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Essentials
Fewer than 10 installs · #62,564 most popular
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WPFront Scroll Top
by Syam Mohan
Adds a lightweight and smooth "Scroll to Top" button to your WordPress site, improving navigation and user experience with customizable options.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rank
- #279
- Rating
- 4.9(141)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
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To Top
by Catch Themes
To Top is a nifty lightweight plugin. It adds a highly customizable button, which when clicked, scrolls up smoothly to the top of a page.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rank
- #674
- Rating
- 4.8(54)
- Updated
- 5 months ago
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Smooth Back To Top Button
by Tanvirul Haque
Smooth Back To Top button with scroll progress indicator.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rank
- #880
- Rating
- 4.9(31)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
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UiCore Animate
by uicore
UiCore Animate adds page transitions, smooth scroll, and engaging animations to Elementor and Gutenberg blocks, for smoother, engaging experiences.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rank
- #831
- Rating
- 3.2(10)
- Updated
- 7 months ago
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Reading Time WP
by yingles
Reading Time WP creates an estimated reading time of your posts that is inserted above the content or by using a shortcode.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rank
- #1,112
- Rating
- 4.8(20)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
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jQuery Smooth Scroll
by Anand Kumar
Activate the plugin for smooth scrolling and smooth "back to top" feature.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rank
- #1,880
- Rating
- 4.5(47)
- Updated
- 9 months ago
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Scroll Back To Top
by joesexton00
This plugin will add a button that allows users to scroll smoothly to the top of the page.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rank
- #2,164
- Rating
- 4.2(56)
- Updated
- 9 years ago
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Smooth Scroll Up
by Konstantinos Kouratoras
Smooth Scroll Up is a lightweight plugin that creates a customizable back to top feature in your WordPress website.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rank
- #2,800
- Rating
- 4.8(59)
- Updated
- 7 years ago
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Block Animations, Motion & Scroll Effects
by nK
Animate WordPress blocks with reveal, scroll, mouse and loop effects, set in the block settings.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rank
- #2,690
- Rating
- 4.6(46)
- Updated
- 15 days ago
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Worth The Read
by brianmcculloh
An adjustable progress meter showing how much of the post/page the user has scrolled through, and a read time commitment label near the post titles.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rank
- #3,803
- Rating
- 4.3(27)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
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Scroll Back To Top Button
by Sayful Islam
This is just a very simple plugin to have a scroll back to top button throughout your whole blog/site.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rank
- #3,745
- Rating
- 4.0(8)
- Updated
- 1 year ago
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MakeITeasy Back To Top
by Lovro Hrust
Block based back to top. Lightweight, no dependencies, customizable and with some advanced options. Based on best block development practices.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rank
- #4,978
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Updated
- 1 month ago
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