

Not so easy way (via FTP) :

  • Download the Catch Scroll Progress Bar
  • Unarchive Catch Scroll Progress Bar plugin
  • Copy folder with catch-scroll-progress-bar.zip
  • Open the ftp \wp-content\plugins\
  • Paste the plug-ins folder in the folder
  • Go to admin panel => open item “Plugins” => activate Catch Scroll Progress Bar
  • Go to Catch Scroll Progress Bar from Dashboard menu

Reviews

3. apr. 2023
I think this plugin may need an update. When we installed it on our staging site it just showed a full bar above the header.
19. apr. 2022
Just works, fast, customizable and light!
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Contributors & Developers

“Catch Scroll Progress Bar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.6.5 (Released: April 16, 2024)

  • Compatibility check up to version 6.5

1.6.4 (Released: November 15, 2023)

  • Compatibility check up to version 6.4

1.6.3 (Released: November 16, 2022)

  • Compatibility check up to version 6.1

1.6.2 (Released: February 25, 2022)

  • Added: Credit given to origin plugin for the idea (Reported By: audrasjb)
  • Bug Fixed: Nonce check completely bypassed (Reported By: ov3fly)
  • Bug Fixed: Progress bar HTML appending from JS now moved to footer (Reported By: ov3fly)

1.6.1 (Released: February 24, 2022)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.9

1.6 (Released: September 16, 2021)

  • Bug Fixed: Security issue on ajax calls

1.5 (Released: August 05, 2021)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.8

1.4 (Released: Aug 19, 2020)

  • Bug Fixed: Issue in add new theme page

1.3 (Released: March 13, 2020)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.4

1.2 (Released: November 12, 2019)

  • Compatibility check up to version 5.3

1.1 (Released: August 20, 2019)

  • Added: Option to turn off Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs
  • Added: Tooltip for info icons
  • Added: Action link to settings page
  • Bug fixed for single page post type
  • Compatibility check up to version 5.2
  • Updated: Catch Themes and Catch Plugins tabs displaying code

1.0.0 (Released: March 25, 2019)

  • Initial Release