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reading-progress-bar

Reading progressbar

A reading position indicator that you can use where you want: top, bottom or custom position in differents templates or post types.

indicator progress progressbar reading scroll
35.6 Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org
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Download Momentum

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Source Evidence

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mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.77
Progress Bar visible after scroll point

Progress Bar visible after scroll point: users show security, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report output
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Progress Bar visible after scroll point Hi, This is the ideal plugin for what I’m looking for, I’m just wondering if it’s possible to trigger the progress bar to only appear after a specific amount of scrolling.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.87
Use content size instead of page size (+Elementor blog)

Use content size instead of page size (+Elementor blog): users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report output
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Use content size instead of page size (+Elementor blog) After seeing the feature request topic @ https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-requests-124/ I thought that this was solved, but is seem not, while it’s quit mandatory for such plugin to be serious.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
Conflict with Hustle Social Share, Email Opt-in Form, and Popup Plugin

Conflict with Hustle Social Share, Email Opt-in Form, and Popup Plugin: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report output
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Conflict with Hustle Social Share, Email Opt-in Form, and Popup Plugin Hi Jean-Baptiste Your plugin conflict with Hustle Social Share, Email Opt-in Form, and Popup Plugin > https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-change-hover-activ-color-for-close-button Merci de regarder 😉 Hi Jean-Baptiste Your plugin conflict with Hustle Social Share, Email Opt-in Form, a
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
turn on or off progress bar for specific pages

turn on or off progress bar for specific pages: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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In the settings I can only activate it for all pages or all templates or all posts.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81
About the comment area

About the comment area: users show missing feature, migration, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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About the comment area Hello to the whole team, I have just installed today your extension following this excellent video: https://youtu.be/ZMrFvBs-cfc My concern is that there are often a lot of comments in my articles, I would like the progress bar to only deal with the article, is that possible?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.8
Progress based on actual post content?

Progress based on actual post content?: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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According to the plugin listing this plugin was recently updated to v1.2.2, but almost four years ago version 1.3 of the plugin was mentioned as ”coming” in an earlier topic in this forum, saying that v1.3 should contain a feature that calculates the progress bar based on the length of the actual content of the post, even when responsive pages shift content
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
jQuery error on WordPress 5.5.3 an 5.6

jQuery error on WordPress 5.5.3 an 5.6: users show bugs, migration, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report output
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jQuery error on WordPress 5.5.3 an 5.6 Hi, I’ve got a JavaScript error with WordPress 5.5.3 and 5.6 : Uncaught TypeError: e.indexOf is not a function load jQuery http://example.com/wp-content/plugins/reading-progress-bar/public/js/rp-public.js?ver=5.5.3:5 http://example.com/wp-content/plugins/reading-progress-bar/public/js/rp-public.js?ver=5.5.3:59 jquery-3.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Use Content size like #entry-content as the page height option

Use Content size like #entry-content as the page height option: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Use Content size like #entry-content as the page height option Hello, plugin author, thank you for releasing such easy-using plugin!
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Progress bar doesn’t seem to work on some blog page templates.

Progress bar doesn’t seem to work on some blog page templates.: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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The progress bar does not occupy the entire top area of ​​the page from left to right and does not follow the settings colors.
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.74
Feature requests

Feature requests: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Feature requests Hi, thank you for this little small plugin.

Competitor Context

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Reading Position Indicator praise owner · intel 53.5 · weakness 31.7
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4 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
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Pending Indicator praise owner · intel 38.8 · weakness 31.9
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stale update history 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
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Collected Signals

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mixed Great plugin but one major feature missing support · 2026-02-19T10:47:22+00:00 · low severity · progressbar

The user likes Reading Progress Bar but wants settings to calculate progress for a specific content element instead of the whole page body.

