Advanced Scrollbar – Give Your Site a Sleek Branded Scrolling Feel
Replace the default browser scrollbar with a branded, beautifully styled one – and add eye-catching cursor and click effects – without writing a single line of code. Advanced Scrollbar | Pricing | Support | Live Demo Why Advanced Scrollbar? The default scrollbar is the one part of your site you never designed. Advanced Scrollbar is a lightweight WordPress plugin that lets you customize scrollbar color, width, background, speed, and alignment so scrolling matches the rest of your brand – no coding required. It works with all major browsers and WordPress themes, so whether you prefer subtle styling tweaks or vibrant animated effects, you can polish navigation site-wide in minutes. It is especially useful for content-heavy pages with long scroll areas. Free Features 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 side of the page. Cursor Shapes: Follow, Dot, Blob, and Elastic cursor styles. Click Effects: Spark, Spark Simple, and Starburst animations on click. Flexible Application Modes: Apply styles site-wide from the dashboard, or per page/post directly in the WordPress editor – great for campaigns or featured content. Touch-Friendly: Enable optimized scrolling for touch devices. Lightweight & Universal: Ad-free, powered by jQuery, works across browsers and themes. Pro Version The Advanced Scrollbar Pro version adds advanced design options, premium effects, and enhanced controls to give your scrollbar a unique look and feel. Pro features include: 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! How to Use Advanced Scrollbar – Quick Start Install and activate the plugin. Go to Settings → Advanced Scrollbar. Customize scrollbar and cursor styles in the settings panel. Save changes and enjoy your new scrolling experience. Live Demo | Try the Pro Version Use Cases Content-heavy pages: Improve the scrolling experience on long-form articles and documentation. Brand consistency: Match the scrollbar to your site’s color palette and design language. Campaign pages: Apply unique cursor and click effects to specific pages or posts for featured content. Modern portfolios: Add subtle motion and polish that makes a design-focused site feel finished. Like the plugin? Missing a feature? Send your feedback – we ship improvements regularly. Check out our other WordPress Plugins- Html5 Video Player – Display videos as single and playlist in multiple skins. PDF Poster – Display/Embed PDF files with different styles. Html5 Audio Player – Listen audios with awesome visuals. StreamCast – Customizable radio player with different skins. 3D Viewer – Embed 3D models and 3D products with interaction. Advanced Post Block – Show posts and custom posts in different layouts. 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
Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN
Compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load automatically with the powerful Smush image optimizer to keep your WordPress site fast, without losing quality. Smush makes it easy to optimize images, compress images, and deliver images faster across your entire WordPress site. This all-in-one image optimizer automatically reduces image file sizes, enables image lazy load, and serves modern formats like WebP and AVIF, all without breaking image quality or adding extra work. Whether you’re running a blog, store, or portfolio, Smush helps you optimize images at scale and keep your site fast with a trusted WordPress image optimizer. Trusted by 1+ Million Sites | 4.8/5 Star Rating Get everything you need to optimize images and speed up your site. Smush works out of the box with no complicated setup – just install and let it handle the rest. Compress images without losing quality Reduce image file size automatically while keeping your images sharp and clear. Smush is an easy-to-use image optimizer which let’s you compress images using both lossless and lossy compression, giving you the best balance of quality and performance without extra work. You can also compress images outside the media library using Directory Smush, making it easy to optimize images stored in theme folders, plugins, or other directories on your server. Lazy load images for faster pages Enable image lazy load across your site so images load only when needed. This image optimizer improves initial page speed and creates a smoother experience for visitors without extra configuration. Serve WebP and AVIF images automatically (PRO) Convert images to WebP and AVIF and serve them automatically to supported browsers. Smush helps you optimize images using next-gen formats to reduce file size and improve load times across your WordPress site. Deliver images faster with an Image CDN (PRO) Serve images through a global image CDN to reduce latency and improve load times for visitors around the world. 119 global CDN servers Up to 500 GB of bandwidth Faster image delivery based on visitor location Improved performance for image-heavy and high-traffic sites Automatically resize and fix image dimensions (PRO) Eliminate common PageSpeed warnings and improve layout stability with automatic image sizing. Smush dynamically resizes images to perfectly fit their containers, regardless of original size, helping fix the “Properly size images” warning in Google PageSpeed Insights. It also automatically adds missing width and height attributes to your images, improving rendering speed and reducing layout shifts. This helps you meet the “Ensure images have explicit width and height” recommendation without any manual work. Optimize your entire site, automatically Smush works across your whole site as a powerful image optimizer to optimize images as you upload them and maintain performance over time without manual work. Optimize images automatically on upload Compress images in bulk or individually Works with your existing media library No need to re-upload images Enable image lazy load across your site Convert images to WebP and AVIF Deliver images with an integrated image CDN Automatically resize and serve correctly sized images Optimize images outside the media library with Directory Smush Built for performance Smush improves page speed and overall performance by reducing image weight and improving how images are delivered. Reduce page load times Improve user experience Better performance for image-heavy pages Supports image lazy load and preload images (PRO) for faster perceived performance Works with your existing setup Smush is built to work with your current WordPress setup, including popular themes, page builders, and plugins. Compatible with Gutenberg, Elementor, WPBakery, and more Works with WooCommerce stores No need to change your workflow Easy to enable and configure Designed to be simple You don’t need to be a performance expert to optimize images with Smush image optimizer. Works out of the box Simple settings when you need them No technical knowledge required Safe to use on any site Why choose Smush? There are plenty of image optimization plugins, but Smush focuses on making it easy to optimize images, compress images, and improve performance without complexity. As a leading WordPress image optimizer, Smush gives you powerful optimization tools without the technical hassle. Trusted by over 1 million WordPress users Built specifically for WordPress Regular updates and improvements Backed by the WPMU DEV team Get started in minutes Install Smush, activate it, and start to compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load right away. This easy-to-use image optimizer helps most sites see improvements immediately without changing how they upload or manage images. About Us WPMU DEV is a premium supplier of quality WordPress plugins, services and support. Learn more here: https://wpmudev.com/ Don’t forget to stay up to date on everything WordPress from the Internet’s number one resource: WPMU DEV Blog Hey, one more thing… we hope you enjoy our free offerings as much as we’ve loved making them for you! Contact and Credits Originally written by Alex Dunae at Dialect (dialect.ca, e-mail ‘alex’ at ‘dialect dot ca’), 2008-11.
