How to Add Reading Progress Bar in WordPress Website

Hi to all in this article, I am going to tell you all about how to add reading progress bar in WordPress website, easily in just few minutes.

Read the below provided steps carefully and completely to get clear understanding about the pro0gress bar.

Boost your engagement by suing read time and reading progress bar.

By adding both reading time and the progress bar, will encourage the users to rea the article completely till end.

This works perfectly and give visitors an idea about the time needed to read the complete article.

Reading time will be seen in minutes and reading progress bar shows the exact reader's position in the post.

By adding this reading progress bar, you will get users engagement and users read the article till end, and due to this your page bounce rate will decrease, and also it boost your AdSense revenue.

How to Add Reading Progress Bar in WordPress

Steps to Add Reading Progress Bar in WordPress Website

Step-1: First of all login to your WordPress dashboard by using your login credentials.

Step-2: Now click on Plugins -> Add a New Plugin -> Search for Read Meter

Step-3: Click on Install.

Step-4: After installation, click on Activate.

Step-5: Go to Settings -> Select Read Meter -> Read Meter Settings page.

Step-6: Here you can see so many option like:

• General Settings
• Read Time
• Progress Bar
• Getting Started

You can see all the options, and relatedly choose them based on your requirement, for progress bar choose the third button i.e. progress bar.

Step-7: In progress bar you can few option, they are as follow:

Display Position: Here select Top of the page.

Styles: Select gradient.

Background color: You can select background color or leave as usual.

Primary color: You can select primary color or leave as usual

secondary color: You can select secondary color or leave as usual.

Bar Thickness: You an increase or decrease the size of the bar, for example: 8px.

Step-8: Click on Save button.

Step-9: You have successfully added reading progress bar in your WordPress website easily inn just few minutes.

Note:

You can also change the color, size, background of progress bar.

In read time you need to add a short code copied from the plugin settings, and paste that short code [read_meter] at the top of the post, so that visitors can see the total time to read the post.

Conclusion

I hope that you have understood how to add reading progress bar and read time in your WordPress website easily in just few minutes.