Scroll Back To Top
This plugin will add a button that allows users to scroll smoothly to the top of the page.
4.2(56 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs of April 2026, Scroll Back To Top is a WordPress button plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 56 reviews. It has been downloaded 129K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 25% this week. Top alternative: AddQuicktag.
4.2/556 reviews
10K+active installs
129K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Scroll Back to Top is a WordPress plugin to add a button that appears only when users scroll down the page allowing them to scroll to the top of the page. The plugin comes pre-configured and is fully functional on activation. The plugin offers a number of webmaster-friendly features to completely customize the look, position, and animation. In addition, there is a setting to allow you to put the button in preview mode so it only appears when logged in, which is great for configuration, then fully enable it for everyone to see! This button is built on jQuery and is designed to be dead easy, without the need to modify any markup or the theme.
Usage
This was built for anyone to use, with no knowledge of HTML or CSS required!
- Install the plugin through the Plugins interface or by uploadi…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
something is wrong 07/31/2020
by nickkehe·5 years ago
Well in principal I like this addon it is well organized it offers all the options for customization that I needed and looked nice. BUT! But it drove the CPU usage through the roof. Our initial server response time went up to 7 seconds from initially under 2 seconds.
I don’t know what in detail causes this effect. It cost me some time to find out this plugin was the cause because I checked everything else first because I didn’t expect a plugin that takes care of such a relatively small detail could have such a big effect.
Slows down websites, don’t install this plugin
by createscape·5 years ago
I just removed this plugin on a site that was performing very slowly, about 6-12 seconds per page load in the admin area. Removing the plugin reduced the page load speed down to around 2 seconds (it’s an old site with a lot of plugins).
Do not use this plugin.
High server CPU and memory usage
by wordpee·5 years ago
Beware! When WordPress.org warns you a plugin has not been tested with latest major release (5.4 in my case), or that it has not been maintained in over a year (five years at the time of writing), do not install it.
Simply deactivating this plugin gave me a huge improvement on website performance. The CPU usage graph on my server dropped dramatically over the next few days.
Before deactivating there was about 2.5 seconds to wait before each page would start to render. After deactivating the whole website was a dream to navigate.
It’s astonishing that a seemingly simple plugin could cripple a website in such a way.
Also, unless I’m mistake, the plugin appears to load an entire icon library for a single icon.
If……
by growtaiwan·7 years ago
If you add shortcode, it will be more perfect.
most inefficient autoloader I have ever seen
by hellocon·7 years ago·1 reply
The site is terribly slow after enabling this plugin (0.15s with plugin disabled and 2.7s with enabled). This is caused by a very poor autoloader with recursive directory traversal making more than 5500+ misses before loading 10 required files. Moreover, it makes several substr() + preg_match() + str_replace() calls in every check.
Author must pay more attention to quality of the code.
Download Trends
Today: 6Yesterday: 9This week: 42Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.3
- Addresses PHP error in versions of PHP prior to 5.3
Contributors
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