{"id":866,"date":"2025-07-12T11:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T09:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/?p=866"},"modified":"2025-11-18T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:00:19","slug":"add-to-home-screen-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/en\/add-to-home-screen-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Add to Home Screen &amp; PWA WordPress Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download the latest version of my <strong>WordPress plugin <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/add-to-home-screen-wp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>\u201cAdd to Home Screen &amp; Progressive Web App\u201d<\/em><\/a>,<\/strong> available again on WordPress, and coded based on the excellent script <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cubiq\/add-to-homescreen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cAdd to home screen\u201d from Cubiq.org<\/a> (under MIT license). <span data-slate-fragment=\"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\">This <strong>free plugin<\/strong> allow <strong>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?<\/strong> Remind your visitors of your online presence and encourage them to visit your site frequently.<\/span><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background-color: #f39c12; color: white; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/en\/product\/aths-wordpress-premium\/\">Find the PRO version of the plugin by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>2025 Updates:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A plugin compatible with all recent iPhone and Android devices and successfully tested on WordPress 6.8 \ud83d\ude80<\/li>\n<li>A plugin tailored for individual WordPress sites <strong>but also multisite network installations<\/strong> !<\/li>\n<li>Of the <strong>pro features<\/strong> to be discovered right after, or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/en\/product\/aths-wordpress-premium\/\">directly on the Add to Home Screen premium page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This script is in my opinion <strong>essential<\/strong> in our time when most Internet users browse the web via a smartphone, and they are already very busy with mobile applications and social networks, which makes them forget to visit blogs and traditional websites whose content they would have appreciated.<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Add to Home Screen &amp; PWA for WordPress Video Introduction\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u2h0_h3ct48?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<p>For bloggers, <strong>This is a considerable loss of audience.<\/strong>, because Internet users no longer have the reflex to launch their browser to view content on the Internet. They prefer to do so using native mobile applications, which they are used to launching almost frantically, which also raises issues of excessive screen time for content of less than relative interest.<\/p>\n<p>In order to <strong>capture and re-engage incoming visitors<\/strong> of your website but also loyal readers who tend to return to your site frequently, the WordPress extension <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/add-to-home-screen-wp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Add to home screen &amp; Progressive Web App<\/a> allows them<strong> to add your site to their iPhone or Android device, just like any other app<\/strong>. And without the huge costs of developing a native mobile app that would go through the App Store and the Play Store.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4886\" src=\"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/ATHS-image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/ATHS-image.png 1500w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/ATHS-image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/ATHS-image-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/ATHS-image-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/ATHS-image-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/ATHS-image-12x12.png 12w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/ATHS-image-1320x1320.png 1320w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/ATHS-image-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/ATHS-image-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In other words, this script allows you to \u201cmimic\u201d <strong>adding your blog as if it were a native app<\/strong>, when in fact it&#039;s just a matter of adding a simple shortcut and transforming your site into a Progressive Web App (PWA).<\/p>\n<p>PWA is a format that allows your site to\u00a0<strong>launch as a mobile application, <\/strong>in order to mimic the behavior of real native applications.<\/p>\n<p>However, few people know how to use the shortcut adder on iPhone and Android, and this extension solves this problem by offering Internet users <strong>an attractive and customizable invitation<\/strong>Once 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/add-to-home-screen-wp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to download the Add to Home Screen WP Plugin from the WordPress Plugin Directory<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once activated, the plugin is active and you just have to customize it to match your website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enable or not enable the PWA format<\/li>\n<li>Choose the start page of your web app (homepage or custom page)<\/li>\n<li>Choose the installation prompt for Android between the tooltip, the default Android prompt, or the option to disable the prompt.<\/li>\n<li>Ability to display the tooltip only on the home page rather than on all pages of your site.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Customize the message inviting the user to add the blog to their home screen.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the type of incoming and outgoing animation and the delay for the message to appear and disappear.<\/li>\n<li>Customize the length of time before the message reappears after closing.<\/li>\n<li>Provide a custom icon for your Web App.