Skip to content A floating widget in a sidebar of a WordPress site is very useful if you’re trying to catch the attention of the readers or visitors. By making specific widget like a subscribe form for your newsletter always visible even the users scroll your site up to the bottom part, you have a big chance to get more subscribers compare to non-sticky subscribe form.
You can also put your social profile in a sticky widget to make it always visible and acquire more likes and followers.
How to create a sticky widget
Creating sticky or floating widget is simple using a free WordPress plugin called Q2W3 Fixed Widget (Sticky Widget). Follow the instructions below.
- Download, install and activate the Q2W3 Fixed Widget (Sticky Widget) plugin
- After you activate this plugin got to Appearance > Widgets and you can now see a checkbox at the bottom of every widget in your sidebar that you can easily tick and save to make it sticky.
- If you want to customize the margins of your sticky widget this plugin comes with options that you can easily alter. Go to Appearance > Fixed Widget Options and configure the plugin to whatever you like.
Note: According to the author the plugin is not working with all themes, to make this plugin work your theme must have the following:
- jQuery 1.7 required. jQuery 1.8.3 (or later) is recommended.
- No JavaScript errors, coused by other plugins and scripts.
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