NEW 2019 UPDATE !!! The Add to home screen WP Plugin now 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 SuperPWA 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 and Play Store. 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 iPhone/iPod touch, iPhone 5, iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPhone 8, iPhone X, iPhone XR and iPad. Demo See...
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Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found PHP error/s while activating this plugin on our server
No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
Latest PHP 7.2.16 compatible The latest version of the plugin is not compatible with the latest PHP version
Latest WordPress 5.4 compatible The latest version of the plugin is not compatible with the latest PHP version
Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
Frequently updated The plugin was not updated at least once in the last 90 days
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All the scripts run on a VPS with 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Google Cloud VM instances, one site/plugin per instance. The machine type is n1-standard-1. The server is a 8 core CPU with 8GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 7.2.16 & WordPress 5.4.
The database server is MySQL 8.0.15 and the default PHP memory limit is 256MB.
NEW 2019 UPDATE !!! The Add to home screen WP Plugin now 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 SuperPWA for instance, to turn your WordPress blog into a kind of native mobile app, without the constraints....
NEW 2019 UPDATE !!! The Add to home screen WP Plugin now 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 SuperPWA 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 and Play Store.
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 iPhone/iPod touch, iPhone 5, iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPhone 8, iPhone X, iPhone XR and iPad.
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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Performance
Memory Usage
Average memory usage is 24.19 KB
This is less than 99% plugins
Page Speed
Average page loading time is increased by 0.03 s
This is faster than 99% plugins
Speed Test Benchmark Learn more how we collect the data
Before plugin activation
After plugin activation
Pages
Benchmark
Change
Average Change
- 0.03s
/(front page)
- 0.07s
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
- 0.07s
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
- 0.3s
/wp-admin/edit.php
- 0.02s
/wp-admin/index.php
- 0.05s
/wp-admin/media-new.php
- 0.03s
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
- 0.02s
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
- 0.04s
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 0.35s
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 0.01s
/wp-admin/upload.php
- 0.1s
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Memory Usage Benchmark Learn more how we collect the data
Before plugin activation
After plugin activation
Pages
Benchmark
Change
Average Change
+ 24.19KB
/ (front page)
- 12.7KB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php
+ 2.39KB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
+ 2.53KB
/wp-admin/edit.php
+ 2.54KB
/wp-admin/index.php
+ 2.58KB
/wp-admin/media-new.php
+ 10.42KB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php
+ 10.46KB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php
- 1.29KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php
+ 3.4KB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
+ 2.55KB
/wp-admin/upload.php
+ 10.39KB
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User Rating of Add to home screen WP Plugin from WP Hive Users
We found the following errors while activating the plugin. Read more how WP Hive generates this data.
[14-Apr-2020 19:08:28 UTC] PHP Deprecated: screen_icon is deprecated since version 3.8.0 with no alternative available. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 4723
[14-Apr-2020 19:08:28 UTC] PHP Deprecated: get_screen_icon is deprecated since version 3.8.0 with no alternative available. in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 4723
[14-Apr-2020 19:08:28 UTC] PHP Warning: Use of undefined constant drop - assumed 'drop' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /wp-content/plugins/add-to-home-screen-wp/options.php on line 116
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