Simple Floating Menu

Description

Simple Floating Menu is a free WordPress plugin that puts a floating sticky menu of icon buttons on your site. Each button gets an icon, a link and a tooltip, and the whole bar can sit anywhere on the screen.

It ships 5 icon packs with more than 12,000 icons between them, and you can add as many buttons as you like. Place the bar in any of 8 positions, run it down the side of the screen or across it, pick from 9 button shapes, and set the tooltip type from over 1,400 Google fonts.

Everything is set from one screen with a live preview beside it, so you can see the bar change as you work.

Want to test the dashboard settings without installing on your website? Test Dashboard Settings Here

Main features

  • 5 icon packs with more than 12,000 icons between them
  • Unlimited buttons
  • Open each link in the same tab or a new one
  • 8 positions on the screen, with your own offset values
  • Run the bar vertically or horizontally
  • 9 button shapes
  • Set button height and width, icon size, icon position and a button shadow
  • Button and icon colours with their own hover colours, plus tooltip background and text colours
  • Over 1,400 Google fonts for the tooltip text, with full typography settings
  • Serve Google fonts from your own server to help with GDPR
  • Link anywhere: pages on your site, external addresses, or an anchor to a section on the same page
  • Turn the menu on and off without deleting your setup
  • Export and import your settings to move a bar from one site to another
  • Live preview beside the settings
  • Hooks for developers
  • Translation ready

Looking for more than one bar?

Super Floating & Flying Menu is the premium version of this plugin. It keeps everything above and adds side panel menus, full screen menus, one page navigation and a library of over 100 ready made designs. Here is how the two compare.

  • Menus — Free: one floating bar. Premium: as many menus as you like, each with its own design and its own rules.
  • Ready made designs — Free: none, you build the bar yourself. Premium: over 100 menus to import in one click and edit as your own.
  • Kinds of menu — Free: a floating bar. Premium: floating bars, quarter, half and full circular fans, a one page navigation indicator, side panels, skew panels, full screen menus and navigation icon menus.
  • Submenus — Free: a flat row of buttons. Premium: submenus up to three levels deep.
  • Icons — Free: 5 packs, 12,000+ icons. Premium: 7 sets, 13,000+ icons, animated hamburger icons, or your own images.
  • Animation — Free: none. Premium: 12 ways for the bar to appear, 29 hover and 12 idle animations for the buttons, and 37 entrance and 37 exit animations for panels.
  • Where it appears — Free: on every page. Premium: chosen pages, post types, archives, search and 404, by login state, by user role, by device and by language.
  • When it appears — Free: always. Premium: after the visitor scrolls, hidden again while they scroll down, or on a schedule of dates and weekdays.
  • Panel contents — Free: buttons and tooltips. Premium: a header logo, a search form, a social row, footer text, item descriptions and badges, or a panel built in Elementor.
  • Moving a setup — Free: export and import your settings. Premium: export, import and duplicate any single menu, including duplicating it as the other menu type.

Get Super Floating & Flying Menu | See the demos

Premium Upgrade

The comparison is on the Description tab. This is the longer list of what Super Floating & Flying Menu gives you.

Everything in the premium version

  • Over 100 ready made menus you can import with one click, then edit as your own
  • Build menus without touching Appearance > Menus: each menu is its own item, with a builder screen for its items and settings side by side
  • Unlimited menus on one site, each with its own design and its own display rules
  • 14 floating bar layouts, including quarter, half and full circular fans and a one page navigation indicator with 13 styles
  • Side panel, skew side panel, full screen and navigation icon menus, with submenus up to three levels deep
  • Panels with a colour, image or video background, a header logo, a search form, a social row and your own footer text
  • 7 icon packs with more than 13,000 icons, or upload your own image icons
  • 11 button shapes and 12 show and hide animations for the bar
  • 29 button hover animations and 12 idle animations to draw the eye
  • 37 panel entrance and 37 exit animations, plus 6 wave animations for full screen menus
  • Set the colours of every button in one place instead of one at a time, and give the tooltips their own hover colours
  • Show a menu only after the visitor scrolls, and hide it again while they scroll down
  • Schedule a menu by date range and by days of the week, for offers that run themselves
  • Show or hide a menu by page, post type, archive, login state or user role
  • Hide a menu on desktop, tablet or mobile
  • Build the panel contents with Elementor if you prefer a page builder
  • Over 1,400 Google fonts with full typography settings on every text element
  • Import, export and duplicate any menu, including duplicating it as the other menu type
  • RTL ready and multilingual ready, tested with Polylang and WPML

Buy Super Floating & Flying Menu | See the demos

Pre sales questions are welcome at support@hashthemes.com

Screenshots

Installation

The easy way to install the plugin is via WordPress.org plugin directory.

