Advanced Scrollbar – Custom Scrollbar Styling and Behavior

Intuitively design scrollbar color, width, and behavior with a lightweight – No Code Required

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Advanced Scrollbar is a lightweight WordPress plugin that lets you easily add and customize scrollbars to fit your site’s style. Customize scrollbar color, width, background, speed, and alignment—no coding required. Fully compatible with all major browsers and WordPress themes, it’s the fast way to give your site a polished, user-friendly scrolling experience.

Whether you prefer subtle styling tweaks or vibrant animated effects, Advanced Scrollbar helps you enhance navigation and match your design—especially useful for content-heavy pages with long scroll areas.

Key Features – Free Version

• Scrollbar Appearance: Customize thumb color, rail background, width, border, and rounded corners.
• Visibility Controls: Show or hide the scrollbar when not in use.
• Scroll Behavior: Adjust scroll speed, smoothness, and mouse scroll step.
• Alignment Options: Place the scrollbar on the left or right.
• Touch-Friendly: Enable optimized scrolling for touch devices.
• Lightweight & Universal: Ad-free, powered by jQuery, works across browsers and themes.

Cursor & Click Effects: Free Styles

• Cursor Shapes: Follow, Dot, Blob, Elastic.
• Click Effects: Spark, Spark Simple, Starburst.

Advanced Scrollbar Pro – Unlock Premium Features

The Pro version adds advanced design options, premium effects, and enhanced controls to give your scrollbar a unique look and feel.

What’s New in the Pro Version?

• Dynamic Full-Height Scrollbars: Ideal for long pages.
• Gradient & Floating Designs: Apply modern gradient colors or floating scrollbars.
• Premium Cursor Shapes: Glitch Matrix, Neon, Gradient, Magnetic, Ribbon, Spotlight, and more.
• Premium Click Effects: Ripples, Pulses, Waves, Explosions, and other animations.
• Custom Floating Scrollbar Colors: Set background and text colors for floating scrollbars.

Upgrade to Pro and unlock all premium features today!

Flexible Application Modes

• Global Mode: Apply chosen styles site-wide from the plugin dashboard.
• Page/Post Specific Mode: Apply unique effects directly in the WordPress editor—great for campaigns or featured content.

How to Use Advanced Scrollbar – Quick Start Guide

Getting started is easy!

1. Install and activate the plugin.
2. Go to Settings → Advanced Scrollbar.
3. Customize scrollbar and cursor styles in the settings panel.
4. Save changes and enjoy your new scrolling experience.

Use Cases

• Enhance user experience on content-heavy pages.
• Strengthen brand consistency with customizable UI.
• Optimize navigation flow on long-form content or sites with dynamic layout.

Live Demo | Try the Pro Version

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Source Code

You can find the source code, report bugs, and contribute to the development of this plugin on our GitHub repository:
Advanced Scrollbar on GitHub

This plugin bundles the following third-party JavaScript/PHP libraries.

jQuery nicescroll v3.7.6

• File: assets/js/jquery.nicescroll.min.js
• Source: https://github.com/inuyaksa/jquery.nicescroll
• GitHub: https://github.com/inuyaksa/jquery.nicescroll
• License: MIT – https://github.com/inuyaksa/jquery.nicescroll/blob/master/MIT.LICENSE
• Purpose: Enhances scrollable areas with smooth scrolling, momentum effects, and customizable stylish scrollbars for a more modern and user-friendly interface experience.

Font Awesome Free v6.4.2

• File: src/settings/assets/css/font-awesome.min.css
• Source: https://fontawesome.com/
• GitHub: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome
• License: Icons: CC BY 4.0, Fonts: SIL OFL 1.1, Code: MIT – https://fontawesome.com/license/free
• Purpose: Provides scalable vector icons used in the plugin’s admin settings interface for improved UI clarity and visual consistency.

Freemius SDK

• Source: https://freemius.com/
• GitHub: https://github.com/Freemius/wordpress-sdk
• License: GPLv3 – https://github.com/Freemius/wordpress-sdk/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
• Purpose: Provides opt-in usage tracking and analytics to help improve the plugin.

This plugin connects to the following external services from the admin dashboard:

bPlugins API

• Service URL: https://api.bplugins.com
• Purpose: The plugin’s admin dashboard fetches product comparison data and pricing information to display relevant upgrade options and feature details.
• Data Sent: Only the plugin slug is transmitted; no personal or site data is collected.
• Terms of Service: https://bplugins.com/terms-of-service/
• Privacy Policy: https://bplugins.com/privacy-policy/

WordPress.org Plugins API

• Service URL: https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.2/
• Purpose: The admin dashboard queries the official WordPress.org Plugins API to retrieve and display a curated list of other plugins by the same author (“Our Plugins” section).
• Data Sent: Plugin slugs and author name; no personal or site data is collected.
• Terms of Service: https://wordpress.org/about/tos/
• Privacy Policy: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/

bpl-tools

• Source / GitHub: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools
• License: GPL-2.0-or-later – https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
• Purpose: Shared utility library providing admin dashboard components and common Gutenberg editor controls.
• External Services: The library may connect to bPlugins, WordPress.org, and Freemius services for product data and checkout functionality. See full details: https://github.com/bPlugins/bpl-tools#external-requests–why-they-are-made