Fixed But Scrollable Sidebr

[jackirt]

I'm looking to implement a fixed, but scrollable sidebar to my theme. The sidebar in twentyfifteen is the perfect example.

Any way I can add this?

Jaclyn

https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyfifteen/

[Victor Font]

I don't understand what you mean by fixed and scrollable. The term fixed means that it is not scrollable and scrollable means that it is not fixed. Please explain your requirements in more detail. What do you want to accomplish?

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[jackirt]

Hi Victor,

I know it sounds weird what I'm trying to accomplish, but you can see a perfect example here in the WordPress twentyfifteen theme.

https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyfifteen/

They have left sidebar filled with widgets that extend past the view of the page, however when you scroll the content, the sidebar begins to scroll with the content, but fixes once the last widget has been reached.

Jaclyn

[carasmo]

Someone on the Facebook Genesis group asked about that in December and I saved the post:

Fixed Widget and Sticky Elements for WordPress

It works well on long posts but won't kick in on short pages.

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Genesis Theme Customization and Help

[LeStatisticien]

This Forum has been so helpful to me that I want to take the time to make the following report on an important problem for those who wish to use their wordpress-based sites for knowledge conveyance. What follows refers to Academy Pro Theme (called “APro” henceforth).

All the way back to 2016, you will find questions in this Forum about how to hold a menu on the screen while the user causes a long text to scroll along.

I started with the Genesis Plug-In named “Genesis Simple Sidebars”, recommended by Anita, and then set about trying to find a way to force it to stay on the screen while a long text was being scrolled beside it.

I spent a few hours investigating three solutions, and can now report that the plug-in named “Q2W3 Fixed Widget” is the only one of the three that works elegantly for me inside APro. (I may have made mistakes in configuring one or more of them, however.)

As you see above, this route was recommended back in 2016 by Carasmo. However, he/she said little about how we get to the desired result, so I will add some commentary on this point.

Fortunately, the Genesis software engineers designated an auxiliary menu as a widget, and prescribed that it be placed in the sidebar area that you’re able to set aside as part of your page configuration.

As you select this widget to go into the sidebar, “Q2W3 Fixed Widget” causes a new option to appear — “Fixed Widget”, which you select by clicking into a box.

Make sure that it is the last widget in the sidebar, otherwise you will have a visual mix-up of widgets as you scroll along. Having it at the last widget is great; because you now can make your menu as long as you wish!

A slight annoyance is that the configuration of “Q2W3 Fixed Widget” invites some confusion due to lack of completeness and clarity in the instructions.

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