描述
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 with popups or calculators for more conversions
- Boost user experience and retention
- Great for both desktop and mobile
🚀 Upgrade to Pro
Unlock powerful features with Side Menu Pro:
- Submenus for better organization
- Extended Labels & Hold Label Open
- Translate link
- Share link (30+ social platforms)
- Next/Previous post navigation
- Smooth scroll / Scroll to top or bottom
- ScrollSpy
- Print page
- Built-in search
- One-click call / Email / Bookmark
- Login / Register / Logout / Recover password
- Visibility by scroll position
- Visibility by timer delay
- Activate by URL
- Activate by Referrer URL
- Multilingual Support
- Add emoji or letter icons
- Upload custom icons
- Full visibility control (page types, categories, shortcodes)
- Show menu by device, language, user role
- Schedule menu appearance (by date, time, day)
- Browser compatibility rules
🎥 Demo Pro
🔗 Complementary Plugins
Maximize functionality by combining with these free tools:
🧭 Related Menu Plugins
- Floating Button – Floating call-to-action buttons
- Sticky Buttons – Floating multi-action sticky buttons
- Bubble Menu – Circular floating menu with icons
- Float Menu – Customizable vertical float menu
📩 Support
Need help? Visit our Support Forum for quick answers and assistance.
螢幕截圖
安裝
📌 Option 1: Install via WordPress Admin
- Go to your WordPress dashboard
Plugins
Add New
. - Search for Side Menu Lite.
- Click Install Now, then click Activate.
- Navigate to the new
Side Menu Lite
section in your dashboard menu. - Click Add New to create your first menu.
- Customize your menu settings and click Save.
📌 Option 2: Manual Upload
- Download the plugin ZIP file from wordpress.org.
- Go to
Plugins
Add New
Upload Plugin
. - Upload the ZIP file and click Install Now.
- Click Activate once the installation is complete.
- Create and manage side menus from the
Side Menu Lite
section in the dashboard.
📌 Option 3: Install via FTP
- Download and unzip the plugin ZIP file.
- Upload the extracted
side-menu-lite
folder to/wp-content/plugins/
via FTP. - Go to
Plugins
in your dashboard and click Activate next to Side Menu Lite.
常見問題
-
This is usually caused by caching. Try the following steps:
- Clear your browser cache – Press
Ctrl + Shift + R
(Windows) orCmd + Shift + R
(Mac). - Purge your WordPress cache – Use your caching plugin (e.g., WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, LiteSpeed Cache) to clear the cache.
- Clear server/hosting cache – Clear cache from your hosting panel (Cloudflare, SiteGround, etc.).
- Temporarily disable caching plugins – If the menu still doesn’t show, disable caching plugins to confirm the issue.
- Clear your browser cache – Press
-
Check if Test Mode is enabled. When active, the menu is only visible to administrators. Disable Test Mode to show it to all visitors.
-
Yes! In the Lite version, you can:
– Display the menu sitewide on all pages.
– Use the shortcode[Side-Menu id="1"]
to manually insert the menu on specific pages or posts.The Pro version allows you to display menus by post types, taxonomies, user roles, languages, and more.
-
Yes. You can position the menu on the left or right side of the screen from the settings panel.
-
Absolutely. You can create multiple side menus and display them independently using shortcodes or display rules.
-
Yes, but don’t network-activate the plugin. Instead, activate Side Menu Lite on each site where you want to use it.
-
No. The plugin is lightweight and optimized for speed, ensuring it won’t affect your site’s performance.
評價
貢獻者及開發者
修改日誌
5.4.1
- Updated: Helpful links added to the settings page.
- Updated:
wp-color-picker-alpha
upgraded to version 3.0.4.
5.4
- Added: Option to disable the
notranslate
class.
5.3.2
- Fixed: Function verification improvements.
5.3.1
- Updated: Font Awesome icons to version 6.7.1.
- Fixed: Minor activation bug.
5.3
- Added:
aria-label
attribute for better accessibility. - Updated: Plugin icon.
- Updated: Small UI improvements.
- Fixed: Various minor bugs.
5.2.2
- Changed: Touch rule logic.
- Fixed: Improved keyboard accessibility.
- Fixed: Minor escaping issues.
5.2.1
- Fixed: Icon font inclusion on pages using shortcode.
5.2
- Added: Icon category support.
- Improved: FontIconPicker functionality.
- Fixed: Conflicts with FontIconPicker module.
- Fixed: Menu item status saving.
- Fixed: CodeMirror initialization.
5.1.1
- Fixed: FontPicker icon style issue.
5.1
- Added: Dashboard visibility control by user roles.
- Updated: Font Awesome to version 6.6.
- Fixed: Icon picker search issues.
5.0
🚀 Major Update
* Added: Icon animation support.
* Added: Vertical alignment and offset options for menu positioning.
* Added: More menu styling options.
* Added: Tags and link tracking options.
* Improved: Refreshed admin interface for better usability.
4.2.1
- Fixed: Nonce verification bug.
4.2
- Added: Touch function support for mobile.
- Changed: Admin styling improvements.
4.1.2
- Fixed: Ability to add special link types.
4.1.1
- Fixed: Compatibility with PHP 8.2 dynamic properties.
4.1
- Updated: Font Awesome icons to version 6.4.2.
4.0.2
- Fixed: Minor bug with page list handling.
4.0.1
- Fixed: Various minor issues.
4.0
🚀 Major Update
* Added: Custom color and background options for items.
* Added: Export/Import functionality for menus.
* Improved: General plugin styling.
* Updated: Font Awesome to version 6.1.2.
3.1
- Added:
rel
attribute support for menu links.
3.0.1
- Fixed: Issue with overlapping menu elements.
3.0
- Updated: Admin interface style.
- Added: Menu deactivation option.
- Added: “Test mode” feature (admin-only visibility).
2.2.6 – 2.2.1
- Fixed: Various minor bugs and code cleanups.
2.2
- Updated: Font Awesome to version 5.15.3.
2.1.1
- Fixed: Bug when removing menu items.
2.1
- Updated: Font Awesome to version 5.14.
- Fixed: Various bugs.
2.0
- Updated: Font Awesome icons.
- Optimized plugin code.
1.0
🎉 Initial release.