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Speed Contact Bar

Let your website visitors get in touch with you easily with permanent visible contact information.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version6.14.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 4.6 · PHP 5.6
Directory statusactive
Last directory update13 Sept 20261mo ago
Active installations4K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.6 / 5 from 56 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Speed Contact Bar version 6.14.0 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Let your website visitors get in touch with you easily with permanent visible contact information.

The plugin is available in English, Spanish (Español), Russian (ру́сский), German (Deutsch) and Polish (Polski). You can add further translations by contributing to GlotPress

The plugin does not collect any personal data, so it is ready for EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance.

Quick contact to you

Speed Contact Bar enables your visitors to get in contact with you quickly. The plugin shows a colored bar with your contact data and social media URLs on the top of every page of your website.

The bar design is responsive and thus ready for smartphones and tablets. The social media icons are included already.

Each icon appears if you set its target URL in the option page. The phone icons and numbers are clickable to trigger a phone call. The e-mail is clickable to open a mail client.

Demo

You want to test Speed Contact Bar before installing on your site? Try it out on your free WordPress playground and click here.

What users said

  • “Perfect! Just tried it and it works!” in WordPress.org Support Forum by immortalguru on Septemer 10, 2019
  • “Useful addition for any business. Could be crucial.” in 10 Best Free Restaurant WordPress Plugins of 2019 by John Hughes on June 2, 2019
  • “FANTASTIC Plugin!” in WordPress.org Reviews by maderemark on August 10, 2018
  • “Speed Contact Bar là một bar plugin rất tốt cho mọi doanh nghiệp …” in 10 Plugin miễn phí tốt nhất cho Nhà Hàng năm 2018 by Duy Anh on May 18, 2018
  • “Speed Contact Bar is ideal when you want visitors to get in touch fast …” in 18 Plugins To Customize the Header And Footer Of Your Site by Claire Brotherton on April 30, 2018
  • “Perfect 5 star plugin” in WordPress.org Reviews by maartensurf on December 13, 2017
  • “This plugin is the only one in the whole repository that really provides what I want.” in WordPress.org Support by stepheniryna on July 14, 2017
  • “the BEST customer service I have received in 2016!” in WordPress.org Support by chrissavid33 on December 31, 2016
  • “100% recommended. Saved my time” in WordPress.org Reviews by ramarao on August 20, 2016
  • “Absolutely fantastic. Was exactly what I was looking for and looks brilliant on my website.” in WordPress.org Reviews by tydem00 on April 15, 2015
  • “It’s one of my favorites, and easily one of the best for social buttons.” in WordPress.org Support Forum by aleos97 on April 25, 2015

What you can configure

There are some options you can set to let the contact bar fit to your needs. You can set

  • your contact data
  • URLs to your social media pages and profiles and
  • many design options like colors

Available contact data options

You can show these three personal contact data:

  • Headline, can be a link with an optional URL
  • Postal address can be a link with an optional URL
  • Phone number, automatically linked to open an available phone application, can be displayed with a text of your choice
  • Fax number, automatically linked to open an available phone application, can be displayed with a text of your choice
  • Cell phone number, automatically linked to open an available phone application, can be displayed with a text of your choice. Thanks to Jim Colao for the icons!
  • E-Mail address, automatically linked to open an available mail client, can be displayed with a text of your choice
  • WhatsApp, Messenger and Telegram to open an available chat client, can be displayed with a text of your choice
  • any further content you wish by using the filter hook speed-contact-bar-data (as documented in FAQ section "How to add and re-order list entries by using hooks").

Supported social media platforms

Speed Contact Bar supports links to these social media platforms, as ordered alphabetically:

  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • IMDb
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Skype
  • SlideShare
  • Snapchat
  • SoundCloud
  • Telegram
  • Text Messages
  • Tumblr
  • X (former Twitter)
  • Vimeo
  • WhatsApp
  • WeChat
  • Xing
  • Yelp
  • YouTube
  • Any further content you wish by using the filter hook speed_contact_bar_icons (as documented in FAQ section "How to add and re-order list entries by using hooks").

More social media platforms will come in future.

Design options under your fingertips

You can set the design of the contact bar easily, fast and safe to be suitable to the design of your website:

  • Page types where to hide the bar: You can set on which page types the bar is not displayed, e.g. start page, archive page, search results page etc.
  • Maximal viewport width to hide the bar: You can specify the window width up to which the bar is not displayed, e.g. in Smartphones
  • Minimal viewport width to hide the bar: You can specify the window width from which the bar is not displayed, e.g. in desktop browsers
  • Position of the bar: You can place the bar at the top or bottom on every page
  • Fixed position: You can set whether it should scroll with the content or stay fixed
  • Horizontal padding of the contact bar
  • Vertical padding of the contact bar
  • Space between bar and page content if the bar is fixed
  • Background color of the contact bar or a transparent bar
  • Background color opacity of the contact bar, i.e. its grade of transparency
  • Text color

12 Link color

  • Lightness of icons: You can select between dark or bright icons
  • Content alignment within the bar
  • Font size of the texts and links
  • Icon size
  • Headline visibility: switch the headline on or off
  • Headline text
  • Headline HTML tag
  • Headline URL to make the headline a link
  • Shadow under or above the bar for a chic 3D effect
  • Link target of all links to open a contact link in the same window or in a new window
  • Show contact data on small displays instead of showing icons only
  • specify a display width as a trigger to show or to hide the bar
  • any further style you wish by using the filter hook speed-contact-bar-style

Do you miss some options? We will add it! org.

We will try to take a look and answer as soon as possible.

Read the FAQ section "How to add and re-order list entries by using hooks" about how to use the plugin’s hooks.

Languages

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Your language is missing? Please be part of the community and help to translate Speed Contact Bar on GlotPress. Thank you!

Installation by Using the WordPress Dashboard

  • Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
  • Search for ‘Speed Contact Bar’
  • Click ‘Install Now’
  • Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard
  • Configure the plugin with the options page at “Settings” => “Speed Contact Bar”.

Installation by Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

  • Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
  • Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
  • Select speed-contact-bar.zip from your computer
  • Click ‘Install Now’
  • Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
  • Configure the plugin with the options page at “Settings” => “Speed Contact Bar”.

Installation by Using FTP

  • Download speed-contact-bar.zip
  • Extract the speed-contact-bar directory to your computer
  • Upload the speed-contact-bar directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  • Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard
  • Configure the plugin with the options page at “Settings” => “Speed Contact Bar”.
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • contact bar
  • social icons
  • phone
  • responsive
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.6 · PHP 5.6
Update activity13 Sept 20261mo ago

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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex

Recent tracked changes

Version6.13.06.14.0
WordPress requirement3.54.6
PHP requirement5.25.6
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