How to Make WordPress Widget Sticky – Sticky Sidebar Plugin

Floating widgets in the sidebar floats and sticky widgets are stuck with the sidebar. You may ever see on a few blogs that when you scroll down any page, on the sidebar, the widget or ads banner will stick and float to the bottom of the page.

If your blog post is too long, sometimes there is nothing in the sidebar and you can do nothing for them because all your sidebar ads are limited to three, four, or maximum widgets that your blog’s homepage can have. However sticky floating sidebar allows you to get rid of this kind of thing and you can show banner ads on your blog’s sidebar when users scroll down to the bottom of the page.

A sticky floating sidebar helps in increasing conversation rates for affiliate marketers. If you are creating an email opt-in list and want more subscribers, you can use the floating widget for the email opt-in form which will also help in increasing your email subscribers.

There is a WordPress Plugin with Q2W3 Fixed Widget name that helps you to create a sticky floating sidebar for your blog and you can use it not only for email opt-in forms but it can work with most of the sidebar widgets like product promotions, popular posts, and many more.

How to Use Q2W3 Fixed Widget Plugin

How to Use Q2W3 Fixed Widget Plugin

  • Go to Q2W3 Fixed Widget (Sticky Widget) and Install it on your blog.(See also: How to Install WordPress Plugin.)
  • Now to Appearance > Widget and select which widget you want to make WordPress widget sticky.
  • On the Widget option, you will see the Fixed Widget checkbox, check the box.
  • Make sure you are only checking the box, that you want to make sticky.

You can also configure the positioning of that Sticky Widget plugin. To configure the positioning of Q2W3 Fixed Widget, just Go to Appearance » Fixed Widget Options. Here on this page, you can also configure margins or add your HTML IDs to the WordPress Floating Sidebar configuration.

Fixed Widget Options Configuration

So do you think it’s a good idea to make the WordPress Sidebar sticky? Do you use any other plugin to make the widget sticky?

If you don’t want to spend much more time on the user UX & UI of your website, you can hire an expert from our recommended list to get the task done for you.

One Comment

  1. Nice informative post, I was searching for one like that as I have long articles on my site and some time when users scroll down the side bar remains empty this will surly help me to keep my visitors engaged. Thanks for sharing.

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