Advanced Reading Progress & View Counter

Advanced Reading Progress & View Counter helps improve user engagement by showing visitors:

✔ How much content they have read
✔ Which posts are most popular
✔ A cleaner and more interactive reading experience

The plugin combines a customizable reading progress indicator with a lightweight post view counter that includes anti-refresh protection.

Perfect for:

• Blogs
• News websites
• Tutorial sites
• Documentation websites
• Magazine-style WordPress websites

Why Use This Plugin?

Many readers leave long articles before finishing them.

A reading progress bar encourages visitors to continue scrolling and improves content interaction. At the same time, the built-in view counter helps display content popularity and social proof.

This plugin is lightweight, easy to configure, and works without external tracking services.

Reading Progress Features

• Top reading progress bar
• Circular/radial progress indicator
• Custom colors and thickness
• Multiple display positions
• Mobile-friendly design
• Select supported post types
• Lightweight frontend assets

Post View Counter Features

• Smart anti-refresh protection
• Configurable lock window
• Custom prefix & suffix
• Multiple display positions
• Manual shortcode placement
• Support for specific post IDs
• Hide zero-view counts

Easy Customization

• Beginner-friendly settings
• Clean WordPress admin UI
• No coding required
• Lightweight and performance-focused

Shortcodes

Display the counter anywhere manually:

[arpvc_view_counter]

Alias shortcode:

[arpvc_read_count]

Show views for a specific post:

[arpvc_view_counter post_id="123"]

Add custom text:

[arpvc_view_counter prefix="Views:" suffix="Total"]

Hide counter when views are zero:

[arpvc_view_counter show_zero="0"]<h3>Development</h3>

Source code is available on GitHub:

https://github.com/Teckut-Git/advanced-reading-progress-view-counter

Production assets included in the plugin are generated using npm and gulp.