In this guide, we list some of the themes that support the sticky menu and the sticky sidebar that floats on scrolling.
Also, we list some plugins by which you can add support for a sticky menu and a sticky sidebar in any WordPress theme.
Themes with Sticky-Floating Sidebar
PressBook – Single and Double Sticky Sidebars
PressBook is a WordPress magazine theme with double sidebars. The theme supports both single and double sticky sidebars. The sidebars float very smoothly and remain sticky on scrolling.
PressBook theme is a great choice for news, marketing, magazine, blog, or any educational website. Also, this theme comes with multiple page templates and works seamlessly with any page builder plugin.
A variant of this theme known as PressBook News is available with multiple carousel sliders. You can use this news theme to create news portals and educational websites.
With PressBook, you can also add a top banner image with a link in the header area to promote something or to place an ad in an easy way.
This theme is also available as a dark theme which is a variation of the PressBook theme with a dark color scheme.
Oceanly – Single Sticky Sidebar
Oceanly is also a great choice for a theme with a single sidebar that floats on scrolling. The theme supports both the left and the right sidebar.
Oceanly comes with a parallax header image with a search form at the center. Also, the theme comes with SEO-friendly breadcrumbs navigation, a multi-level drop-down menu, and footer widgets.
Themes with Sticky Menu
Galaxis – Sticky Menu and Single Sidebar
Galaxis is one of the great choices for a blog theme with a sticky menu and a sticky sidebar. The theme comes with a top menu and social links along with a primary drop-down navigation menu.
Galaxis also comes with the left and right sidebar that floats with the blog posts. This theme is very lightweight and offers many page templates to choose from.
Sydney – Sticky Menu
Sydney is a business theme that supports a sticky navigation menu. This theme is fully compatible with the Elementor page builder and is great for companies, freelancers, and businesses.
Sydney comes with various customization options like color control, Google fonts, and many more theme options to quickly create an engaging front page for your website.
Plugins to add Support for Sticky Sidebar and Sticky Menu in any Theme
myStickymenu – Sticky Menu on Scroll and Sticky Header
myStickymenu is a plugin for WordPress to make the menu of a theme sticky. This simple plugin is able to make the menu of your theme sticky without any configuration right out of the box.
Also, you can provide a CSS class or ID of the menu element or any header element that you want to make sticky on the scroll.
WP Sticky Sidebar
WP Sticky Sidebar is a WordPress plugin to add support for a floating sidebar on any WordPress theme.
To make use of this plugin, you would need to provide the sidebar CSS selector.
Additionally, this plugin allows you to add top and bottom margins to add up on the sidebar when it floats on scrolling.
Also, you can disable this floating behavior on mobile screen-size devices by specifying the minimum screen width.
Sticky Menu (or anything!) on Scroll
Sticky Menu (or anything!) on Scroll plugin allows you to make any element sticky on your WordPress website as soon as you scroll down to the bottom and the element hits the top area of the viewport.
Using this plugin, you can make any element like the header, menu, logo, or widget sticky regardless of the theme.
