A lightweight, smooth reading progress bar that shows users how far they have scrolled through a page or post.
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Add a beautiful reading progress bar to your WordPress site. Show reading time, track scroll progress, and celebrate readers when they finish your art …
Catch Scroll Progress Bar is a simple, super-light WordPress progress bar plugin to sow the scrolled progress.
A lightweight and simple reading progress bar that shows visitors how far they have scrolled through your page.
Display a customizable reading progress bar and reading time with an optional floating widget. Lightweight, responsive, and built without jQuery.
Light weight fully customizable reading progress bar. Sticks to top, bottom or sticky menu, with fallback for small screens. Includes ert (beta).
A lightweight toolkit of small, toggleable site features: scroll to top button, reading progress bar, reading time and a custom scroll bar.
ZenRead is a lightweight and secure plugin that adds a sleek reading progress bar and an estimated reading time indicator to your WordPress posts.
Add reading position indicator on page top.
Remembers reading position and auto-scrolls when returning. Works for guests (localStorage) and logged-in users (custom DB table, per device).