Download the latest version of my WordPress plugin “Add to Home Screen & Progressive Web App”, available again on WordPress, and coded based on the excellent script “Add to home screen” from Cubiq.org (under MIT license). This free plugin allow to invite your readers on iPhone and Android to add a shortcut of your site to their home screen and launch it in Progressive Web App format, a format that allows your site to launch as a mobile application. The goal? Remind your visitors of your online presence and encourage them to visit your site frequently.
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Premium version →In summary, regarding Add to Home Screen & PWA
Add to Home Screen & PWA for WordPress is, in my opinion, a good extension. essential for "classic" websites, for a simple reason: the hegemony of native mobile applications and social networks has wiped out the audience of blogs and traditional websites.
However, not all website owners have the resources to develop native mobile applications and submit them to the App Store and Play Store.
Therefore, the simplest solution is the Progressive Web App, a format that allows transform a WordPress site into a mobile application, without having to go through the app stores. That's how you transform a website into a "Web App", and That's precisely what my Add to Home Screen & PWA extension for WordPress allows you to do..
However, there is a problem with the PWA that no one has been able to solve: How can you invite your website's readers to install your site on their smartphone's home screen? Knowing that most people don't even know they can do it. But thanks to the extension Add to Home Screen & PWA, you can now propose a very elegant tooltip who will invite your readers to add your site to their smartphone.
With the Add to Home Screen & PWA extension for WordPress, your readers can launch your site as a web app, smoothly and intuitively. Having the shortcut on their smartphones will increase your visibility and encourage them to visit your site more often.
- A plugin compatible with all recent iPhone and Android devices and successfully tested with WordPress versions above 7.0 🚀
- A plugin tailored for individual WordPress sites but also multisite network installations !
- Of the pro features to be discovered right after, or directly on the Add to Home Screen premium page.
The benefits of Add to Home Screen & PWA for WordPress
Internet users no longer automatically launch their browsers to access online content. They prefer to use native mobile applications. This behavior represents a significant loss of audience for WordPress blogs.
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In order to capture and re-engage incoming visitors of your website but also loyal readers who tend to return to your site frequently, the WordPress extension Add to home screen & Progressive Web App allows them to add your site to their iPhone or Android device, just like any other app. And without the huge costs of developing a native mobile app that would go through the App Store and the Play Store.
In other words, this script allows you to “mimic” adding your blog as if it were a native app, when in fact it's just a matter of adding a simple shortcut and transforming your site into a Progressive Web App (PWA).
PWA is a format that allows your site to launch as a mobile application, in order to mimic the behavior of real native applications.
However, few people know how to use the shortcut adder on iPhone and Android, and this extension solves this problem by offering Internet users an attractive and customizable invitationOnce your website is added to their smartphone, the user will be able to launch your site with a tap of their finger, rather than having to search for your site in their browser, type in the URL, etc.
Once activated, the plugin is active and you just have to customize it to match your website:
- Enable or not enable the PWA format
- Choose the start page of your web app (homepage or custom page)
- Choose the installation prompt for Android between the tooltip, the default Android prompt, or the option to disable the prompt.
- Ability to display the tooltip only on the home page rather than on all pages of your site.
- Ability to only display the tooltip during the second visit, which allows you to avoid annoying visitors who are discovering your site for the first time.
- Customize the message inviting the user to add the blog to their home screen.
- Choose the type of incoming and outgoing animation and the delay for the message to appear and disappear.
- Customize the length of time before the message reappears after closing.
- Provide a custom icon for your Web App.
- Etc…
Add to Home Screen & Progressive Web App demo in videos:
In this video, the web app is launched on an iPhone. The user experience is seamless, just like a real native app:
In this second video, the website is added to the home screen from an Android device and then transformed into a Web App:
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Furthermore, I developed this plugin to make it compatible with multisite installations, allowing you to activate it at the network level and to Apply it to all sites on your network, or activate it individually per sub-site..
Screenshots of the extension
Premium Features 💎
The free version of my plugin Add to Home Screen WP is a great start, but premium features go even further. Find out how they can boost your user experience and keep your visitors coming back!
📲 iOS and Android prompt customization : A simple click on “Add to Home Screen” And presto ✨, your website is now available on Android smartphones. With the Pro version, you can add a beautiful icon representing your website in the tooltip.
⏳ Loading indicator : Add a stylish spinner during page transitions on your Web App for smooth and professional navigation
🔄 Pull to Refresh : Offer your users a “swipe down” refresh gesture to reload pages, just like in real mobile apps.
🎨 Colors & spinner to suit you : Customize the top bar and loading indicator with your brand colors.
🪄 Bottom navigation bar with Back, Forward and Share buttons : Add a customizable bottom navigation bar to your Web App, with Back, Forward, and Share buttons, to improve navigation fluidity for your mobile visitors while reinforcing the “native app” feel of your site.
📈 Installation monitoring : Track how many users add your Web App to their home screen with detailed statistics (iOS vs Android split and number of active users over the last 30 days).
💻 Full PWA support : Transform your website but also your WordPress dashboard into a Progressive Web App fast and fluid.⚡ The PWA is a format that allows your site to launch as a mobile app, so as to mimic the behavior of real native applications, but without the cost associated with developing such applications.
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