  1. Go to WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Add New
  2. Search for “Simple Floating Menu” and install the plugin.
  3. Activate Plugin from “Plugins” menu in WordPress.

Reviews

March 9, 2026
Easy to use and works perfectly!
September 16, 2025
Super easy to use! Adding it to my WordPress site was a breeze, and managing it is just as simple. Does exactly what I needed—no fuss, no stress. Definitely recommend!
June 3, 2025
simple, elegant, easy. The way it should be!
Read all 38 reviews

Contributors & Developers

“Simple Floating Menu” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Simple Floating Menu” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Simple Floating Menu” into your language.

Interested in development?

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Changelog

1.3.4 – 27 Aug, 2026

  • Plugin description and feature list rewritten, with a free and premium comparison
  • Premium features tab updated to match the current premium version

1.3.3 – 16 Jul, 2026

  • Compatibility test with WordPress version 7.0

1.3.2 – 6 Dec, 2025

  • Compatibility test with WordPress version 6.9

1.3.1 – 10 Oct, 2025

  • Security Bug fixes
  • Translation fixes

1.3.0 – 3 Mar, 2025

  • Translation fixes

1.2.9 – 12 Nov, 2024

  • File formating

1.2.8 – 20 Jul, 2024

  • Compatibility test with latest WordPress 6.6

1.2.7 – 02 Jan, 2024

  • Compatibility test with latest WordPress

1.2.6 – 02 Sep, 2023

  • Fontawesome icon updated with twitter new icon

1.2.5 – 31 Aug, 2023

  • Compatibility test with WordPress v6.3

1.2.4 – 8 May, 2023

  • Design fixes for RTL

1.2.3 – 8 May, 2023

  • Minor Design fixes for RTL

1.2.2 – 1 May, 2023

  • Floating Menu displaying in widget fixed

1.2.1 – 10 Apr, 2023

  • Minor Fixes
  • Compatibility test with WordPress v6.2.2

1.2.0 – 03 Mar, 2023

  • Prefix issue on essential font icon fixed

1.1.9 – 03 Mar, 2023

  • Prefix removed from font icons wp_enqueue_style

1.1.8 – 28 Feb, 2023

  • Font Icons updated

1.1.7 – 10 Jan, 2023

  • Icon Picker bug fixed

1.1.6 – 12 Dec, 2022

  • Google fonts for typography updated
  • Minor design fixes

1.1.5 – 16 Sep, 2022

  • Icon not displaying in dashboard menu fixed
  • Setting panel first tab not active issue fixed
  • Selective display of dynamic styles in setting page only in admin dashboard

1.1.4 – 31 Aug, 2022

  • Design issue in admin notice fixed

1.1.3 – 13 Aug, 2022

  • Added shadow option for buttons
  • Option to load the Google fonts locally to comply with GDPR
  • Notice to review the plugin – Added

1.1.2 – 31 May, 2022

  • Added hooks for developers

1.1.1 – 23 May, 2022

  • Minor Javascript bug – fixed

1.1.0 – 22 May, 2022

  • Option to Import/Export Settings – Added

1.0.9 – 28 Jan, 2022

  • Slow loading of font icon list when switching font pack – fixed
  • Compatibility issue with latest WordPress v5.9 fixed

1.0.8 – 12 Dec, 2021

  • All font icons updated to latest version
  • Files and codes minimized for better performance

1.0.7 – 24 Oct, 2021

  • Stable tag updated.

1.0.6 – 06 Oct, 2021

  • Simple Floating Menu displaying in the new gutenberg widget page fixed.

1.0.5 – 13 Apr, 2021

  • Minor Design fixes in admin panel

1.0.4

  • Minor Changes and Pro Version Upgrade Banner

1.0.3

  • Design issue in the ToolTip pointer arrow of the Edit Button for various position/orientation fixed

1.0.2

  • Added setting button in front end with disable option in the admin

1.0.1

  • Added Option to enable/disable floating menu
  • Admin panel design refinement

1.0

  • Release