Nest – Flyout Sliding Panels for WordPress

Nest is a lightweight WordPress plugin that lets you add animated off canvas sliding panels to any website. Whether you’d like to set up a sliding sidebar, a sliding header or footer, or even a full-screen flyout panel for your WordPress site, Nest’s feature set makes it an absolute and utter breeze.

Not only is Nest easy to set up and use but it’s also very customizable. For example, you can customize a panel’s size and animation speed with pixel and millisecond accuracy. And there are many more features and customization options:

Features
Sliding panel plugin for WordPress
Create WordPress sliding panels to display any content
Site-wide panel with per-post and per-page overrides
Optionally show panel on front page only
Optionally hide panel on specific posts/pages
Apply scaling/opacity animations to specified theme content when a panel is opened/closed
Smooth and stutter-free animations
Activation options
Activate via customizable buttons
Activate via custom element (simple text link, an image, your own button etc.)
Insert activation buttons via shortcode (or use included positioning options)
Activate automatically via customizable time delay
Show once per browser session option included
Activate when scrolled to anchor (example use: open panel automatically when scrolled to bottom of page)
Deactivate by clicking/tapping the close button, site overlay, or the ESC button
Optionally lock body scroll when panel open
Massively and easily customizable:
Each sliding panel can be customized independently for vastly different results
Customize site-wide panel in real-time using the WordPress Live Customizer (per-post/page slides are customized on the post/page’s edit page)
Show to all visitors, or only to logged in or logged out users
Clean and well-marked code
Thoroughly tried and tested:
desktop, tablets, smartphones
iOS, Android, Windows devices
Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, Opera
Proven author with fast and friendly support
Lifetime free updates
Jargon-free documentation
Customization
Nest’s sliding panels are effortlessly yet massively customizable. Essentially every aspect of the appearance of a panel can be customized to your liking:

Sliding panel:
Customize width and height
Chose flyout direction (top, bottom, left, right)
Customize slide animation speed
Set maximum width for the content inside the panel
Customize background color and opacity
Add background image or pattern and customize its opacity
Optionally fade in content upon panel activation
Customize styled scrollbar (change colors, thickness, roundness, distance from sides)
Optionally display panel at specified resolutions only
Activation:
Set custom time delay for automatic panel display
Open panel when scrolled to anchor (ID/class both accepted)
4 activation button designs (each fully color customizable)
Set custom text for activation button
Change activation button text size
Fine-tune activation button top/left/right/bottom distance
Position activation button top-left, top-right, bottom-left or bottom-right of screen
Give activation button absolute or fixed positioning
Optionally enter activation buttons via shortcode; useful if you’d like to place an activation button inside a post, into a sidebar etc.
Optionally hide activation button (useful for cases where you want to open a panel automatically, enter the activation button via shortcode or use a custom activator)
Close button:
3 close button designs (fully color customizable)
Position close button top-left, center or top-right of panel
Fine-tune close button top/left/right distance
Overlay:
Customize overlay color
Customize overlay opacity
Give overlay blur effect (strength freely adjustable)
Why would a sliding panel be useful to me?
Sliding panels, sliding bars and sliding sidebars are a fantastic way to display content to your visitors in a memorable way. To give some examples, you can use Nest to display a mailing list sign-up form, alert your audience to an upcoming event, introduce a product, invite feedback from your readers, show off your vacation photos, set up a menu and so on. You really are only limited by your needs and imagination.

With the possibility to show a Nest panel on a specific post or page only and activate it from any element, automatically via time delay or when scrolled to an anchor, Nest can even be used to perform a call-to-action function; absolutely fantastic for marketing purposes.