How To Make WordPress Sidebar Widget Sticky

Most of our readers are WordPress beginners. Some of our folks got asked how to make WordPress sidebar widget sticky. That’s not a big deal. You can do it without knowing any coding!

In this post, we are going to show you how can you make your WordPress widget sticky and improve viewability.

When You Need To Make Widget Sticky?

Most of us are monetizing the website using display advertisements like Google AdSense and Media.net. If you are, for maximum viewability and conversion, you can make your ad widget sticky.

Some folks are accepting sponsored banners on their website. For maximum viewability, you need to make the banner widget sticky.

How To Make WordPress Sidebar Widget Sticky

First of all, go to your WordPress dashboard and widgets section. You can see all the widgets under the appearance menu.

In my case, I don’t have any widgets in my primary sidebar. So, I am going to add a recent posts widgets there.

So that part is done! Right now, the widget is not in a fixed state. Let’s make it a sticky one.

Go to add new plugins section, search for the Q2W3 Fixed Widget plugin. Install the plugin in your blog.

Q2W3 Fixed Widget Pros

Free.Simple.

Once you got installed the plugin, you need to activate it.

You can see the plugin’s settings under the appearance menu. At this time, you don’t need to configure any settings.

Again, go to the widgets section. You can see a new option called fixed widget. Enable it and update the widget.

You can see the widget is fixed! You can use any optin form like OptinMonster fixed by using this plugin. That’s how you can grow the email list.

If you got a bunch of widgets, don’t make all of the widgets sticky! Just make the last widget sticky.

Also, in the plugin settings, you can configure the styling. It must be according to your current theme styling.

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