Sticky Header Effects has done one job well for years: it makes an Elementor header sticky and adds scroll effects on top, with no code. Today it runs on more than 300,000 active WordPress sites. Our team looks after it, keeps it compatible with every Elementor release, and reads what people ask for.
Today, Sticky Header Effects Pro is here. Before the feature list, I want to give you the honest thinking behind it, because if you trust a free plugin with the top of your site, you deserve the why and not just the what.
The Short Version
Pro adds 11 new effects and more than 50 ready-made header templates, all set from the same Elementor editor you already use. The free plugin stays free on unlimited sites, forever. We also rebuilt the website so finding effects, templates, and docs is finally simple. If you only read one line: nothing you use today changes, Pro only adds on top.
What Is Not Changing
Before anything else, the promise that matters most. Nothing you use today moves behind a paywall. Every effect in the free plugin stays free, on unlimited sites, forever. No new limits, no locked features, and no ads added to your dashboard.
If you never buy Pro, your sites work exactly as they do right now. The only thing Pro changes is that there is now more available for the people who want it. That is the whole deal, and we are going to hold it.
You Asked, We Released
When we planned a paid version, we did not brainstorm features in a room. We read. We went through years of support tickets and the 61 reviews behind our 4.6 star rating on WordPress.org, and we looked for the requests that kept repeating.
The same handful came up again and again. Let me stop the header at a certain point instead of all the way down. Let me show the sticky behavior only on some pages. Let me swap the whole header on scroll, not just restyle it. Let me run more than one sticky element without them fighting each other. These were not nice-to-haves. They were the exact walls people hit once the free effects had carried them most of the way.
So we built them, and released them. Every Pro feature below is a real, repeated request that needed serious engineering and ongoing support to do properly. The basic needs every site has stayed free. The advanced control people kept asking for is what we put into Pro.
How Pro Keeps the Plugin Going
Here is the part most plugin makers do not say out loud. A free plugin is not free to run. It costs support hours, compatibility testing across themes and every Elementor release, and steady development to keep 300,000 sites stable. For years we covered that out of our other work at POSIMYTH.
That model has a ceiling. The more the free plugin grows, the more it costs to keep healthy, and the harder it gets to fund the advanced work people keep asking for. Pro is how the free version stays maintained, supported, and improving for the long run. When you buy Pro, you are not only getting the advanced effects, you are helping keep the free plugin alive for everyone who relies on it.
What Stays Free
Trust lives in specifics, so let me be specific. Everything you use today stays free, with no new limits and no per-site fee. The 12 core effects all remain free, including Transparent Header, Sticky on Scroll, Shrink Header, Shrink Logo, Change Logo Color, Background on Sticky, Blur Background, Bottom Border, and Hide Header on Scroll Down.
It still works on both Elementor Free and Elementor Pro, with per-device control for desktop, tablet, and mobile, and no custom CSS. If you never buy Pro, nothing about your sites changes tomorrow. That is a promise, not a footnote.
The 11 New Pro Effects
Pro adds 11 new effects. Here is each one, and the real problem it removes. Every one of them started as a request from someone using the free plugin.
Sticky Until. A sticky header that follows the visitor all the way down a long page is not always what you want. Sticky Until lets you stop the effect at the end of a section, the end of the page, or an exact pixel value you choose. It is the difference between a header that helps and one that overstays its welcome.
Display Condition. Most sites do not want the same sticky behavior everywhere. Display Condition applies it by page, post type, or template, so your landing pages, blog posts, and shop can each behave the way they should, instead of one rule forced across the whole site.
Multi-Sticky With Auto-Hide. Real layouts often have more than one element that needs to stick, like an announcement bar above the main header. This lets you run several at once and decide which one hides as the next takes over, instead of watching them collide on scroll.
Header Replace on Scroll. Some designs call for a genuinely different header once the visitor starts scrolling, not just a restyled one. This swaps one Elementor header template for another as they move down the page, which used to mean custom code or hiring a developer.
Logo Image Swap. A color filter on your logo only goes so far. This switches to a completely different logo file on scroll, which is exactly what you need when your brand mark changes between a transparent hero and a solid sticky bar.
Logo Styling Options. The logo that looks right at the top of the page is rarely the one that looks right once the header shrinks. This gives you control over logo width, padding, and shadow specifically for the sticky state.
Reveal Animations. A header that simply snaps into place can feel abrupt. Choose how it arrives instead, sliding, fading, dropping, or scaling in when sticky activates, so the motion matches the rest of your site.
Sticky Menu Styling. Your menu often needs to look different on a solid sticky bar than it does floating over a hero image. This lets you restyle the menu color, hover state, and typography just for the sticky header.
Header Opacity Transition. Instead of the header background appearing all at once, this ramps its opacity smoothly as the visitor scrolls, tied directly to scroll position for a calmer, more intentional feel.
Backdrop Filter. This is real backdrop blur, saturate, and contrast behind the sticky bar, the frosted-glass look people kept asking how to build. It reads as modern, with no CSS to write.
Background Image. Sometimes a solid color is not enough once the header sticks. This switches to a textured or patterned background the moment the header becomes sticky, so the bar can carry its own surface.
50+ Ready-Made Templates
If you would rather start from something finished, Pro includes more than 50 header templates built around these effects. Pick one, import it, and edit it in the Elementor editor like any other section. Each template is a starting point, not a cage, so you keep full control over the design.
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Alongside Pro, we also rebuilt the website from scratch. The old site grew piece by piece over the years and became hard to navigate. The new one is organized around how people actually use the plugin: browse the effects with a live preview, open the full template library in one place, read a doc, and get started, without digging.
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Pricing, Said Plainly
How a thing is priced says a lot about whether you can trust the people behind it, so let me be direct.
| What you get | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Core sticky header effects | 12 | 12 |
| Advanced effects | 0 | 11 |
| Ready-made templates | 0 | 50+ |
| Sites covered | Unlimited | 1 site, or unlimited with Agency |
| Updates and support | Free updates, community support | Lifetime updates, priority support |
| Price | $0 forever | From $49 one-time |
Pro is $49 for a single site and $99 for the Agency license, which covers unlimited sites. We kept it deliberately simple. Two plans, no add-on maze, and no feature locked inside a higher tier that you only discover after you pay. The single site plan is for the person finishing their own project. The Agency plan is for freelancers and studios shipping client builds, where a per-site fee would punish you for doing more work.
Both plans are a one-time payment with a 60-day money-back guarantee. Sixty days is longer than most, because the real test of a header plugin is a real build, and that takes time. Install it on a live project, and if it is not right for you, email us and we refund every cent.
One honest note about the launch. Right now Pro is a lifetime license, one payment and you are done. After the launch window it moves to annual billing. We are telling you that plainly instead of hiding it, because if a lifetime license matters to you, this is genuinely the moment for it. You will notice there is no countdown on this page and no pressure language anywhere. I would rather you buy because it solves a real problem on a real site than because a timer made you nervous.
Where We Take This Next
Pro is not the finish line. It is the thing that lets us keep investing in the free plugin and build the harder features the way they deserve to be built, with proper testing and support. More effects, more templates, and closer compatibility with how Elementor itself is changing are all on the road ahead, for both the free and the paid tier.
The plan is simple, and it is not changing. Keep listening, keep shipping what people actually ask for, and keep the free plugin genuinely free. Pro is how we make sure we can keep doing that for a long time.
If you have built something with Sticky Header Effects, I would honestly love to see it. Reply to me, or leave a review, and tell me what you made and what you wish the header could do next. I read every single one.
Thank you for trusting us with the top of your site.
Sagar Patel
Team Sticky Header Effects for Elementor
