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Swifty Bar, sticky bar by WPGens

Adds sticky bar at the bottom of post that shows category,post title, author, time needed to read article, share buttons and previous/next post links

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Tested up to WordPress 6.3
Current version1.2.11
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.3
Minimum stackWP 3.0 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update10 Sept 20233y ago
Active installations400Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 48 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Swifty Bar, sticky bar by WPGens version 1.2.11 as active, updated 3y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.3.

Overview

About this plugin

Boost your user engagement!

As featured on wpbegginer, elegantthemes as top10 plugins of 2015, and on product hunt as product of the day.

Swifty bar will adds sticky bar at the bottom of post that shows category, post title, author, time needed to read article, share buttons together with share count, and previous/next post links. This plugin can easily replace your social share buttons while giving readers better experience with much more options. Its fast, coded with best practice, super light and will not slow down your site.

Check out demo here

Major features in Swifty Bar include:

  • Shows current post category, post title and authors first and last name.
  • Shows estimated time that is needed for visitor to read your article.
  • Share buttons for most popular social networks (new ones comming soon).
  • Number of Comments and click to scroll to comment form.
  • Previous/Next Post Links with nice preview on hover.
  • Super light, clean code that will not slow down your site.
  • Admin Panel to customize each module.
  • Supports custom post types.
  • Multiple colors and two type of icons
  • Share counter

2!

We introduced share count in latest version of swifty bar. We are saving share counts inside WP Transients to keep things fast and fetching new shares once user clicks on any of the share icons, if no clicks have been made, share will refresh once daily, that way site is doing minimal requests to the share APIs which boosts its speed by ALOT.

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WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • footer bar
  • previous next posts
  • share buttons
  • sticky bar
  • time to read
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.3

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.3.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.3
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.0 · PHP not listed
Update activity10 Sept 20233y ago

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