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Sticky Side Buttons
Simple side buttons that might break your site.
HealthyGrowing
71/100
Users appreciate the simple design but recent WordPress updates cause fatal errors.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.4★
41 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+306%
Growing fast
8 → 33 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 11 months
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
Growing fast · +306% in the last year
8/day a year ago→33/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySticky Side Buttons is praised for its simplicity, lightweight design, and useful icon options, but users frequently encounter compatibility and PHP errors with newer WordPress versions.
What people like
- +Simple and easy to set up or use×9
- +Lightweight and fast loading×2
- +Provides many icons and social share button options×3
- +Works well on desktop and on mobile with few buttons
- +Fully functional free version without forced pro upgrade
- +Quick setup, can be configured in minutes
Common complaints
- −Not compatible with latest WordPress versions, causing fatal errors×5
- −PHP activation errors such as type errors and warnings×2
- −Performance slowdown after activation
- −Bugs in color picker and button saving, leading to duplicated content
- −Cannot change button or icon size×2
- −Limited mobile display when many buttons are used
- −Not updated for WordPress 5.9, causing PHP errors (since 5.9)
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.44★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.40★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-11-062026-03-062026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 41 total
Latest reviews · 41 analyzed
- 2025-10-24★★★★★Please update for the newest WordPress versionaloenetwork
- 2022-02-28★★★★★Update to WP 5.9?janosklak
- 2021-05-07★★★★★gives errorsserval36
- 2020-07-09★★★★★simple y útilulisesflores
- 2020-05-20★★★★★Simply Workmarcusasiabc
- 2020-05-20★★★★★Not Testeddineshsunny9
- 2020-04-10★★★★★Works greatannaqq
- 2020-02-02★★★★★Simple and straight to the pointerrsousa
- 2020-01-25★★★★★Excellent , Thank Youtreecutter
- 2019-10-13★★★★★Super PlugIn!tjg
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.
31
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
32
Prior 7-day baseline
28
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
31
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-3.1%
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.
100%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.65
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
81%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.44 → 4.44★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered