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My Sticky Bar – Floating Notification Bar & Sticky Header (formerly myStickymenu)
Relief comes easy when your sticky menu actually works as promised.
Declining
79/100
The plugin provides reliable sticky headers and a generous free tier with very little friction.
Active installs
~186,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.9★
1,193 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-28%
Declining fast
823 → 593 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 28% vs a year ago
- MINORreview volume down 65% vs prior 6mo
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -28% in the last year
823/day a year ago→593/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMy Sticky Bar is well-regarded as a lightweight, easy-to-use sticky notification bar and header plugin with a generous free tier, though the review set is uniformly positive and offers little critical signal to balance against.
What people like
- +Easy to install and configure with an intuitive UI×6
- +Works reliably without breaking layouts or navigation×5
- +Smooth animations and clean behavior×2
- +Free version is described as generous and fully functional
- +Support team is responsive and helpful, including for free-tier users×3
Common complaints
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.93★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 36%One-shot reviewers — single-review accounts (common for popular plugins, but worth noting)
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-04-152025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 1,193 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-13★★★★★Great sticky panelanavato
- 2026-05-12★★★★★Easydavidargence
- 2026-05-05★★★★★Notification Bar looks really nice!westbrooksheep1-shot
- 2026-01-29★★★★★Great Sticky Bar and Teamkdriessen1-shot
- 2025-12-25★★★★★Works wellMikeFrisbee
- 2025-12-12★★★★★Perfect Notification/Sticky Barlmccade
- 2025-11-28★★★★★Notification Barprvsh1-shot
- 2025-11-07★★★★★Great Support, Intuitive Productlamccray
- 2025-11-07★★★★★Great&Really usefulkonstaleks
- 2025-10-30★★★★★Easy to Use & Excellent Customer Care Servicesjanetkibunyi1-shot
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
901
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
484
Prior 7-day baseline
913
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
29,394
Mean release-day peak (30d)
900
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+86.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
8%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.59
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
98%
5★ share in analyzed sample
36%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-65%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.91 → 4.93★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered