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WP Smart Preloader

A Plugin to add awesome collection of Loaders and Spinners. Delightful and performance-focused Pure CSS animations.

By catchsquare·Posts·Free
4.4(25 reviews)
·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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As of April 2026, WP Smart Preloader is a WordPress posts plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 25 reviews. It has been downloaded 205K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.8+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 27% this week. Top alternative: WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes….

4.4/525 reviews
6.0K+active installs
205K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

WP Smart Preloader is a Simple CSS spinners and throbbers made with CSS and minimal HTML markup. It offers visual feedback in the event of content being loaded, thereby managing expectations and reducing the chance of a user abandoning your wordpress website.

You will find following features with this plugin:

  • Full Responsive with Cross Broser compatible
  • CSS only Preloader no Gif no Image
  • Full Customize.
  • Faster Loading
  • Icon to circle
  • No coding necessary. Activate it and play with its settings and you’re Good to go
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.425 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Clever but limited
by multmediadesigns·1 year ago

Did work out of the install…but, it is on a timer, vs watching for when the actual heavy loading page completes. I also needed it to run on a particular page and not the whole site.

Good preloader!
by silvershine·2 years ago

Once I added the code below to my functions.php file and adjusted the timing it works great. I also like the included loading image #1 better than other preloaders.

add_action('wp_footer', function(){ ?>
  <script>
    (function($){
      $(function () {
          setTimeout(function() {
		jQuery('body .smart-page-loader').fadeOut(500, function() {
				jQuery('body .smart-page-loader').css('opacity', 0);
		});
    }, 1500);
      });
    })(jQuery);
  </script>
  <?php
});
  • This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by silvershine. Reason: code didn't appear correctly
It is not a CSS Only Preloader (as advertised)
by Dennis Bareis·3 years ago

It will cause a blank page to be displayed if Javascript is turned off.

the best
by hoceinabbasi·4 years ago

best preload plugin

Works perfectly
by philsimon·5 years ago

This plug-in does exactly what you’d expect. Love it. I installed it on my site.

  • This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by philsimon.

Download Trends

Today: 21Yesterday: 19This week: 117Period total: 14K

Compatibility

WordPress2.8+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.15
83.9%
v1.11
6.8%
v1.14
5.2%
v1.12
4.1%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.15.2

frontend script

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
1.15.3
Last Updated
Oct 27, 2024
WP Requires
2.8+
Tested Up To
6.6.5
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
6.0K+
Downloads
205K+
Added
Dec 18, 2015
Business
Free

Tags

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Developer

C
catchsquare
5 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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