The ultimate Preloader plugin for WordPress. Smart, flexible, and made for easy control. Add a preloader to your website easily in only 3 steps.
As of April 2026, Preloader is a WordPress load plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.1/5 rating from 41 reviews. It has been downloaded 285K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.8+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Disable Lazy Load.
The ultimate Preloader plugin for WordPress. Smart, flexible, and made for easy control.
Add a preloader to your website easily in only 3 steps. Simple, fast, and compatible with all major browsers.
On June 19, 2025, we released version “2.0.0”. Features:
such simple thing as preloader, didn’t expect so many affiliate links
Preloader got stuck and never disappeared to display the website. Also you are limited to 128x128px
Couldn’t get it to work on a very basic WP install. Better preloader plugins to choose from. Sadly it seems a quickly built plugin just designed to generate some ad revenue and waste people’s time. Very little features. Requires editing your theme files to work.
Not sure when this happened but now the Dashboard is littered with affiliates with this installed.
Current version installed: 1.0.9
Date noticed: 2020/08/04
// Add plugin meta links
function WPTime_preloader_plugin_row_meta( $links, $file ) {
if ( strpos( $file, 'preloader.php' ) !== true ) {
$new_links = array(
'<a href="http://wp-plugins.in/the-preloader" target="_blank">Explanation of Use</a>',
'<a href="http://www.elegantthemes.com/affiliates/idevaffiliate.php?id=24967&tid1=preloader_plugin_m&url=35248" target="_blank">Elegant Themes</a>',
'<a href="https://www.bluehost.com/track/wptime/preloader-plugin-m" target="_blank">Bluehost</a>',
'<a href="http://wp-plugins.in" target="_blank">More Plugins</a>'
);
$links = array_merge( $links, $new_links );
}
return $links;
}
add_filter( 'plugin_row_meta', 'WPTime_preloader_plugin_row_meta', 10, 2 );Well, the preloader background does not disappear after the content of the page has been loaded. Developer does not answer support requests on the support forum. So you’d better try a plugin where you can have support in case of problem.
| WordPress | 5.8+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
The plugin is now faster with improved performance. After updating, no action is required on your part.
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