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Sticky UI Element Obscures Content on Mobile on WordPress
A sticky header, footer, banner, or chat widget covers a significant portion of the mobile viewport, reducing readable content area and potentially obscuring CTAs.
Issue ID: MOBILE-STICKY-UI-001Severity: moderateEffort: S
Why this matters
A sticky header, footer, banner, or chat widget covers a significant portion of the mobile viewport, reducing readable content area and potentially obscuring CTAs. This affects usability on phones, which is where most local-business traffic now happens.
WordPress fix path
How to fix this on WordPress
Use the page editor, theme, or SEO tooling depending on where this issue lives.
- 1Inspect the page and theme output.
- 2Apply the fix in the most direct place.
- 3Publish and validate with a re-audit.
After you fix it
- ✓Test on mobile and confirm sticky elements do not obscure primary content or CTAs
Same fix, other platforms
Fix sticky ui element obscures content on mobile on a different CMS
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