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AKAVA ScrollTop – Back to Top, Reading Progress & Smart Positioning

Free WordPress back-to-top button with reading progress, smart collision detection for chat widgets, accessibility and RTL support.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.0
Current version1.1.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.0
Minimum stackWP 6.3 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update17 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installations30Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org ratingNo WordPress.org ratings yet
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records AKAVA ScrollTop – Back to Top, Reading Progress & Smart Positioning version 1.1.0 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.0.

Overview

About this plugin

Does your back-to-top button hide your chat widget? AKAVA ScrollTop is the solution.

AKAVA ScrollTop adds a beautiful, customizable back-to-top button to WordPress sites. Unlike other plugins, it automatically detects and avoids floating widgets such as chat systems, cookie consent banners, and email signup forms. Perfect for long articles, publishers, e-learning sites, and blogs.

Why Choose AKAVA ScrollTop

Improved engagement through reading progress bar that shows how much content remains, reducing bounce rates.

Never covers widgets thanks to SmartDock, which automatically avoids floating chat, cookies, and email forms.

User-friendly design that works perfectly right out of the box without requiring any coding.

Accessibility first with WCAG compliance, keyboard support, and reduced-motion awareness.

Lightning fast performance using vanilla JavaScript with no jQuery, no tracking, and no external requests.

Responsive design with different sizes and positions for mobile, tablet, and desktop devices.

Key Features

  • Back to Top Button – Smoothly return to top of long pages with accessible semantics
  • Reading Progress – Visual indicator showing how much content the visitor has read
  • ReturnPoint – Optionally return to exact reading position using memory-only storage
  • SmartDock – Automatically move around visible chat buttons, cookie banners, and sticky controls
  • Responsive profiles – Set independent position, size and offsets for each device
  • RTL support – Perfect for Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and other right-to-left languages
  • Accessibility – Real button semantics, keyboard support, high-contrast handling
  • Design styles – Gradient, solid, glass, outline options with rounded or square shapes
  • Theme-aware colors – Follow WordPress theme colors automatically
  • Privacy-first – No cookies, no tracking, no external fonts, no telemetry

Perfect For

  • Blog posts and long-form articles to keep readers engaged
  • E-learning and course platforms to show learning progress
  • News websites with heavy scrolling content
  • Sites using Intercom, Zendesk, LiveChat and other chat widgets
  • Multilingual sites with RTL languages
  • Elementor, Divi, and Gutenberg sites
  • Accessibility-conscious teams

Configuration

Everything is controlled from a simple settings page with no coding required.

  • Choose scroll threshold and animation speed
  • Enable or disable reading progress and SmartDock independently
  • Responsive profiles to set different appearance for mobile, tablet, and desktop
  • ContentProgress auto-detection for main content
  • Live preview showing exactly how it will look before saving
  • Add CSS class to floating widgets you want to protect from overlap
  • Customize colors with theme-aware palette or custom color picker

Developer Integration

Developers get full control via CSS classes, data attributes and hooks. site/back-to-top/#documentation

Privacy Notice

This plugin respects user privacy completely.

  • No cookies or local storage
  • No visitor tracking or analytics
  • No external API calls
  • No third-party services
  • GDPR, CCPA and LGPD compliant
  • All data stored locally in WordPress database

Support

For help, questions, or feature requests:

site

site/back-to-top

site/back-to-top/#documentation

org/support/plugin/akava-back-to-top/

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • back to top
  • progress bar
  • reading progress
  • scroll to top
  • rtl
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 7.0

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 7.0.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.0
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.3 · PHP 7.4
Update activity17 Aug 20262mo ago

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