Announcement Bar
The Announcement Bar is a WordPress plugin built by Themify that helps you manage announcements on your website quickly, easily, and more efficiently. Automate and schedule announcements for any specified time range, customize the look and feel of the Announcement Bar using our beautiful design presets or your own style and designs, and have it work with any WordPress theme right out of the box. Responsive and retina ready, the Announcement Bar highlights your content and messages to visitors, regardless of their device or platform.
Scheduled Announcements
Create custom announcements, shown at exactly the right time you need, for the exact duration that you need. Specify a time frame for announcements to be shown, and rest easy knowing that your announcements will be displayed without any additional work required.
Add announcement
Set the time
Done!
Little Plugin = Many Features
The Announcement Bar gives you an array of design presets and presentation options to choose from, giving you full control over the look and feel of your announcements.
Text Alignment
- Left
- Center
- Right
Position
- Top
- Bottom
- with Absolute or Fixed position options
Font Style
- Default
- Serif
- Old Style
- Slab Serif
- Script
Colors and Styles
- Yellow
- Blue
- Green
- Pink
- Purple
- Orange
- Black
- Gray
- White
- Paper
- Notes
- Paper Clip
- Bookmark
Scrolling Options
- Slide
- Fade
- Continuous
- along with options to control the number of visible posts and scroll
Close Button
- Toggle-able
- Regular close
- None
- Additional options exist to remember button states on the user’s browser, to prevent bugging your users if they’ve already closed the announcement bar.
Custom Styling
- Color
- Background
- Google Fonts
Display It Anywhere
The Announcement Bar is customizable in its appearance, but also customizable with regard to where it lives. Announcements can be displayed on a sticky bar on posts or pages, on sidebar widgets, wherever the shortcode is posted!
Sticky Bar
The Announcement Bar can be shown as a sticky bar site-wide, or on a per post or by page basis.
Shortcode
Use shortcode to display your announcements anywhere inside of a post, page, or template!
Widget
Drop the built-in Announcement Widget in any widgetized area of your theme.
More Content
Include a ‘More…’ tag on your announcements, allowing visitors to click into the announcement and toggle more content. Additionally, use other shortcodes like column, button, and map, to add additional content inside the Announcement Bar.
Plugin Compatibility
The Announcement Bar plugin works with other plugins, such as the Themify Builder plugin, WooCommerce, newsletter plugins, and more!
Builder Plugin
Create more content using the Themify Builder plugin, creating the more content container using the Themify Builder itself. Check out the demo to see it in action!
WooCommerce
The Announcement Bar plugin works with WooCommerce-specific shortcodes, allowing you to advertise featured products and products that are on sale, right inside of the announcement!
MailPoet Newsletters
With the MailPoet Newsletters plugin, you can display newsletter sign-up forms inside of the announcement bar, making it easier than ever to grow your newsletters’ subscriber numbers!