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

Easy Announcement Bar

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

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This plugin is perfect if you want to use messaging as a way of differentiating or monetizing your BP Site. It’s also good for controlling internal spam. You can control access to messaging and who the user can message. It also allows quotas to be set for each role and maximum message size. The options available are:
Based on each role you can disable or set limits on messaging.
Private Messaging:
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<li>Messaging Disabled – No access to messaging for this role.</li>
<li>Admin Only – The role can only message site admin.</li>
<li>Reply Only – The role can only message users who have previously sent them a message. Admin messages excluded from limitation.</li>
<li>Full Messaging – The role has unrestricted access to messaging.</li>
<li>Messaging quota; 1 to unlimited emails per month, week or day. Messages to admin not counted. </li>
<li>Message Character Limit: Enforce maximum number of characters per message.</li>
<li>Notification Email content length restrictions: Allows you to display only the first few words of the message so users will visit the site to view the message.</li>
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Public Messaging ( @Mentions and Activity Updates )
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<li>@Mentions Disabled – No access to public messaging for this role.</li>
<li>@Mentions Admin Only – The role can only public message site admin.</li>
<li>@Mentions Reply Only – The role can only public message users who have previously sent them a public message.</li>
<li>@Mentions all – The role has unrestricted access to pubic messaging.</li>
<li>@Mentions quota; 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000, unlimited emails per month, week or day. Messages to admin not counted. </li>
<li>Activity Updates including Public Messages: Enforce maximum number of characters per Activity Update or Comment.</li>
<li>Notification Email content length restrictions: Allows you to display only the first few words of the message so users will visit the site to view the message.</li>
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Notification Emails
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<li>Set size limit for the usermessage token – the notificaton message content. This is useful to prevent the entire message being sent in the notification meaning users will need to visit the site to read the full message.</li>
<li>Enable Admin notification of user deletions.</li>
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This plugin needs BuddyPress to work and it supports both BP Legacy and BP Nouveau themes.
This plugin controls all aspects of BP messaging and makes sure the user only sees the messaging options they are entitled to.

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