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Announcer is the ultimate WordPress notification bar plugin designed to help you display important messages, promotions, cookie notices, and alerts anywhere on your site. Whether you want to welcome new visitors, drive traffic to a seasonal sale, or ensure GDPR compliance with a cookie banner, Announcer makes it incredibly easy.
Built to be lightweight and user-friendly, you can create eye-catching sticky bars that capture attention without slowing down your site. Add powerful Call-To-Action (CTA) buttons, set up customized display rules, and start boosting your user engagement and conversion rates in minutes.
See it in action: View the <a href="https://wpdemos.aakashweb.com/announcer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=ancr-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Live demo</a> of the plugin!
<h3>⭐ Why Choose Announcer? (Core Features)</h3>
Announcer is packed with market-leading features to give you complete control over your website banners:
<ul>
<li>Unlimited Announcements: Create and manage multiple notification bars at the same time.</li>
<li>Flexible Positioning: Display messages at the top or bottom of your site.</li>
<li>Smart Stacking: Neatly stack multiple banners if more than one announcement is active on a single page.</li>
<li>Sticky & Fixed Layouts: Keep your message in view as users scroll, or fix it to the top of the page.</li>
<li>Advanced Scheduling: Automate your promo bars by scheduling a start and end date/time.</li>
<li>Call-To-Action (CTA) Buttons: Drive clicks with customizable buttons that can open links or dismiss the banner.</li>
<li>Horizontal Ticker: Display longer text beautifully with a smooth scrolling news-ticker effect.</li>
<li>Smart Cookie Control: Allow users to permanently close notices, or set them to re-display after a specific time.</li>
<li>Rich Content Support: Insert any content into your banner, including images, HTML, or shortcodes from other plugins (like forms).</li>
<li>Conditional Display Rules: Target specific audiences by showing banners only on certain pages, posts, or categories.</li>
<li>100% Mobile Responsive: Designed mobile-first to ensure your announcements look perfect on any screen size.</li>
<li>Customization Made Easy: Choose from multiple layout options and unlimited color palettes to match your brand.</li>
<li>Trigger Options: Automatically display banners based on a time delay or user page scroll.</li>
<li>Smooth Animations: Engage users with sleek open and close transition effects.</li>
<li>Multilingual Ready: Target announcements based on your WPML translated post language.</li>
<li>Lightweight & Secure: Clean code that won’t bloat your site, fully GDPR compliant.</li>
</ul>
<h3>🚛 Popular Use Cases & Ideas</h3>
You can use the Announcer plugin to create a wide variety of sticky messages, including:
<ul>
<li>Promo Bars: Highlight sales, discount coupons, and seasonal offers.</li>
<li>Compliance: Display a GDPR-friendly cookie consent banner or privacy policy updates.</li>
<li>Lead Generation: Embed newsletter sign-ups (Mailchimp, WPForms) directly into the banner via shortcodes.</li>
<li>Alerts & Updates: Share important site-wide notices, business hours.</li>
<li>Content Promotion: Drive traffic to new blog posts, product launches, or special events.</li>
<li>Welcome Messages: Greet new visitors with custom introductory notes.</li>
<li>Social Proof & Feedback: Share quick links, social icons, or ask for customer feedback.</li>
</ul>
<h3>💎 PRO version</h3>
Ready to take your announcements to the next level? The PRO version offers advanced marketing tools designed to maximize your conversions and give you pinpoint targeting capabilities:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/announcer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=ancr-pro#pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Multiple Messages (Ticker/Slider)</a> – Maximize your screen real estate. Add a slider or auto-playing ticker to display multiple messages within a single announcement bar, complete with next/prev navigation.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/announcer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=ancr-pro#pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Urgency Countdown Timers</a> – Skyrocket your sales! Embed fully customizable countdown timers right into your promo bars to create FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) for limited-time offers.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/announcer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=ancr-pro#pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Animations</a> – Grab instant attention with eye-catching entrance animations for your banners and funky effects for your CTA buttons.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/announcer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=ancr-pro#pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Smart Visitor Targeting</a> – Show the right message to the right user. Conditionally display banners based on traffic source (referrer), device type, OS, browser, user login status, user role, or even visit count!</li>
<li><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/announcer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=ancr-pro#pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Shortcode Placement</a> – Need a banner inside a specific post? Use shortcodes to place your announcements exactly where you want them, inside pages, posts, or theme templates.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/announcer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=ancr-pro#pro" rel="nofollow ugc">One-Click Duplicate</a> – Save time by instantly cloning your favorite announcement setups.</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/announcer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=ancr-pro#pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Check out the PRO version</a> | <a href="https://wpdemos.aakashweb.com/announcer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=ancr-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">View PRO Demo</a>
<h3>👋 Feedback & Support</h3>
We love hearing from our users! If you run into any issues, have questions, or want to share a feature request, please reach out to us in the <a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/forum/discuss/wordpress-plugins/announcer/" rel="nofollow ugc">Official Support Forum</a>.

Announcer – Sticky Message Banner & Notification Bar

I tried a few other banner plugins but none of them did what I needed: multiple banners displaying conditionally on specific pages.  Announcer got the job done - thank you!  A+

Worked as advertised!

