Sticky sidebar widget that scrolls to fit content

Hi Sebastian,

Thanks for reaching out.

I am still not sure what exactly you would like to accomplish. The widgets are sticky. Do you expect them to stick at a different position or to become smaller?

Thanks,
Thomas

The sidebar widget is too long and does not fit the screen completely, so if it does not fit the screen I want it be sticky when the bottom of the widget appears in the screen.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Wveb0a4p8QvQZn8wNfn1cRFhrBS_wMxG/view?usp=sharing

As you can see in the gif, the button can’t appear on the screen, so I would like it to scroll until the end of the widget is in the screen and stay sticky there.

Hope that makes it clearer, please let me know if it’s not.

Thanks in regards

Sebastian

Hi Sebastian,

Thanks for confirming this. Unfortunately, there is no option to choose whether to stick the top of bottom of the widget. I cannot offer an alternative right now, but have logged this as a feature request internally to look into.

I know this is not a perfect solution, but maybe you can make the widget a bit smaller.

Best regards,
Thomas

Yes please do it would make your plugin much better.

It’s very similar actualy to what you see in the wordpress admin interface.

When the sidebar is too long, it doesn’t stay sticky on top. It scrolls until the latest item is visible, and the sticks there.

Once you scroll up again it goes back and stays sticky on the top.

Hope this makes it clear, and looking forward for this feature.

Thanks in regards.

Sebastian.

Yes, that’s also my issue. I love the plugin, and I am using it for a table of contents. When the list is long, only the top part will be shown and you can never jump to the bottom items.

Hi @tathros, thanks for your feedback. How exactly should Fixed Widgets behave here? Are you looking for additional options?

Thanks,
Thomas

Hi Thomas,

I guess what I would love to see is the possibility to move the sticky menu independently of the body content. My problem is that my Table of Contents are sometimes longer than the screen and I cannot jump to a lower chapter because it just doesn’t show in the sidebar.

But I guess that is against the logic of a fixed widget?

An example of this is available right in the WordPress dashboard.

If you have many plugins installed the sidebar will scroll until the latest item appears at the bottom of the screen.