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Progress Bar

A simple progress bar shortcode that can be styled with CSS

By Chris Reynolds·CSS3·Free
5(24 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 11 months ago
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As of April 2026, Progress Bar is a WordPress CSS3 plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 24 reviews. It has been downloaded 68K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Downloads are up 162% this week. Top alternative: Image Hover Effects For WPBakery Page….

5/524 reviews
1.0K+active installs
68K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012

Overview

This plugin does one thing: it creates a simple (but nice-looking) CSS3 progress bar that you can style with your own CSS and use wherever you want with a simple shortcode. Now with support for custom colors and gradients.

To add a progress bar to a post or a page, simply use this shortcode:

[wppb progress=50]

where “50” in the example above is a progress bar that is 50% complete.  Simple, lightweight, cross-browser compatible (degrades nicely for browsers that don\’t support CSS3).

For more examples and full descriptions of all the available options, click on the options tab.

For demos of each of the options, go here: https://progressbar.jazzsequence.com

Options

This page describes all the available parameters for the shortcode. These can be used in any combination. Th…

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Ratings & Reviews

524 reviews
5 ★
24
4 ★
0
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
0

Recent Reviews

Works great!
by Brisch·2 years ago·1 reply

Also mobile-ready! Works great, thanks!

Clean and simple
by applestalk·3 years ago·1 reply

Love this plugin, clean and simple, easy to customise and place wherever you like.

Absolutely Cute
by authormelanieray·8 years ago

Fill in as much or as little as you want. I really like the way this looks on my site.

Thank you!
by SUMMER·8 years ago·1 reply

Wonderful plugin that is my wanted, thank you!

Thanks.
by Ümit Solmaz·9 years ago

Thanks you.

Download Trends

Today: 12Yesterday: 12This week: 220Period total: 5K

Compatibility

WordPress2.8+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v2.2
79.8%
v2.1
20.2%

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Changelog

** 2.2.4 **
* Fixed XSS vulnerability reported by muhammad yudha for Patchstack
* Cleaned up and refactored some possibly buggy code and sanitization/escaping issues.

** 2.2.3 **
* Fixed PHP < 8.0 backwards compatibility issue [#24]

** 2.2.2 **
* use esc_attr instead of sanitize_text_field [

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Chris ReynoldsChris Reynolds
Plugin Info
Version
2.2.4
Last Updated
May 5, 2025
WP Requires
2.8+
Tested Up To
6.7.5
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
68K+
Added
Feb 10, 2012
Business
Free

Tags

css3progressshortcodeprogress bar

Developer

C
Chris Reynolds
5 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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