Floating action buttons? So hot right now.
You’ll commonly see them used for live chat, but there are tons of other ways that you can use them depending on your website’s needs.
You could use them to drive traffic to a special offer, let people on mobile phones call your business, display social share buttons, or whatever else your creative mind comes up with.
Buttonizer is a WordPress plugin that helps you add those types of buttons to your site, complete with a bunch of other helpful features. It’s a flexible floating action button plugin for WordPress that you can use to create a variety of different types of buttons, including multiple buttons at the same time.
And in my Buttonizer review, I’m going to show you exactly how it works and share my thoughts on the plugin.
As with many plugins, Buttonizer has a free version at WordPress.org, and then a Pro version with more detailed functionality.
Additionally, if you’re using Google Analytics, Buttonizer will automatically track button clicks using Event Tracking.
Page categories and rules – these let you target your floating action button to specific types of content instead of displaying it everywhere. You could use this to display different buttons on different types of content, or just not use a button on some content.
Behavior targeting – you can wait to display your buttons until specific triggers are met, like scroll depth or time on site.
Opening hours – if you’re only open during certain hours, you can use this feature to show/hide your button during your opening hours.
Custom images/logos/icons – the pro version lets you use your own custom graphics.
It’s not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but good onboarding is something that’s a bit lacking with many WordPress plugins, so I try to make a special note whenever a plugin does a good job with it.
So yeah, kudos for onboarding, Buttonizer!
As you saw in the onboarding above, the first thing that you’ll want to do is set up your main floating action button’s basic settings. This is the main button that houses the various action buttons (this will become clearer in a second).
Once you do that, you’re ready to create your first individual button!
Each button that you create displays as an option above the main floating action button (I’ll show you how this works in a second).
Creating a button is pretty simple. The most important part of the interface is the Button action setting. That’s where you configure what the button will actually do when clicked on.
I created two different buttons so that I can show you how they work on the front-end. These buttons use two contrasting colors (red and blue), which is pretty ugly. But I did it this way so that you can see how multiple buttons work on the front end.
In the Page Rules tab, you can use AND/OR rules to set up certain conditions for when a button should display (or not display).
You can add as many different page rules as you want.
Pretty cool! The only thing you can’t currently handle is a situation where you have two sets of opening hours in a single day. For example, if you close for an hour over lunch, you can’t account for that. But that’s probably a pretty niche situation and a bit nitpicky.
How Much Does Buttonizer Cost?
The core version of Buttonizer is available for free at WordPress.org.
Buttonizer delivers on its promises. It makes it easy to create a flexible floating action button on your WordPress site.
You can use it to drive social shares, funnel people towards an offer, let them call you on their mobile phone, start a WhatsApp chat, and plenty more.
The developer has done a good job putting together the interface so that it’s easy to navigate. And I didn’t encounter any issues in using the plugin.
So if you want to add a floating action button to your WordPress site, this is a great one to look at.
You can give the free version a try to get your feet wet. But I think most of the coolest functionality is in the Pro version. So if you like what you see in the free version, I think it’s definitely worth upgrading to Pro for more options.