sandywp / plugins / unodock

UnoDock – Mobile Bottom Navigation

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An app-style bottom menu for mobile — fully customizable, with icons, colors, and links you control completely.

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v1.5.0 500+ installs WP 6.5+ PHP 8.0+

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UnoDock – Mobile Bottom Navigation running inside a SandyWP sandbox

What you get inside

8 screens
  • Ready-made templates — 12 designs across Classic, Floating Bar, and Dock Bar, ready to preview and apply

  • Add and manage your buttons, drag to reorder

  • Full control over every button — icon, text, link type (including WhatsApp and Call now), and more

  • Gradient backgrounds, live color previews, and an animated active-page underline

  • Glassmorphism — a blurred, semi-transparent background with adjustable tint and blur intensity

  • Flexible visibility and behavior settings, including sticky mode and iPhone safe-area support

  • Live preview — see exactly how the bar will look before saving

  • Dark mode for the settings panel itself, plus full control over icon, text, and bar dimensions

About this plugin

UnoDock adds a fixed navigation bar to the bottom of your site on mobile — the same familiar pattern used by every app your visitors already open every day. Pick your icons, your colors, your links, and your order. No code, no page builder gymnastics, no compromise.

Whether you run a blog, a store, a service business, or a membership site, UnoDock puts the pages that matter most one tap away — no more digging through a hamburger menu that most mobile visitors never even open.

– See it live –

Want to try it before installing? UnoizeStudio.com — the developer’s own site — runs UnoDock on every page. Open it on your phone and play with it directly: tap between sections, watch the active-state animation, feel how it responds. It’s the fastest way to know if the look and feel is right for your site.

See all UnoDock documentation here

– Why UnoDock –

  • Built for mobile, built for speed — assets only load when the bar actually shows, so there’s zero impact on desktop visitors or on pages where the bar is hidden
  • Genuinely customizable — solid colors, gradients, or a modern glass (blurred) background; your own icons; your own layout
  • No external dependencies — every icon and font is bundled locally, nothing is pulled from a third-party CDN, nothing phones home
  • Works with any theme or builder — UnoDock renders independently of your theme’s markup, Elementor, Gutenberg, or anything else you use
  • Accessible by default — proper ARIA labels and “current page” indicators, so screen readers announce the bar correctly

– Under the hood: built for speed –

Most navigation plugins stop at “it works.” UnoDock goes further — every part of it is built to feel instant:

  • Pages start loading before you even tap — UnoDock uses the modern Speculation Rules API (the same technology behind fast, app-like browsing in Chrome and Edge) to start fetching the destination the moment your finger touches the button, with automatic prefetching as a fallback on other browsers
  • Minified, locally-hosted assets — every script and stylesheet is minified and served from your own site, with no external CDN requests slowing things down
  • Conditional loading — nothing is loaded at all unless the bar is actually enabled and set to appear on that specific page
  • Instant visual feedback — buttons respond the moment you touch them, with no waiting for a page to finish loading before you see it register

– What’s included in the free version –

  • 2 to 6 buttons, dragged and dropped into whatever order you like
  • Three bar styles — Classic, Floating Bar, and Dock Bar — so you can choose the navigation shape that best fits your site
  • Three built-in icon libraries — Font Awesome, Dashicons, and Bootstrap Icons — over 1,400 icons in total, searchable and ready to use
  • Optional text label per button, positioned above or below the icon
  • Flexible link types — a URL, an existing page, WhatsApp, a direct phone call, Popup Maker, or the built-in Search with normal WordPress search plus product search for WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads, with a customizable placeholder for every Search button
  • Solid, gradient, or glass backgrounds — for the bar itself and for each button’s icon, including full glassmorphism (blurred, semi-transparent)
  • Instant tactile feedback when a button is tapped
  • A modern color picker with a live spectrum and hue selector
  • Active-button styling — separate active/inactive icon and text colors plus an animated underline, with global and per-button customization
  • 12 ready-made templates across Classic, Floating Bar and Dock Bar
  • Live cart and wishlist badges — the WooCommerce cart badge and YITH Wishlist badge update instantly, with no page reload. Cart Item Count is enabled by default on new buttons when WooCommerce is available
  • Flexible visibility rules — show the bar site-wide, on specific pages only, or everywhere except pages you choose
  • Sticky or static positioning, with safe-area support so it never overlaps the swipe gesture bar on notched iPhones
  • Hide on scroll — the bar tucks away on scroll down and returns on scroll up, a subtle, app-like touch
  • Automatic dark mode — the bar switches to its own dark color palette when the visitor’s device is set to dark mode
  • RTL support — mirrors the bar’s layout on right-to-left sites (Arabic, Hebrew, and more)
  • Export or import your full setup as a JSON file — perfect for backups or moving to a new site
  • One-click on/off toggle, a built-in cache tool, a settings repair tool, System Status inside Behavior → Maintenance, and full control over what happens on uninstall

– Go further with UnoDock PRO –

  • Two exclusive premium bar styles — Floating Notch and Pulse Notch bring a more distinctive, animated active state to your mobile navigation
  • 20 templates in total — including 8 exclusive PRO presets designed specifically for Floating Notch and Pulse Notch
  • Featured center button — make your most important action impossible to miss, with adjustable sizing from subtle to bold
  • Classic top corner radius — soften the Classic bar silhouette with adjustable rounded top corners
  • Tap animations (shrink & zoom) for extra tactile feedback
  • Vibration on tap on supported Android devices
  • Advanced audience visibility — show UnoDock only to logged-in or logged-out visitors
  • Restrict by user role — target specific logged-in WordPress roles
  • Sliding Menu Panel — turn a WordPress menu into a compact side panel or a fullscreen mobile navigation experience, with submenus, entrance effects, social icons, menu icons, optional fullscreen action buttons and your own logo
  • Priority support, straight from the developer

See UnoDock PRO →

This plugin bundles a subset of the Font Awesome Free icon font (Solid style), used under the SIL OFL 1.1 license (fonts) and CC BY 4.0 license (icons). See https://fontawesome.com/license/free.

This plugin also bundles a curated subset of Bootstrap Icons, used under the MIT license. See https://github.com/twbs/icons/blob/main/LICENSE. WordPress Dashicons are used directly from WordPress core and require no separate bundling or licensing note.

Questions

Does this work with any theme?

Yes. UnoDock renders its own fixed bar independently of your theme’s markup, and only appears on mobile-sized screens by default.

Does it slow down my site?

No. Styles and scripts are only loaded on the frontend when the bar is enabled and set to display on the current page — nothing loads on pages where the bar is hidden.

Does UnoDock load anything from external servers?

No. All icons and fonts are bundled locally with the plugin. No external CDN requests, no third-party tracking.

Is WooCommerce required?

No. WooCommerce is only used for optional WooCommerce-specific features such as Product Search and the live cart item count badge, and the plugin works fully without it.

How many buttons can I add?

Between 2 and 6 — the same on every version. Beyond 6, bottom nav bars stop being comfortable to use on a mobile screen.

Can I use my own icons?

UnoDock includes three built-in icon libraries — Font Awesome, Dashicons, and Bootstrap Icons — over 1,400 icons in total covering the vast majority of use cases — navigation, commerce, communication, and more.

Can I link a button to WhatsApp or a phone number?

Yes. Choose “WhatsApp” as the link type to open a chat with a number (and an optional pre-filled message) you set, or choose “Call now” to open the phone dialer directly.

Will UnoDock PRO overwrite my settings if I upgrade?

No. Activating a PRO license simply unlocks the additional options — your existing buttons and settings stay exactly as you configured them.

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