PageLoader: Loading Screen and Progress Bar

PageLoader is a tremendously customizable WordPress loading screen and progression bar plugin. Add it to your theme as a simple loader or make use of it as a full-blown branding tool; the incredibly easy to use customization tools allow for both (and then some!).

It’s a fantastically lightweight and unobtrusive way to make your website more memorable.

PageLoader has a strong development history. As the plugin continues to grow and evolve, customers will continue to reap the value benefits through continuous free updates. And, needless to say, our much-praised support makes for happy customers.

Features:

• WordPress loading bar and loading screen plugin
• Tremendously, easily customizable
• Add to any theme
• Actively developed
• Customize with real-time previews (Live Customizer integration)
• Very easy to use, just install-and-go
• Very lightweight
• WordPress Multisite compatible
• Thoroughly tried and tested:
  • desktop, tablets, smartphones
  • iOS, Android, Windows devices
  • Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, Opera

Customization:

• Loading/progress bar:
  • Optionally disable
  • Customize placement (top or bottom of the screen, or below loading icon/image)
  • You can customize bar thickness, width, and padding
  • Customize bar and bar background colors (gradient option also available)
  • You can also optionally disable on touch devices
  • Optionally disable all other elements and display the progress bar only
  • Optionally slide/fade in loading elements upon loading screen appearance
• Loading icon/image:
  • Use one of 10 included icons or..
  • ..upload your own loading image or enter image URL (animated or static)
  • Add custom ALT text
  • Customize icon color
  • Customize icon size (4 settings)
  • Apply animations to loading icon/image:
    • Rotating animation (clockwise or counterclockwise)
    • Fade-in/out pulsing animation
    • 4 animation speeds (slow, medium, fast, disabled)
    • On load start, blur and/or fade-in loading icon/image
    • Upon load completion, fade or zoom out loading icon/image
    • Secondary loading indicator (indicate loading progress when displaying a static image for example, color customizable)
  • Optionally hide loading icon/image entirely
• Loading text:
  • Enter any loading text (or nothing at all)
  • Support for up to 3 loading texts, to be shown at random on each page load
  • Customize loading text color
  • Customize font size
  • Use theme font
  • If no loading sentence is used, unload GoogleFonts
• Animated loading dots:
  • Optionally display additional loading indicator dots below loading icon/image
  • Customize color
  • Apply custom scaling
• Background:
  • Fade-out or slide-out (control direction, scaling, speed)
  • Customize background-color
  • Add secondary background color for fade animation (speed control included)
  • Customize background color transparency for a see-through effect
  • Upload background image (set as a pattern or full size)
  • Customize background image transparency for a see-through effect
• Close function safeguard
  • If loading takes too long, a helpful message with a close function appears. This is very useful if something prevents a page from finishing loading (unresponsive embedded content from a third-party, for example)
  • Set custom appearance timing
  • Enter custom text
  • Customize color
  • and much more

Other settings:

• Unstyled widget location
• Optionally display once-per-session
• You can also optionally set a custom delay for loading screen disappearance
• Optionally disable loader on specific posts/pages
• You can also optionally show loading screen on touch devices only
• Optionally show loader on homepage only (great for welcome screen behavior)