Sticky WooCommerce Category Menu
Add a floating, sticky WooCommerce product category sidebar so shoppers can browse your shop from any page — no theme edits required.
Will this break my store?
What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping Sticky WooCommerce Category Menu running.
Tested to 7.0.2
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.2 months ago
At least 0.7 releases a year since launch. WordPress.org only lists versions still available for download, so the real number may be higher.7.2
Your host must be running at least this version.5.6
woocommerce
These must be installed and active first.1
A single maintainer. Worth knowing if the plugin is load-bearing for your store.Maintenance & trust
Scored on how Sticky WooCommerce Category Menu is looked after — not on how many stores run it.
Maintenance
35 / 35WordPress compatibility
20 / 20Support responsiveness
Not enough dataMerchant satisfaction
Not enough dataListing transparency
10 / 10Ratings
No one has rated this plugin on WordPress.org yet. That is a statement about the ratings page, not about the plugin — plenty of well-kept plugins never collect them.
Floating Product Category for WooCommerce adds a sticky category panel to your online store. Shoppers tap a floating button to open a full product category menu from anywhere on your site — shop pages, product pages, blog posts, or landing pages.
Help customers find products faster, reduce bounce rate, and improve WooCommerce navigation without touching your theme or writing code.
Why use a floating category sidebar?
Most WooCommerce themes bury category links in the main menu or hide them on mobile. A floating category button keeps your product catalog one click away on every page, which helps shoppers discover categories they might otherwise miss.
Key features
- Floating sticky category button — fixed on the left or right edge of the screen
- Slide-out category panel — opens over the page without a full reload
- Unlimited sub-category nesting — accordion expand/collapse for deep category trees
- In-panel category search — filter long category lists instantly
- Active category highlighting — shows the current category and auto-expands its branch
- Breadcrumb trail — context on category and shop archive pages
- Display targeting — all pages, shop & product pages only, or everywhere except Cart & Checkout
- Remembers open/closed state — panel state persists as shoppers browse
- Two layouts — simple text list or category cards with thumbnail images
- Product count — optional count next to each category name
- Product tags & brands — optional flat lists below categories (WooCommerce Brands supported)
- Preserve shop filters — optionally keep price and rating filters when switching categories
- Keyboard accessible — Escape to close, click-outside to close, ARIA states
- Fully customizable — colors, position, layout, and behavior via the WordPress Customizer
- No theme changes — works with any WooCommerce-compatible theme
Perfect for
- WooCommerce stores with large or deeply nested product category structures
- Shops that want mobile-friendly category navigation without a hamburger menu rebuild
- Store owners who need category access on non-shop pages (home, blog, landing pages)
- Sites using product tags or WooCommerce Brands alongside categories
Customization
All settings live in Appearance → Customizer → Floating Product Category. Change background and text colors, button style, float position (left or right), layout, category order, maximum depth, empty-category visibility, and where the panel appears — with live preview.
Performance
The category tree is built from a single cached query, so large catalogs stay fast even with many parent and child categories.
Yes. WooCommerce must be installed and active. The plugin does not load without it.
Go to Appearance → Customizer → Floating Product Category. You can change colors, layout, float position, display scope, search, and more with live preview.
The panel only renders when your store has at least one published product category with products assigned. Check that categories are not empty and that your display scope setting includes the current page.
Yes. Under Show On in the Customizer, choose “Shop & product pages only” to limit the panel to WooCommerce browse pages.
Yes. The plugin supports unlimited nested sub-categories with accordion expand/collapse. You can also set a maximum depth if you want to limit how deep the tree goes.
Yes. Enable Category Search in the Customizer to add a live filter box — useful for stores with dozens of categories.
Yes. You can optionally show a flat product tag list and/or WooCommerce Brands list below your category tree.
No. Categories are loaded from a single cached query rather than one database call per parent category.
Yes. The panel supports keyboard navigation (Escape to close), click-outside to dismiss, and proper ARIA expanded/hidden states.
Plugin details
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