Amzil Ayoub

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.

rich! @ etiviti

rich

This plugin is perfect for private message spam prevention. It allows site admin and users themselves to limit exactly who can send messages to the user.
This plugin creates an admin settings page called Restrict Messages. Here the site admin can choose to impose global restrictions over who can send messages to the user.
If message restrictions are delegated to the user, a user settings page is created at Profile>>Settings>>Messages.
Each of these settings pages, depending on which is active, allows private messaging to be restricted to:
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<li>Friend Connections</li>
<li>Follow Connections</li>
<li>Groups Connections – with further selection of public, private or hidden status levels.</li>
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The public setting allows connections from all groups to send messages to the user, otherwise private or public stipulate only messages from these types of groups.
Once a restriction has been implements, the plugin removes the private message from the users profile, removes the usename from the compose message send to auto-complete and rejects any messages send where the send to includes an excluded user.
This plugin was originally created by Rich @etivite and is now supported by Venutius.
<h3>Extra Configuration</h3>

BuddyPress Restrict Messages

Exactly what I needed to improve a situation on a client site's, and lovely to see @venutius supporting and maintaining this plugin! Thank you!

Does the job!

This plugin allows the site admin to restrict who can send private messages or to enable the users to choose themselves.

Easy Announcement Bar vs BuddyPress Restrict Messages