Overview
PageLoader is a wildly customizable loading screen and progress bar plugin for WordPress. Add it to your theme as a simple preloader or make use of it as a full-blown branding tool; the incredibly easy-to-use customization tools allow for both. PageLoader is a fantastically lightweight and unobtrusive preloader that makes an instant impression on your visitors.
- Add to any theme
- Customize with real-time previews
- WordPress Multisite compatible
- Thoroughly tried and tested on different devices, browsers, and operating systems
- Actively developed
- Lifetime free updates
- Proven developer with customer-praised support
Features and functionality
Loading icon
- Choose from 10 included animated icons
- Position icon anywhere on the screen
- Freely change the icon animation speed, size, and colors
- Add blur and fade effects
- Optionally hide icon entirely
Loading image
- Upload image or enter image URL
- Position image anywhere on the screen
- Add pulsating animation and control animation speed
- Add blur and fade effects
Background
- Fade or slide animations (control direction, scaling, animation speed)
- Optionally enable smooth page transitions(the loading screen appears the moment a link is clicked)
- Set up any combination of appearance/disappearance animations. For example:
- the loading screen fades into view but slides to the bottom of the screen out of view
- the loading screen slides in from the left and slides out to the right
- etc.
- Optionally disable website content animation for preload
- Customize background-color
- Add secondary background color for fade animation (speed control included)
- Use secondary background color for background gradient (can be animated, animation speed customizable)
- 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
Progress bar
- Place anywhere on the screen
- Customize bar width, thickness, roundness
- Optionally display fullscreen
- Customize bar and bar background colors (gradient option also available)
- Optionally disable on touch devices
- Optionally disable all other elements and display the progress bar only
- Optionally disable progress bar altogether
Loading messages
- Position anywhere on the screen
- Enter up to 5 loading texts, to be shown at random on each page load
- Customize loading text color
- Customize font size
- Use theme font
Close function safeguard
- If loading takes too long, a helpful message with a close function appears. This comes in handy 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 text and background colors
- Customize button corner roundness
- Use theme font
Post-load website content animation
- Target entire site body or specific elements only (a blog post’s title and content, for example)
- Customize animation speed
- Customize slide-in animation direction and distance
- Customize scaling animation
- Customize opacity of element(s) the animation is applied to
Other options
- Display anything you’d like on the loading screen through the included unstyled widget location
- Display only once per browser session
- Set custom delay for loading screen disappearance
- Disable loader on specific posts/pages
- Show loading screen on touch devices only
- Show loader on homepage only (great for welcome screen behavior)
Important note on Version 4
The launch of version 4 is a notable update to PageLoader with numerous elements changed and added. When upgrading to version 4 from an earlier version, please take into consideration that you will most likely need to re-enter some of your settings. This is an unfortunate side effect of the changes and optimizations included in the re-build. This was done with our eyes on the future, however, so please do look forward to PageLoader’s continued evolution; as always, any and all updates will be 100% free to existing customers.