<\/li>\n<li>Etc\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Add to Home Screen &amp; Progressive Web App demo in videos:<\/h2>\n<p>In this video, the web app is launched on an iPhone. The user experience is seamless, just like a real native app:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Add to home screen WP Premium\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rr9mc5FpplI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this second video, the website is added to the home screen from an Android device and then transformed into a Web App:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Add to home screen WP Premium\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2zQ3dYebowQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2b07\ufe0f Discover the premium features at the bottom of this article! \u2b07\ufe0f<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, I&#039;ve developed this plugin to be 100% compatible with multisite installations, allowing you to enable it at the network level and apply it to all sites in your network, or enable it at the individual level per subsite.<\/p>\n<h2>Screenshots of the extension<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-272\" src=\"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/example-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"485\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/example-image.jpg 733w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/example-image-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-922\" src=\"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/screenshot-8-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"489\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/screenshot-8-2.jpg 440w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/screenshot-8-2-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/03\/screenshot-8-2-400x445.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5165\" src=\"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/screenshot-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2112\" height=\"1154\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/screenshot-5.png 2112w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/screenshot-5-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/screenshot-5-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/screenshot-5-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/screenshot-5-1536x839.png 1536w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/screenshot-5-2048x1119.png 2048w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/screenshot-5-18x10.png 18w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/screenshot-5-1320x721.png 1320w, https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/screenshot-5-600x328.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2112px) 100vw, 2112px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Premium Features \ud83d\udc8e<\/h2>\n<p>The free version of my plugin\u00a0<em>Add to Home Screen WP<\/em> 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!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud83d\udcf2 iOS and Android prompt customization<\/strong>\u00a0: A simple click on\u00a0<em>\u201cAdd to Home Screen\u201d<\/em>\u00a0And presto \u2728, your website is now available on Android smartphones. With the Pro version, you can add a beautiful icon representing your website in the tooltip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u23f3 Loading indicator<\/strong>\u00a0: Add a stylish spinner during page transitions on your Web App for smooth and professional navigation<\/p>\n<p><strong data-start=\"395\" data-end=\"414\">\ud83d\udd04 Pull to Refresh<\/strong>\u00a0: Offer your users a \u201cswipe down\u201d refresh gesture to reload pages, just like in real mobile apps.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-start=\"1072\" data-end=\"1108\">\ud83c\udfa8 Colors &amp; spinner to suit you<\/strong>\u00a0: Customize the top bar and loading indicator with your brand colors.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\ude84 <strong>Bottom navigation bar with Back, Forward and Share buttons<\/strong> : 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 \u201cnative app\u201d feel of your site.<\/p>\n<p><strong data-start=\"889\" data-end=\"916\">\ud83d\udcc8 Installation monitoring<\/strong>\u00a0: 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).<\/p>\n<p><strong>\ud83d\udcbb Full PWA support<\/strong>\u00a0: Transform your website but also your WordPress dashboard into a\u00a0<em>Progressive Web App<\/em>\u00a0fast and fluid.\u26a1 The PWA is a format that allows your site to\u00a0<strong>launch as a mobile app<\/strong>, so as to mimic the behavior of real native applications, but without the cost associated with developing such applications.<\/p>\n<div>Ready to offer this premium experience to your readers? Upgrade to Pro today:<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin: 25px;\"><a style=\"background-color: #f39c12; color: white; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/tulipemedia.com\/en\/product\/aths-wordpress-premium\/\">Get the Premium version of the plugin<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Did this plugin help you?<\/h2>\n<p>Please let me know on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=iPhone%2CiPad%2CiOS%2CApple&amp;original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fabout%2Fresources%2Fbuttons&amp;text=J%27utilise%20le%20%23plugin%20%23WordPress%20Add%20to%20Home%20Screen%20WP%20par%20%40tulipemedia&amp;tw_p=tweetbutton&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftulipemedia.com%2Fadd-to-home-screen-wordpress-plugin%2F&amp;via=tulipemedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>by sharing this article on X<\/strong><\/a>, and if you have 10 seconds, <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/add-to-home-screen-wp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>rate it on WordPress<\/strong><\/a>, it&#039;s always nice ^^<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u00e9l\u00e9chargez la derni\u00e8re version de mon extension WordPress \u00ab\u00a0Add to Home Screen &amp; Progressive Web App\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e0 nouveau disponible sur WordPress, et cod\u00e9e sur la base de l&rsquo;excellent script \u00ab\u00a0Add to home screen\u00a0\u00bb de Cubiq.org (en licence MIT). 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