After searching through quite a few announcement bar plugins, I found that this is the best one. The conditional display settings are awesome. 

Well built admin interface and front end works perfectly.

Add customizable WordPress notification bar to display announcements, promotions, coupons, or news at the top or bottom of your website.

Zotabox

<ul>
<li>Responsive and fully customizable hello bar. Promote News, Special Offers, Free Gifts, Discount Codes and contact info with welcome header bar.</li>
<li>20+ more popular onsite marketing tools included to increase your sales and grow your subscribers</li>
<li>No coding required. Easy Installation. Targeting available.</li>
</ul>
Zotabox is a premium plugin with a 30 day free trial (no credit card req’d) and a 30 day money back guarantee for our package of 20+ promotional sales tools.
<a href="https://info.zotabox.com/?utm_source=Wordpress&utm_medium=App&utm_campaign=Wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">Zotabox</a> is an easy to use package of 20+ promotional sales tools for your website.
<h4>YOUR ZOTABOX PACKAGE INCLUDES:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easy Popup – to promote your specials and increase your subscribers with custom images, timers and coupons</li>
<li>Header Bar – to promote your specials and increase your subscribers. Countdown timer and coupons included.</li>
<li>Landing Page Builder – create new landing pages with ease</li>
<li>Slider – slide out box to promote specials, video, collect emails etc.</li>
<li>Push Notifications – collect subscribers and send out push notifications</li>
<li>Contact Form Builder – customize fields, departments, attach files, auto-response etc.</li>
<li>Facebook Live Chat – Support your customers via Facebook</li>
<li>Social Buttons – encourage followers to join your site</li>
<li>Easy Store Locator – make it easy for your customers to find you</li>
<li>Testimonial – have your customers promote for you</li>
<li>Social Review – automatically display your latest facebook or google reviews</li>
<li>Notification Box – fade in notification boxes to promote your products</li>
<li>Stickers – promote latest news, new arrivals, blogs etc</li>
<li>Promo Box – to promote sales, products, new arrivals</li>
<li>Easy Banner – upload your custom image and link to any page</li>
<li>Social Mobile Tools – so customers can contact you on mobile</li>
<li>EU Cookie Notification – ask EU visitors to accept cookies</li>
<li>Back to Top Buttons – enhanced, stylish back to top buttons</li>
</ul>
<h4>Extra Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Zotabox is integrated with 20+ email service providers including Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Aweber, Get Response & Campaign Monitor etc.</li>
<li>Zotabox is also integrated with 20 + social accounts including Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Youtube, Instagram, Pinterest, Linked In etc.</li>
<li>Add countdown timers, custom images, coupons, email capture fields to tools</li>
<li>Loads asynchronously. Won’t slow down your website.</li>
<li>No coding needed. Fully customizable.</li>
<li>Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel Integration</li>
<li>Custom CSS and Custom HTML available</li>
<li>User-friendly and responsive design.</li>
<li>Mobile friendly</li>
</ul>
<h4>Targeting Rules Include:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display on Certain Pages </li>
<li>Time on Site</li>
<li>Scroll Down Page</li>
<li>Minimum Screen Size</li>
<li>Exit Intent (for some tools)</li>
<li>New, Returning Visitor</li>
<li>Set Display/Expire Date</li>
<li>Geo Targeting</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium Plans:</h4>
Starter – 3,000 customer visits per month. $9.99/month. Premium versions of all tools.
Express – 15,000 customer visits per month. $19.99/month. Premium versions of all tools. Premium versions of all tools.
Platinum – 150,000 customer visits per month – $49.99/month.
All Plans include: multiple websites, multiple tools on same website, no branding, email service integration, custom CSS, custom images, google analytics integration etc.
Guarantee: Get your first payment back if you do not increase your sales in 30 days.
Custom Plans also available.
See our <a href="https://zotabox.com/membership/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">full pricing plan here</a>.
Works great with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ecwid-shopping-cart/" rel="ugc">Ecwid Shopping Cart plugin</a>.
To avoid conflicts with custom themes we recommend manually <a href="https://info.zotabox.com/wordpress-woocommerce-embed-code-instructions/" rel="nofollow ugc">embedding our code</a>.
<h4>ABOUT ZOTABOX</h4>
Zotabox is based in Hanoi, Vietnam. We have built high quality website marketing tools to increase your sales since 2013. Zotabox includes 20+ onsite tools to boost your sales and get more subscribers.
Note: Zotabox is a 3rd party service provider. A Zotabox account will be created automatically and you can delete it at any time.
You will receive important account, informational and promotional emails from us and remarketing ads via Google Adwords. For information to opt out of these ads and emails at any time, please visit <a href="https://info.zotabox.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">our privacy page</a>.
<h3>Arbitrary section 1</h3>

Header Bar

Easy to use plugin, does what you expect it to.
Really like that the free version supports to show the message only on several pages and once a day.

The only dislike is that you have to configure it on an external site.

Easy use

Header Bar to promote special offers, ebook download, free gifts. Responsive and fully customizable hello bar. 20+ onsite marketing tools included

Announcer – Sticky Message Banner & Notification Bar vs Header Bar