When you write a long post, visitors came to your site read post and leave it. Most of the times, they didn’t look at sidebar widgets and when they are at the bottom of the post your sidebar was out of their screen. To engage the visitors attention into the sidebar, webmasters make the widgets sticky because Floating elements that stick to the screen as visitors scroll tend to have a higher click-through and conversion rate than static objects. In this article, you will learn how to create a sticky floating sidebar widget in WordPress.
How to Create a Floating “Sticky” Sidebar Widget in WordPress
You can use sticky sidebar widget to stick your Adsense code to increase CTR, Get more subscriber by Sticky Subscription Form, Sticky Social Widget for more Like and use for any product promotions to grab attention of visitors .
First you need to install the plugin Q2W3 Fixed Widget. If you are a newbie this article helps you How to install plugin in WordPress. After installing and activating the plugin just go to Appearance>>Widgets and select the Widget that you want to make sticky. Here you will find an option Fixed widget in your widget looks like the below image.
Check the box of Fixed widget and save, Your widget will become floating sticky when you scroll the page.
You can configure the position of floating Sticky widget by go to Appearence>>Fixed Widget Options. Here you find the options to configure Top margin, Bottom margin etc. looks like the below image.
Margin Top and Bottoms: These properties defines the verticle position of your floating widgets.
Refresh Interval: If your theme uses dynamic content such as lazy load, infinite scroll, and other javascript based elements, You can Change this. If you don’t have dynamic content, this can be set to zero.
Others options don’t need to change and work out of the box.
You Have all done. You can make any number of widgets sticky in your sidebar And increase conversation rate of your site user by promote content in floating sidebar.