Share buttons at the bottom of a long article are share buttons nobody reaches.
Pinning them to the side of the screen keeps them in view for the whole read — and it is done with the block’s Position settings rather than a sticky option of its own.
For every External Form Styler setting in one place, see the main Social Sharing guide.
Before You Start
- Edition: Pro — the Social Sharing block needs Nexter Blocks Pro.
- Block to enable: Social Sharing, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
- A Social Sharing block already set up — see the main Social Sharing guide.
Steps
- Add the Social Sharing block and set Layout to Vertical.
- Open the block’s Advanced settings and find Position.
- Set Position to Fixed.
- Set the horizontal side and offset — for example Left, 20px — and the vertical side and offset, for example Top, 200px.
- Publish and scroll the real page. The icons should hold their place.
How It Behaves
The Social Sharing block puts share buttons on a page. It builds each button’s link from the page it sits on — that page’s address and title — so there is nothing to configure per page.
- Measured on a page with 2179 pixels of scroll: with Position set to Fixed and offsets of 20px left and 200px top, the block sat at exactly that spot and was still at exactly that spot after scrolling 1500 pixels. The same block without the setting had moved from 38 pixels down to 1462 pixels off the top of the screen.
- Sticky is not a setting inside this block. It is the shared Position option that every Nexter block has, so the same steps pin any block.
- The offsets decide the corner. Left or Right with a horizontal offset, Top or Bottom with a vertical one.
- The position is applied to a wrapper around the block — measured, the fixed positioning sits on an outer element, which is why the block’s own styling is unaffected.
- Each button shares the page it is on. Measured: the Facebook link carried that page’s address and the Twitter link carried its address and title. You do not enter a URL anywhere.
The share counts are numbers you type, not real ones. Measured on a published page: the counter showed
9.9 Kand every network showed109— the block’s own placeholder text. Nothing is fetched from Facebook, X or anyone else, and the figures never change. Treat them as decoration, or leave them off rather than show a visitor a number that is not true.
Limitations
- Fixed elements can cover content on small screens. Position is set per device, so set it to none on mobile, or use the Hide on Mobile option, rather than leaving a column of icons over the text.
- It does not stop at a boundary. A fixed block stays put for the whole page; it cannot be told to stick only within one section.
- Overlapping other fixed elements — a sticky header, a cookie bar, a chat widget — is your responsibility to check; adjust the offsets or the Z-Index.
- Measured with Nexter Blocks Pro deactivated: the block renders nothing at all.
Troubleshooting
The icons scroll away with the page
Position is not set to Fixed, or it is set for a different device size than the one you are testing. Measured: without it the block scrolls off normally.
The icons sit on top of my content
Increase the horizontal offset to move them off the text, or hide them on smaller screens.
They are behind the header
Set a higher Z-Index in the same Advanced settings.
They are in the wrong corner
Check the horizontal side (Left or Right) and the vertical side (Top or Bottom) as well as the offset values — the offset is measured from the side you chose.
