Add to Home Screen & Progressive Web AppbyZiyad Bachalany

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 nice demo with the video below :

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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Credits

This plugin has been written by Ziyad Bachalany and uses the Add to Home Screen Floating Layer script by Matteo Spinelli that is released under the MIT License (see below).

License

This software is released under the MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2013 Matteo Spinelli, http://cubiq.org/

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