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Swifty Bar, sticky bar by WPGens
Adds sticky bar at the bottom of post that shows category,post title, author, time needed to read article, share buttons and previous/next post links
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 48
- Active installs
- 400+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 10 Sep 2023
- Added
- Jul 2015
- Requires WP
- 3.0
- Tested up to
- WP 6.3.10
- Downloads
- 34,419
Our analysis
AI-assistedSwifty Bar is a WordPress plugin that adds a sticky bar at the bottom of posts, enhancing user engagement. It displays the post's category, title, author, estimated reading time, share buttons with share counts, and links to previous and next posts. The plugin is designed to improve the reader's experience by consolidating various features into one accessible bar.
This plugin is suitable for website owners looking to increase interaction on their posts, particularly in the bookstore and publishing niches. With its lightweight design, it aims to maintain site speed while providing valuable information and sharing options to visitors.
Best for: Website owners in the bookstore and publishing sectors seeking to enhance user engagement.
What it does well
- ✓Displays post category, title, and author information
- ✓Shows estimated reading time for articles
- ✓Includes share buttons for popular social networks
- ✓Features previous/next post links with previews
- ✓Customisable admin panel for module adjustments
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on advanced features or customisation options
Verdict
Swifty Bar offers a straightforward solution for improving post interaction with a range of useful features, making it a practical choice for content-focused sites.
From the developer
Goran87's own description of Swifty Bar, sticky bar by WPGens, lightly tidied.
Boost your user engagement!
As featured on wpbegginer, elegantthemes as top10 plugins of 2015, and on product hunt as product of the day.
Swifty bar will adds sticky bar at the bottom of post that shows category, post title, author, time needed to read article, share buttons together with share count, and previous/next post links. This plugin can easily replace your social share buttons while giving readers better experience with much more options. Its fast, coded with best practice, super light and will not slow down your site.
Check out demo here
Major features in Swifty Bar include:
- Shows current post category, post title and authors first and last name.
- Shows estimated time that is needed for visitor to read your article.
- Share buttons for most popular social networks (new ones comming soon).
- Number of Comments and click to scroll to comment form.
- Previous/Next Post Links with nice preview on hover.
- Super light, clean code that will not slow down your site.
- Admin Panel to customize each module.
- Supports custom post types.
- Multiple colors and two type of icons
- Share counter
Share Count in 1.2!
We introduced share count in latest version of swifty bar. We are saving share counts inside WP Transients to keep things fast and fetching new shares once user clicks on any of the share icons, if no clicks have been made, share will refresh once daily, that way site is doing minimal requests to the share APIs which boosts its speed by ALOT.
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If you have any suggestions/feedback to improve Swifty Bar, please get in touch with me via email goranefbl@gmail.com .
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