easylaunch

EasyBar: Awesome Notification Bar is a lightweight, highly functional plugin designed to display customizable notification, announcement, or promotion bars.
It utilizes pure JavaScript to minimize impact on performance and includes advanced features like a countdown timer and several scrolling text (marquee) modes.
IMPORTANT FOR REVIEWERS: 
Upon activation, the plugin is enabled by default with a moving “Alternate Scroll” animation. You will see a blue moving notification bar on the frontend immediately.
Where to find settings: 
The settings page is NOT under “Settings”. You will find a dedicated “EasyBar” menu item directly in your WordPress main left sidebar (top-level menu).
Ideal for: 
* Announcing sales and limited-time promotions with a deadline. 
* Displaying critical site-wide alerts (e.g., shipping delays). 
* Showing urgent calls-to-action to maximize conversions.
<h3>✳️ Main Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Countdown Timer: Simple, precise timer utilizing UTC time standards.</li>
<li>Expiration Handling: Automatically replaces the timer with a custom “Expired Text” or hides the bar completely when the deadline is reached.</li>
<li>Scrolling Text (Marquee): Choose from Static, Scroll Left, Scroll Right, and Scroll Alternate animations with adjustable speed.</li>
<li>Full Styling: Easy-to-use settings for background color, text color, font size, bold/italic styles, and top/bottom margins.</li>
<li>Lightweight: Zero jQuery dependency for a faster front-end experience.</li>
<li>Translation-Ready: Uses the standard WordPress text domain <code>easybar</code>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>💡 Author Contact</h3>
Developed by Aleksei Sukhvoverkhov 
Website: <a href="https://easylaunch.eu" rel="nofollow ugc">EasyLaunch.eu</a> 
Email: easylaunchstudio@gmail.com
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
<h3>Disclaimer</h3>
This plugin is distributed free of charge, without any warranty, expressed or implied. 
There are no premium or paid versions of this plugin, nor are any planned. All current and future features will remain free. 
Custom development, integration requests, or specialized support may be handled individually by the author upon request.

EasyBar

A lightweight, pure JavaScript WordPress plugin to create and display highly customizable notification and promotion bars with countdown timers and sc …

alexgodlewski

The Lightweight High Performance Sticky Bar is perfect for announcements, promotions, or important messages that need visibility without disrupting the user experience. It adds a customizable sticky bar to the top of your website with options for a countdown timer.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Smooth Animations: Clean transitions when showing and hiding the bar</li>
<li>Customizable Text: Set your own message to display</li>
<li>Color Picker: Choose any background color with the built-in WordPress color picker</li>
<li>Cookie Integration: Bar stays hidden for visitors who close it</li>
<li>Configurable Duration: Set how many hours the bar stays hidden after being closed</li>
<li>Admin Bar Compatible: Automatically adjusts position when WordPress admin bar is present</li>
<li>Content-Friendly: Adds padding to avoid covering your website content</li>
<li>Lightweight: Minimal impact on page load times and performance</li>
<li>Mobile-Friendly: Fully responsive design that works on all devices</li>
<li>No Dependencies: Doesn’t require any external libraries beyond jQuery (included with WordPress)</li>
<li>Countdown Timer: Display a countdown to a specific date and time</li>
<li>Cache-Compatible: Works with page caching plugins</li>
<li>Customizable Countdown: Position, colors, labels, and end actions</li>
</ul>
<h3>Technical Details</h3>
The sticky bar appears at the top of your website as the first element in the header. It includes:
<ul>
<li>Smart Positioning: Detects and adjusts for the WordPress admin bar when logged in</li>
<li>Body Padding: Automatically adds padding to prevent content from being hidden</li>
<li>Responsive Layout: Adapts to all screen sizes from mobile to desktop</li>
<li>Performance Optimized: JavaScript and CSS are minified and only loaded when needed</li>
<li>Cookie-Based Memory: Respects user preferences by remembering when they’ve dismissed the bar</li>
<li>Countdown Feature: Display days, hours, minutes, and seconds remaining until a target date</li>
<li>AJAX Updates: Ensures countdown accuracy even with cached pages</li>
</ul>
<h4>Configuration Options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bar Text: The message displayed in the sticky bar</li>
<li>Background Color: Color picker for the bar background</li>
<li>Hide Duration: Hours the bar stays hidden after closing</li>
<li>Enable Bar: Toggle to activate/deactivate the bar</li>
<li>Enable Countdown: Toggle to enable the countdown timer</li>
<li>Target Date: The date and time that the countdown targets</li>
<li>After Countdown Ends: What happens when countdown reaches zero (Show Zeros, Remove Countdown, or Remove Bar)</li>
<li>Countdown Position: Where to display the countdown relative to text</li>
<li>Numbers Background: Background color for countdown digits</li>
<li>Numbers Font Color: Text color for countdown digits</li>
<li>Show Labels: Toggle to show/hide time unit labels (Days, Hours, etc.)</li>
<li>Labels Position: Display labels above or below the numbers</li>
<li>Custom Labels: Customize the text for each time unit label</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or higher</li>
<li>JavaScript enabled in the browser</li>
<li>Cookies enabled for remembering user preferences</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.0 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or higher</li>
<li>JavaScript enabled in the browser</li>
<li>Cookies enabled for remembering user preferences</li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.
<h3>Credits</h3>
Developed by Alex Godlewski, <a href="https://hyroes.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Hyroes.com</a>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
This plugin sets a cookie (HyroesStickyBarClosed) in the visitor’s browser when they close the sticky bar. This cookie only stores a simple “closed” status and does not collect any personal information or track users.
The cookie expires after the configured number of hours (default: 24 hours). No data is sent to external servers except for the AJAX requests used to update the countdown timer, which do not contain any personal information.

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