Footer Contacts Bar

Description

Show fixed buttons on bottom screen.
* new feature (november 2024): Added animated hover effects for buttons

To allow visitors a quick and easy way for contact you by “Call to Action”, located on the bottom of the screen. This plugin allows you to track and evaluate the effectiveness of a site by measuring visitors’ clicks. By combining the statistics of the buttons (call to action) with the statistics of visits of other tools, it will be easier to study new strategies to increase conversions. The buttons are easily customizable for different site themes and they open a link in a new window.

Compatibility with firefox, chrome, safari, opera and edge

Available options

  • target option (open in same/new tab)
  • buttons shape option (square, top rounded, left wave and right wave)
  • buttons spacing option (none, 1px, 2px or 5px)
  • start animation option (fade, slide up, slide left and slide right)
  • alignment buttons (center, left or right)
  • display customization (icons only, text only, or both)
  • size of buttons (very small, small, normal, big, very big)
  • type of bar (full screen background, background only on buttons or completely transparent background)
  • customization of background and text colors (including hover colors and transparent option)
  • icon format in svg
  • color customization for each individual button
  • compatibility with FontAwesome (installed separately) and related button and instructions for adding the icon
  • new shape added: rounded edges (in the icon-only view the button becomes a circle)
  • replaced the preset icons with svg that are colored like the text
  • custom color selection has popup support with color palette UI

Available preset buttons

  • WhatsApp button for quickly sending a message
  • Phone button to call immediately
  • Email button to write and send mail
  • Map button to activate the Google navigator and provide information on how to reach the office
  • Skype button
  • Facebook button
  • Instagram button
  • Youtube button
  • LinkedIn button
  • TikTok button
  • Twitter button
  • Download button
  • External link button

Statistics

Statistics to monitor clicks (call to action):
* total number of clicks per day, month and year
* daily, monthly and annual chicks number for each button

Screenshots

  • preview footer contacts bar
  • preview buttons style
  • contact buttons list
  • add new preset button
  • edit button
  • settings page
  • daily, monthly and annual statistics of clicks on contact buttons

Installation

  • Download the plugin.
  • Install and active the plugin on your WordPress Admin site.
  • Open menu Footer Contacts

This plugin is compatible and integrable in DN Dashboard, DN Globalize and DN Smart Chat

FAQ

After updating to version 1.6 the buttons are deformed

Go to “settings” and save. The css will be reset correctly by deleting the cache.

How to add a “preset button” to footer bar

  1. In the side menu, click on Settings > Footer Contacts
  2. In the “List” screen, select a predefined button from the drop-down menu and click on “Save and add new”
  3. Fill in the required fields (the title is optional), set status to “visible” and save

How to add “custom button” to the footer menu bar

Custom field button for other link, example profile facebook, profile instagram, profile youtube, messenger, etc
1. Prepare a 56×56 pixel image with transparent background (png, gif, webp, etc)
2. From the side menu click on Media > Add new
3. Press “Select file” to open the device file browser window
4. Select the image file and upload it
5. Copy the url generate by WordPress (if image is not optimized you can edit it with the tools made available by the image library)
6. In the side menu, click on Settings > Footer Contacts
7. In the “List” screen select “custom field” from the dropdown and click on “Save and add new”
8. Fill in the required fields (the title is optional), copy url in the “image url” field, set status to “visible” and save

Reviews

27 di Novembar dal 2023 2 replies
A nice add-on. It would be great if the buttons could be colored separately and have the ability to choose different fontawasome icons. If I get these, I can use them on many sites. I follow the updates.
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Contributors & Developers

“Footer Contacts Bar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.8

2024-11-03
* Added animated hover effects for buttons
* Tested up to WordPress 6.7
* Some improvements

1.6.3

2024-04-08
* Fixed XSS fulnerability (thanks for the report from Security Researchers for WPScan and Jetpack)
* Tested up to WordPress 6.5

1.6.2

  • Tested up to WordPress 6.4.3

1.6.1

2023-12-16
* Fixed javascript warning

1.6.0

2023-12-08
*added color customization for each individual button
*added compatibility with FontAwesome (installed separately) and related button and instructions for adding the icon
*a new shape added: rounded edges (in the icon-only view the button becomes a circle)
*replaced the preset icons with svg that are colored like the text
*custom colors are compatible with rgba (colors and opacity)
*custom color selection has popup support with color palette UI
*added instructions on the “about” page
*preset icon formats (png/webp) eliminated and replaced with svg compatible with all browsers
*tested with firefox, chrome, safari, opera and edge

1.5

2023-06-23
* added target option (open in same/new tab)
* fixed some PHP notice in backend

1.4.1

  • fixed bug su about page

1.4.0

2023-05-24
* improved html tag for icons
* added webp format for icons
* fixed display “icons + title” in mobile mode

1.3.1

2023-03-31
* Added new buttons: download and website link
* Tested on WordPress v6.2
* Fixed order buttons bug
* Fixed php notices
* Fixed device views bug
* Added refreshing textdomain languages on upgrade plugin version

1.3.0

  • added new preset buttons (skype, facebook, instagram, youtube, linkedin, tiktok, twitter)
  • added animations for bar appearance (fade, slide up, slide left and slide right)
  • added option to separate buttons
  • added new option for button shape (square, top rounded, right wave and left wave)
  • new visibility based on device (desktop, tablet or mobile)
  • buttons management redesigned with ajax tecnology
  • added new sorting system based on drag&drop
  • increased security
  • admin button styles are now equal to front style
  • fixed settings save bug for menubar size
  • added help section in “About” page for colors suggestions

1.2.0

  • improved graphic appearance and notify message
  • file structure optimization to avoid waste of resources
  • implemented dynamic CSS external file for frontend styles (before they were inline)
  • the javascript scripts were put in separate js file
  • the backend css were put in separate css file
  • fixd title html tag on buttons in frontend
  • fixed varius php notice
  • added reset all data, settings and stats function
  • added “About” section with link at WordPress support forum of the plugin
  • security level has been increased
  • tested up to wordpress 6.1.1

1.1.2

  • fixed session conflict warning

1.1.1

  • tested up to wordpress 6.0

1.1

  • fixed bug on adding new button when list is empty
  • added “email button” in preset buttons

1.0.1

  • added “custom contact button”
  • added “size icon” and “hide all” options

1.0

  • initial version