DiceBar — Mobile Bottom Bar for WordPress
A bottom bar on phones with the things people actually tap: call, WhatsApp, directions, email. Free, works with any theme, and loads nothing on pages where it does not appear.
Your phone visitors have one thumb and no patience
On a phone, the header is collapsed behind a menu button and the footer is a scroll away. The number you want them to call is in neither.
More than half of what we see on client analytics is mobile, often much more for local businesses. A bottom bar puts the call button where the thumb already is, and keeps it there while they read.
What you can put in it
Call, WhatsApp, SMS, email
Click to call, open a WhatsApp chat on your number, start a text or an email. The four that produce actual enquiries for a local business.
Directions
Opens maps with your address. For anybody with a shop or a clinic, this is the second most tapped button after the phone.
Links, share and back to top
Point a button at a page or a section on the current page. Share and back-to-top are built in.
Thirty social networks
If your customers message you on Instagram rather than ringing, put that in the bar instead.
Four buttons, deliberately
The bar caps at four. More than that and the labels stop fitting on a 320px screen, which is where a lot of budget Android phones still sit.
Nine starter kits
Pick one close to your business and adjust, rather than starting from an empty bar.
Three things it gets right that most bars do not
It works with page caching
Visibility rules are resolved so a cached page is never wrong for the person reading it. Bars that decide visibility in PHP break the moment you put a cache in front of them.
It loads nothing when it shows nothing
No CSS and no JavaScript on pages where the bar does not appear. A bar that ships its assets site-wide to show on three pages is a tax on every other page.
It knows about iPhone home indicators and cookie banners
Safe-area positioning so it is not under the home bar, and room left for a consent banner so the two do not fight.
Four steps
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Install
Plugins, Add New, search DiceBar. Or download it from the WordPress.org repository.
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Pick a starter kit
Nine to choose from. Each is a sensible set of four buttons for a kind of business.
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Put your numbers in
Your phone, your WhatsApp, your address. The live preview shows it at 320, 375 and 414 pixels wide as you type.
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Decide where it shows
By device, by page, and by whether somebody is signed in. Set per bar or per button.
There is also a [dicebar] shortcode and an Elementor widget if you want the same buttons inside a page rather than fixed to the bottom.
What it does not do
It is not analytics
Taps fire a browser event your own tag manager can listen for. The plugin itself records nothing and sends nothing anywhere.
Four buttons is the cap
If you need six, this is not the plugin. The cap is a design decision, not an upsell.
Custom CSS was removed
Version 1.8.0 took the custom CSS field out. Style it from your theme instead.
Does it work with my theme?
It is a fixed element added to the front end, so it does not depend on your theme or page builder.
Will it slow my site down?
It loads no CSS or JavaScript on pages where it does not appear. Where it does appear, it is a small amount of both.
Does it track anything?
No. No analytics, no external requests. If you want tap data, listen for the event it fires with your own tag manager.
Is there a paid version?
No. Every feature is in the free plugin.
Will it cover my cookie banner?
No. It leaves room for one, and you can set how much.
Want the whole site to convert, not just the bar?
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