This lightweight plugin enhances user experience by enabling smooth scrolling for anchor links without the need for jQuery or other dependencies.
As of April 2026, Fast Smooth Scroll is a WordPress lightweight plugin with 800 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2023. Top alternative: FrontBlocks for Gutenberg/GeneratePress.
This plugin takes a no-frills approach to smooth scrolling, providing a fast, performant, and accessible user experience.
Simply enable the plugin, and any anchor links (i.e. links that point to other content on the same page) will provide a smooth scrolling experience rather than abruptly jumping to the destination content.
The plugin relies on the latest smooth scrolling techniques using CSS. A very fast and lightweight JavaScript polyfill (<1KB) is included to equally support older browsers, including Internet Explorer. So you can rest assured this plugin covers your userbase.
Smooth scrolling is a basic feature to enhance user experience, so it shouldn’t come at a performance cost that at the same time harms user experience elsewhere.
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| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.2+ required |
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