Side Menu Lite – Sticky Floating Side Menu
Create a sticky vertical sidebar menu that enhances navigation and highlights important links on your website.
3.9(11 reviews)
·7.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Side Menu Lite is a WordPress nav menu plugin with 7.0K+ active installations and a 3.9/5 rating from 11 reviews. It has been downloaded 146K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.3+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 13% this week. Top alternative: Menu Image, Icons made easy.
3.9/511 reviews
7.0K+active installs
146K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Side Menu Lite is a free and lightweight WordPress plugin that lets you add customizable sticky side menus to the left or right edge of your site. These floating buttons serve as shortcuts, improving site navigation and user engagement.
Perfect for:
– Quick access menus
– Feedback or contact links
– Promotion of offers or calculators
– Integration with popups, modals, and more
✅ Increase engagement with intuitive and accessible navigation.
🌟 Features
- Create unlimited side menus
- Left or right side placement
- Insert custom links
- Open links in a new tab
- Customize icon size and font size
- Add animated icons
- Display menus on specific devices
- Use custom IDs and classes
- Includes 2000+ Font Awesome 6 icons
🔥 Benefits
- Highlight essential actions, links, or pages
- Combine…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Easy to use
by rakhmatichsan·1 year ago·1 reply
Very simple to use and deliver. Thank you very much for the plugin. Worth the paid version if need arise. IMHO.
Removing features without prior notice, breaking the site
by kaedinger·1 year ago·2 replies
Thank you very much for removing a feature without explicit notice, and even breaking my site!
Removing the icons from the free version without announcing beforehand is an ill move. And with the update, the side menu stopped working (just displayed the contents on the bottom of the page) until I went in to the menu configuration, did absolutely nothing and saved. Now it at least shows up again.
The icons are still listed as a feature, though. In the plugin itself, they are listed as a pro feature.
It was fun while it lasted. But how can I ever trust a developer who REMOVES features without prior notice?
great plugin
by acschris·3 years ago
Great plugin
- This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by acschris.
Don`t like it!
by hackoa·3 years ago·2 replies
Link color inherit theme link color and can not use the plugin. No choice between animate and not animate. No option between slide and don’t slide.
But the big problem is the color.
trash
by Smexhy·4 years ago
free version is not usable, you can’t change anything besides text and icon, not even color..not worth it
Download Trends
Today: 64Yesterday: 64This week: 351Period total: 39K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v5.5
59.4%
Other
15.0%
v5.4
13.8%
v5.3
6.4%
v4.2
5.4%
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Changelog
5.5.2
- Fixed: minor bug with Content::create()
- Fixed: minor bug with Settings::option()
- Fixed: grammar error in ListTable
= 5.5.1=
* Updated: Font Awesome library upgraded to version 7.1.
* Updated: wp-color-picker-alpha to version 3.0.4.
Contributors
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