Back Button Widget for WordPress
Simplify navigation on your WordPress site with the 'Back Button Widget' plugin. This user-friendly tool introduces a versatile "Back" button, enabling visitors to effortlessly return to their previous page, thereby enhancing the overall browsing experience.
Plugin Features
A lightweight addition to your WordPress toolkit, designed to enhance user navigation with a simple yet powerful functionality — a "Back" button that can be added to various locations on your site.
This plugin stands as a convenient tool to streamline your site navigation, facilitating a user-friendly experience as visitors can easily retrace their steps.
With the ease of styling options at your disposal, choose to present it as a simple text or a styled button, adapting to the aesthetics of your site seamlessly.
Find this user-friendly widget in your admin dashboard under “Appearance > Widgets” after enabling the plugin.
Easy "Back" Button Addition in Multiple Locations
Effortlessly add a "Back" button in various parts of your site, whether through a widget, the [alg_back_button] shortcode, or directly in your PHP code with the echo alg_back_button('Back'); function.
This plugin offers the flexibility to place the button in the most suitable locations on your site, enhancing navigation and user convenience.
Customizable Button Styles
Adapt the "Back" button's appearance to fit your site's design. Style it as a simple text link or a more noticeable button.
This customization feature allows the button to seamlessly integrate with your website's theme, maintaining design consistency while offering functional value.
Advanced Placement Options
Add the "Back" button or link as a floating element or within navigation menus.
The floating button option ensures the "Back" button is always accessible, regardless of where the user is on the page, while integration into navigation menus offers a more structured and intuitive navigation solution.
Multilingual Support with WPML Compatibility
Broaden your website's accessibility with the plugin’s WPML compatibility, enabling the translation of the "Back" button for a multilingual audience.
Utilize the [alg_back_button_translate] shortcode to seamlessly integrate the button's translation into different language versions of your site.
This feature ensures that the "Back" button is not only a navigation aid but also a part of your site’s inclusive and global-friendly approach, catering to a diverse user base.
Plugin reviews and statistics
Last updated 2 months ago
1.6.4 - 28/09/2023
- Dev - Escaping output.
1.6.3 - 23/09/2023
- Tested up to: 6.3.
- WP plugin logo, banner updated.
1.6.2 - 08/08/2023
- Contributors updated.
1.6.1 - 13/04/2023
- Dev - Shortcode -
fa_template
attribute added (defaults to%icon%
). - Dev - Shortcode - Optional
before
andafter
attributes added. - Tested up to: 6.2.
1.6.0 - 03/11/2022
- Dev - Plugin is initialized on the
plugins_loaded
action now. - Tested up to: 6.1.
- Readme.txt updated.
- Deploy script added.
1.5.3 - 02/02/2022
- Dev - "Font Awesome" options added ("Load" and "URL").
- Tested up to: 5.9.
1.5.2 - 14/07/2021
- Dev - Shortcode -
show_on_url_param
andshow_on_url_param_value
attributes added.
1.5.1 - 12/07/2021
- Dev - Floating Button - "Set as shortcode" options added.
1.5.0 - 12/07/2021
- Dev - Widget - "Hide on URL param" options added.
- Dev - Shortcode -
hide_on_url_param
andhide_on_url_param_value
attributes added. - Dev - Code refactoring.
1.4.0 - 19/04/2021
- Fix - Menu Options - Replace URL - Option fixed.
- Dev - "Floating Button Options" added.
- Dev - Settings - Major code refactoring.
- Tested up to: 5.7.
1.3.0 - 01/03/2021
- Dev - "Menu Options" added.
- Dev -
type
-href
option added. - Dev - Localisation -
load_plugin_textdomain
moved to theinit
action.
1.2.4 - 11/12/2020
- Dev - Shortcodes -
[alg_back_button]
-fa
(Font Awesome) attribute added. - Tested up to: 5.6.
1.2.3 - 31/08/2020
- Tested up to: 5.5.
1.2.2 - 20/03/2020
- Dev - Shortcodes -
[alg_back_button]
- Language (i.e. translation) attributes (lang
andnot_lang_text
) added. - Dev - Admin action links text updated.
1.2.1 - 03/03/2020
- Dev - Admin action links added.
- Dev - Plugin version is saved in site options now.
1.2.0 - 20/02/2020
- Dev - "Hide on front page" option added.
- Dev - Code refactoring.
- Link to Pro version added.
1.1.2 - 26/11/2019
- Dev - Minor code refactoring.
- Tested up to: 5.3.
1.1.1 - 21/06/2019
- Dev - "Button JS function" option added.
1.1.0 - 05/06/2019
- Dev - Shortcodes are now applied on button label (and
[alg_back_button_translate]
shortcode added). - Tested up to: 5.2.
1.0.1 - 01/03/2019
- Dev - Widget descriptions updated.
- Dev - Standard classes added to buttons.
- Dev - POT file added.
- Dev - readme.txt updated.
1.0.0 - 02/08/2017
- Initial Release.
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