Create sticky bar at the top of each page

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  thepaleopi · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 6:48 am

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  Hey and Happy New Year!!!

  I’ve spent the better part of two hours looking for a solution to this problem but have come up empty ended!

  I’d like to create a sticky bar at the top of my blog (thepaleopi.com) to direct users to sign up to follow my blog via e-mail (this option currently appears in my side-bar). The sticky bar would follow users down the page as they scroll. Here is an example of a blog using a sticky bar: http://enjoyingthisjourney.com/

  I’ve investigated options such as MailChimp and Hellobar but these both require WordPress plugins. I cannot see anything in Widgets that would do this for me.

  Is this at all possible in WordPress.com?

  Cheers,

  Rory

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 4:36 pm

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  Hi Rory,

  On WordPress.com this sort of functionality would only be available as part of a theme, since uploading plugins is not available, and I don’t believe any current themes have a header that behaves the way you’d like. (A widget area sticky’d to the top.)

  However, I can recommend a couple possible workarounds:

  Twenty Fourteen uses a sticky bar for one of its menu locations. You could create a Custom Link in that menu which leads to a landing page for following your blog. Not a widget area though.

  Arcade has the same option.

  Twenty Fifteen uses a non-scrolling sidebar and that is a widget area. You can add the Follow Blog widget there and it will remain in view as the reader scrolls, albeit in the sidebar not in the header.

  Studio has a similar option.

  -Alex G.