This plugin uses
Add to home screen's Cubiq script to place a floating balloon inviting the user to add a website to their home screen as a standard iOs application.
It's a good way to retain visitors coming to your blog, especially if you don't want to develop an expensive application just to let them read articles of your WordPress blog.
The floating balloon is compatible with all recent iPhones and iPads.
2023 UPDATE : The Add to home screen WP Plugin supports the latest versions of WordPress, and its use with the main Progressive Web App (PWA) extensions is highly recommended.
You can now use a PWA WordPress plugin, like
PWA for WP & AMP for instance, to turn your WordPress blog into a kind of native mobile app, without the constraints of native mobile app (store submission, costs, etc...).
With PWA coupled with Add to home screen WP Plugin, you will be able to display the legendary floating balloon that invites your visitors to add your blog to their iOs device, and then your blog will load as a PWA.
This combination is the best way to increase visitor loyalty, without being obliged to upload a costly native mobile app into App Store.
On Android devices, PWA extensions usually provide a popup to invite users to add your blog to their device. But in iOs devices, this popup are not native. That's why this plugin is very useful in addition of a PWA plugin.
Demo
See nice demo with the video below :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd4i4k_DhE4
Check a demo in my blog (load it on an iPhone for instance).
Read more and documentation on my blog
En savoir plus et lire la documentation sur mon blog
Internationalisation
This plugin provides support for language translations. Help me to translate it by
notifying me in comments and I'll add your mo/po files to the official plugin.
Available languages: English, French and German.
Thanks to
Julian for the German translation!
Features
Thanks to the functions of the Cubiq script, there are many features and allowed customizations:
- Message: type the message that you want inside the floating window. If you don't custom the message, the script checks the user's locale and shows a default message in an appropriate language. You can also force a language.
- Animation: drop, bubble or fade.
- Delays: before showing the message and its duration.
- Expire: minutes before displaying the message again.
- Touch icon: icon of your app but also image while your app is loading.
- Show to returning visitors only: to only target returning visitors and not irritate first time visitors.
Additional features:
- Custom the title of your application.
- Show message on homepage only or on the entire blog.
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1.9
Minor fix.
1.8
Minor fix.
1.7
Minor fix, tested up to WordPress 5.4.
1.6
Little fix.
1.5
Little fix.
1.4
New version tested up to WordPress 5.2.
1.3
Bugs fixed.
1.2
New version tested up to 4.8.1.
Some old functionnalities have been removed.
1.1
Fix for the iOS 7 web app status bar.
German translation added.
1.0
Floating balloon updated for iOS 7.
0.9
New home screen icons and startup screens for all iOs devices (ipad, iPhone 5, etc...).
0.8
Fix bug with "homepage only or all pages" option.
Some little performance improvements.
0.7
Improvement of the bottom navigation bar on Web App: added forward and reload buttons.
Allow using Safari mode in Web App.
Fix bug with the "returningVisitor" function.
0.6
Improvement CSS of the Web App.
Allow opening the balloon on homepage only or all pages.
0.5
Touch startup image that is displayed while the web application launches.
Prevent links switching to Safari browser.
Add navigation bar (back button) in the Web App.
0.4
Allow customizing Web App Title.
0.3
Ability to use device and icon tags when customizing the message.
Allow using apostrophe in custom message.
0.2
Display title of the page.
0.1
First version of the plugin.