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Free Plugin by hashthemes v1.3.4

Simple Floating Menu

Simple Floating Menu adds a floating sticky bar of icon buttons to your site, with tooltips, in the position and shape you choose.

Simple Floating Menu

The facts

Rating
5★ from 38
Active installs
10k+
Price
Free
Last updated
27 Aug 2026
Added
Mar 2020
Requires WP
6.3
Tested up to
WP 7.0.4
Requires PHP
7.2
Downloads
259,904

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Simple Floating Menu is a free WordPress plugin that adds a floating sticky menu of icon buttons to your site. You can customise the menu with unlimited buttons, choose from various positions on the screen, and select from multiple icon packs and button shapes. The settings can be adjusted from a single screen with a live preview feature, allowing you to see changes in real-time.

This plugin is suitable for users looking to enhance their site's navigation with a visually appealing floating menu. It offers flexibility in design and functionality, making it a good choice for both developers and site owners who want to improve user experience without extensive coding knowledge.

Best for: This plugin suits WordPress users wanting to add a simple, customisable floating menu to their site.

What it does well

  • Offers unlimited buttons for customisation
  • Includes 5 icon packs with over 12,000 icons
  • Allows placement in 8 different screen positions
  • Provides a live preview of changes
  • Translation ready and GDPR compliant

Where it falls short

  • Limited to one floating bar in the free version
  • No animation features available in the free version
  • Premium version offers significantly more options

Verdict

Simple Floating Menu provides a straightforward solution for enhancing site navigation. While it has limitations compared to the premium version, it offers valuable features for free.

From the developer

hashthemes's own description of Simple Floating Menu, lightly tidied.

Simple Floating Menu is a free WordPress plugin that puts a floating sticky menu of icon buttons on your site. Each button gets an icon, a link and a tooltip, and the whole bar can sit anywhere on the screen.

It ships 5 icon packs with more than 12,000 icons between them, and you can add as many buttons as you like. Place the bar in any of 8 positions, run it down the side of the screen or across it, pick from 9 button shapes, and set the tooltip type from over 1,400 Google fonts.

Everything is set from one screen with a live preview beside it, so you can see the bar change as you work.

Want to test the dashboard settings without installing on your website? Test Dashboard Settings Here

Main features

  • 5 icon packs with more than 12,000 icons between them
  • Unlimited buttons
  • Open each link in the same tab or a new one
  • 8 positions on the screen, with your own offset values
  • Run the bar vertically or horizontally
  • 9 button shapes
  • Set button height and width, icon size, icon position and a button shadow
  • Button and icon colours with their own hover colours, plus tooltip background and text colours
  • Over 1,400 Google fonts for the tooltip text, with full typography settings
  • Serve Google fonts from your own server to help with GDPR
  • Link anywhere: pages on your site, external addresses, or an anchor to a section on the same page
  • Turn the menu on and off without deleting your setup
  • Export and import your settings to move a bar from one site to another
  • Live preview beside the settings
  • Hooks for developers
  • Translation ready

Looking for more than one bar?

Super Floating & Flying Menu is the premium version of this plugin. It keeps everything above and adds side panel menus, full screen menus, one page navigation and a library of over 100 ready made designs. Here is how the two compare.

  • Menus — Free: one floating bar. Premium: as many menus as you like, each with its own design and its own rules.
  • Ready made designs — Free: none, you build the bar yourself. Premium: over 100 menus to import in one click and edit as your own.
  • Kinds of menu — Free: a floating bar. Premium: floating bars, quarter, half and full circular fans, a one page navigation indicator, side panels, skew panels, full screen menus and navigation icon menus.
  • Submenus — Free: a flat row of buttons. Premium: submenus up to three levels deep.
  • Icons — Free: 5 packs, 12,000+ icons. Premium: 7 sets, 13,000+ icons, animated hamburger icons, or your own images.
  • Animation — Free: none. Premium: 12 ways for the bar to appear, 29 hover and 12 idle animations for the buttons, and 37 entrance and 37 exit animations for panels.
  • Where it appears — Free: on every page. Premium: chosen pages, post types, archives, search and 404, by login state, by user role, by device and by language.
  • When it appears — Free: always. Premium: after the visitor scrolls, hidden again while they scroll down, or on a schedule of dates and weekdays.
  • Panel contents — Free: buttons and tooltips. Premium: a header logo, a search form, a social row, footer text, item descriptions and badges, or a panel built in Elementor.
  • Moving a setup — Free: export and import your settings. Premium: export, import and duplicate any single menu, including duplicating it as the other menu type.

Get Super Floating & Flying Menu | See the demos

Premium Upgrade

The comparison is on the Description tab. This is the longer list of what Super Floating & Flying Menu gives you.

Everything in the premium version

  • Over 100 ready made menus you can import with one click, then edit as your own
  • Build menus without touching Appearance > Menus: each menu is its own item, with a builder screen for its items and settings side by side
  • Unlimited menus on one site, each with its own design and its own display rules
  • 14 floating bar layouts, including quarter, half and full circular fans and a one page navigation indicator with 13 styles
  • Side panel, skew side panel, full screen and navigation icon menus, with submenus up to three levels deep
  • Panels with a colour, image or video background, a header logo, a search form, a social row and your own footer text
  • 7 icon packs with more than 13,000 icons, or upload your own image icons
  • 11 button shapes and 12 show and hide animations for the bar
  • 29 button hover animations and 12 idle animations to draw the eye
  • 37 panel entrance and 37 exit animations, plus 6 wave animations for full screen menus
  • Set the colours of every button in one place instead of one at a time, and give the tooltips their own hover colours
  • Show a menu only after the visitor scrolls, and hide it again while they scroll down
  • Schedule a menu by date range and by days of the week, for offers that run themselves
  • Show or hide a menu by page, post type, archive, login state or user role
  • Hide a menu on desktop, tablet or mobile
  • Build the panel contents with Elementor if you prefer a page builder
  • Over 1,400 Google fonts with full typography settings on every text element
  • Import, export and duplicate any menu, including duplicating it as the other menu type
  • RTL ready and multilingual ready, tested with Polylang and WPML

Buy Super Floating & Flying Menu | See the demos

Pre sales questions are welcome at support@hashthemes.com

Read the full description on the official page →

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