Evidence: show the reading progress only for the element with the class .content-area
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praise Reliable, lightwave reading progress bar (5 stars) review · 2024-04-29T13:55:58+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Reliable, lightwave reading progress bar: users praise reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Reliable, lightwave reading progress bar Well coded reading progress bar, the best I’ve tried.
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complaint Progress bar doesn’t seem to work on some blog page templates. support · 2024-02-28T16:43:26+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Progress bar doesn’t seem to work on some blog page templates.: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The progress bar does not occupy the entire top area of ​​the page from left to right and does not follow the settings colors.
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praise Awesome plugin! (5 stars) review · 2023-08-11T23:03:08+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Awesome plugin!: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Works <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”> flawlessly </span> on any website I’ve installed it on.
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question Exclude sidebar lenght support · 2022-12-19T14:17:37+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Exclude sidebar lenght: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Exclude sidebar lenght Is there a way to exclude the sidebar length and calculate the percentage only on the article content? Thanks! Is there a way to exclude the sidebar length and calculate the percentage only on the article content? Thanks!
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complaint Placement support · 2022-04-25T12:03:17+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Placement: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: But it disappears on a mobile, can you please help me with that?
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praise Extension super pratique et très simple (5 stars) review · 2022-03-02T13:52:12+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Extension super pratique et très simple: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Extension super pratique et très simple Extension facile à configurer, légère, et qui fait parfaitement son boulot.
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complaint Transparent Background Option support · 2021-12-01T01:14:57+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Transparent Background Option: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Transparent Background Option Hello I love your plugin and share it will all my clients.
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question Progress Bar Percentage Question support · 2021-10-11T16:48:13+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Progress Bar Percentage Question: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Progress Bar Percentage Question Is there any way to create a bar for 0% progress? The lowest percentage I’m able to display currently is 1%. Thanks. Is there any way to create a bar for 0% progress? The lowest percentage I’m able to display currently is 1%. Thanks.
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complaint turn on or off progress bar for specific pages support · 2021-09-03T11:05:25+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

turn on or off progress bar for specific pages: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: In the settings I can only activate it for all pages or all templates or all posts.
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praise Simple et efficace (5 stars) review · 2021-07-29T17:13:45+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Simple et efficace: users praise easy, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Simple et efficace Super, fait ce qu’il doit faire et il le fait bien.
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praise Does the job perfectly (5 stars) review · 2021-05-26T11:01:06+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Does the job perfectly: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Does the job perfectly Easy to configure and quick to set up!
setup easy quality data table and stats presentation operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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mixed Click on select color not working support · 2021-05-22T15:37:04+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Click on select color not working: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hello, That was probably a jQuery error.
bugs support reliable data table and stats presentation operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
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question Run until the end of the article support · 2021-04-24T08:42:02+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Run until the end of the article: question conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Run until the end of the article Hi I want the progress to only run until the end of the article, not to the bottom of the footer. Is it possible? Thank you Hi I want the progress to only run until the end of the article, not to the bottom of the footer. Is it possible? Thank you
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neutral Minify the script support · 2021-04-06T09:38:56+00:00 · low severity · progressbar

Minify the script: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Minify the script Please provide a minified version of the script under rp-public.min.js (and include it instead of unminified version) Please provide a minified version of the script under rp-public.min.js (and include it instead of unminified version) Done in 1.3 Thanks! Done in 1.3 Thanks!
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praise Perfect (5 stars) review · 2021-03-25T15:58:54+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Perfect: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Perfect good plugin good plugin
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praise simple and efficient (5 stars) review · 2021-03-18T19:48:30+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

simple and efficient: users praise easy, performance, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: simple and efficient we like this simplicity we like this simplicity
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complaint About the comment area support · 2021-02-25T15:29:24+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

About the comment area: users show missing feature, migration, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: About the comment area Hello to the whole team, I have just installed today your extension following this excellent video: https://youtu.be/ZMrFvBs-cfc My concern is that there are often a lot of comments in my articles, I would like the progress bar to only deal with the article, is that possible?
missing feature migration setup quality data table and stats presentation operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report output
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neutral Available for AMP support · 2021-01-15T12:07:42+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

Available for AMP: neutral conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Available for AMP Hi! Thanks for this plugin. I was asking if it would be available for AMP too. Thanks! Hi! Thanks for this plugin. I was asking if it would be available for AMP too. Thanks!
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mixed jQuery error on WordPress 5.5.3 an 5.6 support · 2021-01-06T08:40:27+00:00 · medium severity · progressbar

jQuery error on WordPress 5.5.3 an 5.6: users show bugs, migration, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: jQuery error on WordPress 5.5.3 an 5.6 Hi, I’ve got a JavaScript error with WordPress 5.5.3 and 5.6 : Uncaught TypeError: e.indexOf is not a function load jQuery http://example.com/wp-content/plugins/reading-progress-bar/public/js/rp-public.js?ver=5.5.3:5 http://example.com/wp-content/plugins/reading-progress-bar/public/js/rp-public.js?ver=5.5.3:59 jquery-3.
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