Amzil Ayoub

<p>Easy Announcement Bar plugin is a powerful yet simple tool to display eye-catching announcements such as important messages, promotions, or updates with ease on your WordPress site. With this plugin, you can:</p>
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<p>Add a scrolling text bar at the top or bottom of your site.</p>
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<p>Customize the text, colors, and scroll speed.</p>
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<p>Choose the scroll direction (left to right or right to left).</p>
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<p>Set an auto-close timer to hide the bar after a specified time.</p>
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<p>Display the bar on specific pages or sitewide.</p>
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<p>Add emojis, icons, and symbols to make your announcements stand out.</p>
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<p>Include a close button for users to dismiss the bar.</p>
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<p>Perfect for promoting sales, new arrivals, important updates, or any other message you want to highlight!</p>
<h3>How it works</h3>
<p>After activation, go to  <strong>Announcement</strong> in your WordPress admin menu. And configure the following settings:</p>
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<p>Enable Bar: Check this box to enable the announcement bar.</p>
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<p>Announcement Text: Enter the text you want to display. You can use emojis, symbols.</p>
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<p>Text Color: Choose the color of the text using the color picker.</p>
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<p>Bar Color: Choose the background color of the bar using the color picker.</p>
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<p>Text Speed: Set the speed of the scrolling text (in seconds).</p>
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<p>Text Direction: Choose whether the text moves from left to right or right to left.</p>
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<p>Bar Position: Choose whether the bar appears at the top or bottom of the page.</p>
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<p>Auto-Close Timer: Set the number of seconds after which the bar will automatically close (set to 0 to disable).</p>
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<p>Show on Specific Pages: Select the pages where the bar should appear. Leave empty to show on all pages.</p>
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<p>And click Save Changes to apply your settings. Visit your website to see the announcement bar in action. The bar will appear at the top or bottom of the page, or depending on your settings.</p>


Easy Announcement Bar

Easy Announcement Bar plugin adds a customizable, scrolling announcement bar to your WordPress site.

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Ismail

<p>bbPress Messages – Simple yet powerful private messaging system tailored for bbPress.</p>
<h3>What’s New in 2.0?</h3>
<h4>Fully Optimized</h4>
<p>Now bbPress Messages loads faster due to optimization and messages caching.</p>
<h4>Background Schedules</h4>
<p>For better experience and load time, now the tasks are processed in the background. Tasks that would take some time to finish such as email notifications, after send events, cleanup schedules and others.</p>
<h4>Translation ready</h4>
<p>Now you can use the languages files to <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers" rel="nofollow ugc">translate</a> bbPress Messages to your language. You can also contribute your translations and <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbp-messages" rel="nofollow ugc">help translate this plugin</a>.</p>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<p>We’ve added couple shortcodes and rewrote older shortcodes, you can find out about shortcodes in the shortcodes tab in the settings page.</p>
<h4>Widgets</h4>
<p>We’ve redesigned the widgets for 2.0! Navigate to your dashboard and search for bbPM widgets now.</p>
<p>Other than that, bbPress Messages 2.0 is easy to extend, supports multisite installations, and we will be working on some free addons to extend its features and improve more. Please consult the project Github page <a href="https://github.com/elhardoum/bbp-messages" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/elhardoum/bbp-messages</a> to report a bug, contribute to the project or make suggestions.</p>
<p>If this is the first time you update, you should be migrating your older messages from the legacy database table to the new one. This could be done using the import tab in settings.</p>
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<p><em>More documentation coming soon..</em></p>
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bbPress Messages

Giving myself a review..
Works perfect, simple code, clean design, you can use this plugin with or without BuddyPress with no issues or conflicts.



simple and working

Works Fine but the text is written in hard. No translation possible. Not usable in my lang ! Too bad.

Front-end-pm is a very good alternative.

Translation impossible

I could customize the plugin via filters etc. Works good, so go ahead and install it. 
We translated the plugin ourself via PoEdit and we want to give that back.

Does what it says and very happy with it as a developer

bbPress Messages - Simple yet powerful private messaging system tailored for bbPress.

Easy Announcement Bar vs bbPress Messages