Create a welcome notification bar for your website. Also, My Sticky Bar plugin can make your menu or header sticky to the top when scrolled 📌
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.9 (1.2K)
- Updated
- 3 days ago
Sticky Header Effects for Elementor
The original Elementor sticky header & sticky menu plugin. Transparent, fixed & scroll effects (blur, shrink, hide) on Elementor Free or Pro.
- Active installs
- 300,000+
- #195 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 5.8M
- 5,822,108
- Downloads, 30 days
- 43.4K
- 8.7K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5
- 69 reviews
- Last updated
- 43 days ago
- Sep 18, 2026
- Version
- 2.2.3
- 64 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | September 18, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.3 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | May 26, 2018 |
| Support, last two months | 1 of 1 threads resolved (100%) |
Reviews
4.5 / 5 from 69 reviews
| 5 stars | 49 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 13 |
| 3 stars | 4 |
| 2 stars | 1 |
| 1 star | 2 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
The original Elementor sticky header & sticky menu plugin. Transparent, fixed & scroll effects (blur, shrink, hide) on Elementor Free or Pro.
Sticky Header Effects for Elementor: Build Smart, Responsive Sticky Headers
Sticky Header Effects for Elementor is the plugin for turning any Elementor header into a smart, scroll aware sticky header. Add a sticky menu, a transparent header, a fixed header, and 12 scroll based features like blur, shrink, hide on scroll and color change, all with no code, on Elementor Free or Pro.
Trusted by 300,000+ websites with 5.4 million+ downloads and rated 4.5 stars, it is the sticky header plugin agencies, designers and site owners reach for first.
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Why 300,000+ Sites Choose Sticky Header Effects
- The original. The plugin that made sticky header effects easy for Elementor, refined over years and 5.4M+ downloads.
- Works on Elementor Free. You do not need Elementor Pro. Every free effect runs on Elementor Free or Pro.
- No code. Everything lives in a simple panel inside the Elementor Advanced tab. No CSS, no JavaScript, no snippets.
- Responsive control. Tune behavior and thresholds per device.
- 50+ ready templates. Import a proven header and go live in minutes.
Tested, Maintained, and Supported
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 isn’t the “shrink” effect working?
The header cannot shrink smaller than the objects inside of it.
The “shrink” effect is restricted by the size of the content in the header section, such as logos, images, menus, widgets, and also all of the padding and margins of those elements. This also includes the padding and margins of the sections and columns themselves.
To get the best “shrink” effect use these settings:
Do I need Elementor Pro to use this plugin?
No. This plugin works perfectly with Elementor Free. For navigation menus, you can use the free Nav Menu widget from The Plus Addons for Elementor. You will only need Elementor Pro if you are using Pro Navigation widgets.
Does it work with the Elementor Theme Builder?
Yes. You will find the Sticky Header Effects panel under the Advanced Tab of every Elementor section and container. If you have Elementor Pro, it works on header templates built with the Elementor Pro Theme Builder. On Elementor Free you do not need Elementor Pro to build a custom header either: Nexter Extension includes a Free Theme Builder for headers, and the same Sticky Header Effects apply to those headers too.
Does it work with Elementor’s new Atomic Elements (V4) editor?
Not yet. Atomic Elements is an unreleased Elementor experiment, and atomic elements do not expose the Sticky Header Effects panel. If you have that experiment turned on, build your header with a classic Container and every effect works as normal. Nothing changes for sites on the current Elementor 3.x releases.
Is this a standalone plugin?
No, it requires Elementor Free or Pro. It extends Elementor’s functionality with new header scroll effects.
Is there a Pro version of this plugin?
Yes. Sticky Header Effects for Elementor Pro is a separate add-on plugin that requires this free plugin to be installed and active. It adds Display Conditions, Sticky Until (boundary control), Reveal animations, Header Replace on scroll, Logo Swap, Sticky Menu Styling, extended Backdrop Filter, Background Image on sticky, Opacity transitions, Logo Styling, Multi-Sticky coordination, and a Scroll Progress Bar.
Latest changelog entry
- Added: Back to Top button, a floating scroll-to-top control you can switch on for any sticky header
- Added: Fix Anchor Scroll, so in-page anchor links are no longer hidden behind the sticky header
- Added: Header Effects screen to turn individual free effects on and off
- Improvement: Reworked the dashboard Home screen, now the default landing tab
- Improvement: WordPress Abilities API now covers the new Back to Top and Fix Anchor Scroll effects for AI-assisted demo creation
- Fix: Back to Top button now stays clear of the header’s own scroll transforms
Screenshots
See it in action: the header starts transparent over the hero, then turns solid and shrinks as you scroll. 
No code needed. Turn any Elementor section or container into a sticky header from the Advanced tab. 
12 scroll based features in one panel: transparent, shrink, hide on scroll, blur, and background or logo color change. 
Works on Elementor Free or Pro. Elementor Pro is not required.
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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.