People visit your site to read the posts, Not to see the widgets. Most of the time they open the post, scroll & read the content and left. When they are at the bottom of the post your sidebar was out of their screen. And you don’t get any benefit from it. I know you put many widgets there!
One of the best way to get benefit from your widgets is make one of your widget STICKY that scroll with user.
For example you want more subscribers then just make your Subscription Form sticky.
Now you can make a Sticky Widget by using Q2W3 Fixed Widget WordPress plugin. Before we move to the plugin configuration here are some benefits of Using this Plugin
- You an stick Google Ads to increase CTR
- You can stick your Subscription form to get more subscriber.
- You can stick Facebook/Google Plus Widget for more Like.
- You can stick Popular post to decrease bounce rate.
- You can stick any offers to generate Revenue.
Or whatever you want. Even you can make 2 widget sticky.
To Setup the plugin Follow the Simple Steps:
1. Go to Dashboard and click on Plugins > Add new.
2. Type ‘Q2W3 Fixed Widget’ in search bar and Click on Search Plugins. ( You can download it from here)
3. Very first result will be this Plugin.
4. Click on Install Now and Active your Plugin.
5. Once you’ve active this plugin, Go to Appearance -> Widgets, enable “Fixed Widget” option on any active widget.
Margin Top: This property defines the vertical distance from the top border edge of an element to the edge of its containing block
Margin Bottom: This property defines the vertical distance from the bottom border edge of the element concerned to the edge of its containing block.
Optimize margin bottom properly to prevent widget overlapping with the footer.
6. Now time to make your Widget Sticky. Just select the Widget which you want make sticky and you’ll find enable “Fixed widget” option.
Once you’ve enable the ‘Fixed Widget’ option your Widget will be Sticky. Now visitors will see your sticky widget when they scroll. Hope this plugin will help you get benefit from your sidebar.
Update : The last version (2.1) has new option for disabling plugin on mobile devices.
Here are two nice widgets for your Sidebar:
So do you think it’s a good idea to make widget sticky? Do you use any other plugin to make widget sticky?
Helpful. Thank you Istiak. Have started using the plugin on MyBlogIsMyMoney.Com – lets see if it works out well?
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Let me know it works or not.
That’s a cool tips Rayhan! I was thinking for couple of weeks to do this but couldn’t find a plugin for that. I am gonna surely apply it soon. Using it with adsense seems more appealing. However is it compatible with Adsense policy to stick ads?
Glad to know that you find this post useful. On the Adsense issue,I think it won’t be a problem. I noticed that 9gag.com sticks Adsense ads in their sidebar.
That’s really great. Will check it out.
This is a great plugin. I also use this plugin for my blog.
Hi Istiak,
This looks like a great plugin that will benefit everyone that uses it.
You make a good point that as our readers get to the end of our posts they no longer see our sidebars so this is really going to help.
Thanks for the detailed explanation of how to set it up
Have a great week my friend,
Barry
That’s really a great tips Istiak, Thanks for sharing. I think I should apply this on my blog. let’s how it will be helpful to me.
Never heard about this plugin, thanks Istiak for sharing.
Will definitely try out.
~@Khajamoin1
Thanks Istiyak.
This method absolutely useful for monetizing blog. And glad you share it here
That’s a great widget. Thanks for sharing with us.
I tried this plugin, and it works great. Unfortunately if it use it on my left sidebar then it rolls down over my content on mobile devices
Anybody know how to fix?
Hey Randy, Sorry to hear that this plugin messed over your content on mobile devices. I think it’s a better idea to submit your problem to the developer’s support page of this plugin. Here is the support page: http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/q2w3-fixed-widget
Hope they will solve your problem.
Hi!
I am the developer of the Sticky Widget plugin. Found this post in Google )
One thing to note. The last version (2.1) has new option for disabling plugin on mobile devices. You may try it again )
Hey Max,
Thanks for the update. I have added the information in the post.
Hey thanks for this article it was very help full , i got my Sticky Sidebar jejeje
That was a good! Do you have any plugin for Blogger?
Blogger doesn’t have the option to use plugin. But you can do it via coding.
Hello bro, I have tried this plugin but it is not working on my blog. I have latest wordpress and I think it’s compatible with it. But even after selecting a widget to get fixed, it is not displaying that widget after scrolling.