#353 by installs
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails
List the most recent posts with post titles, thumbnails, excerpts, authors, categories, dates and more!
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- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (215)
- Updated
- 21 days ago
Fixed Widget and Sticky Elements for WordPress
More attention and a higher ad performance with fixed sticky widgets.
- Active installs
- 70,000+
- #576 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 2.3M
- 2,302,408
- Downloads, 30 days
- 2K
- 549 in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5
- 262 reviews
- Last updated
- 4 years ago
- Mar 30, 2023
- Version
- 6.2.3
- 56 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | March 30, 2023Not updated for over a year |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 6.2.15Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.2 or newer |
| First published | November 19, 2012 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
Reviews
4.7 / 5 from 262 reviews
| 5 stars | 232 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 12 |
| 3 stars | 4 |
| 2 stars | 2 |
| 1 star | 12 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Use Fixed Widget to create sticky widgets, sticky blocks, and other elements that stay in the visible screen area when a user scrolls the page up or down.
Sticky widgets are more visible than unfixed widgets and therefore have a significantly higher click-through rate.
That’s why this option is worthwhile for ads or other elements that visitors should interact with. Meanwhile, Google also allows the integration of sticky AdSense ads.
- Manual and demo
Features
Fixed Widget is completely free of charge.
- Sticky Widgets Use the Fixed Widget option on any widget and blocks in the sidebar
- Sticky Elements Choose any element on your site and make it sticky
- Margin Top allows you to stop sticky elements to cover floating menu bars
- Margin Bottom pushes sticky elements up before they reach a certain distance towards the bottom window
- Stop Elements push sticky elements up when they are scrolling into view
- Stop Blocks defines blocks in your sidebar that push fixed blocks out of the page
- Minimum Screen Width and Minimum Screen Height allow you to disable sticky behavior on small screens
- Written in plain JavaScript for better performance
Compatibility
Theme requirements:
- wp_head() and wp_footer() functions in header.php and footer.php files
- JavaScript errors could break sticky widgets
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Why is the Fixed Widget plugin not working?
There are several reasons:
- Javascript errors on the page. Commonly caused by buggy plugins. Check javascript console of your browser. If you find errors, try to locate and fix its source.
- No wp_head() and wp_footer() functions in template. Check header.php and footer.php files of your active theme.
- Conflicts with other plugins and scripts
- CSS incompatibility
Is it possible to fix multiple widgets?
Yes, it is possible to fix more than one widget even if they are located in different sidebars.
How can I style a fixed element only while it is sticky?
Fixed elements carry the FixedWidget__fixed_widget__pinned class, which allows developers to change the styling only while the element is fixed.
How to prevent overlapping with the footer?
Go to WP admin area, Appearance -> Fixed Widget. Here you can define the top and bottom margins. Set bottom margin value >= footer height. Check the result, please.
If your footer height is changing from page to page it is better to use the Stop ID option. Here you need to provide the HTML tag ID. The position of that HTML element will determine the margin bottom value.
How to disable the plugin on mobile devices?
Use the options Minimum Screen Width and Minimum Screen Height to disable sticky features when the browser window is too small. You can also use the visitor conditions of Advanced Ads to target specific devices.
Latest changelog entry
- Fix: fixed widget might increase its height when scrolling
Screenshots
A fixed widget and a stop widget in action 
Fixed Widget plugin options 
Fixed Widget options for blocks in the widget editor 
Fixed Widget option for legacy widgets
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.