easylaunch

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


EasyBar

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

mkwebtech

<h4>Build conversion-focused CTAs, popups, sticky bars, floating buttons, and countdown timers in WordPress</h4>
<p>MkWebTech CTA Studio is a WordPress call-to-action builder for creating inline CTAs, popup CTAs, sticky announcement bars, floating action buttons, countdown timer offers, and conversion-focused buttons without writing code.</p>
<p>Use it to promote limited-time offers, collect more clicks, highlight lead magnets, drive visitors to sales pages, announce discounts, or add urgency with normal and evergreen countdown timers.</p>
<p>Unlike simple button plugins, MkWebTech CTA Studio includes a visual builder, live preview, device visibility controls, animation options, and built-in analytics for impressions, clicks, and conversion rate.</p>
<p>Perfect for bloggers, marketers, agencies, WooCommerce store owners, course creators, SaaS sites, and small businesses that need lightweight CTA blocks, promotional popups, floating quick-action buttons, and sticky bars that look polished and load from your own site.</p>
<h4>Create CTAs That Match Your Campaign</h4>
<p>Choose from four practical CTA display types:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Inline</strong> – Embed CTAs directly inside posts and pages</li>
<li><strong>Sticky Bar</strong> – Show a top or bottom announcement bar across your site</li>
<li><strong>Popup</strong> – Display timed popup CTAs with overlay and close controls</li>
<li><strong>Floating Buttons</strong> – Add icon-focused floating action buttons for phone, WhatsApp, social links, and quick actions</li>
</ul>
<h4>Countdown Timer and Evergreen Urgency</h4>
<p>Create urgency for launches, sales, webinars, coupons, product drops, booking deadlines, and seasonal campaigns.</p>
<p>Timer options include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Normal countdown timers with a fixed end date and time</li>
<li>Evergreen countdown timers for visitor-specific campaigns</li>
<li>Cookie, browser storage, and session-based evergreen detection</li>
<li>Restart options for evergreen campaigns</li>
<li>Timer expiry actions including hide, message, and redirect</li>
<li>Smooth timestamp-based frontend timer rendering to reduce skipped seconds and visual jumps</li>
</ul>
<h4>Built for Conversion Tracking</h4>
<p>MkWebTech CTA Studio helps you see how your CTAs perform. Built-in analytics track:</p>
<ul>
<li>Impressions</li>
<li>Button clicks</li>
<li>Conversion rate</li>
</ul>
<p>Stats are stored in your WordPress database, so you can understand CTA performance without adding an external analytics script just for simple CTA tracking.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Inline CTA blocks, sticky bars, popup CTAs, and floating action buttons</li>
<li>Modern visual builder with live preview</li>
<li>Built-in impression, click, and conversion rate tracking</li>
<li>Normal and evergreen countdown timers</li>
<li>Drift-free frontend timer engine with smooth digit rendering</li>
<li>Repeatable Floating Buttons with global and per-button styling controls</li>
<li>Advanced design controls for backgrounds, typography, spacing, shadows, and radius</li>
<li>Button customization with icons and gradients</li>
<li>Background options: solid color, gradient, image, or transparent</li>
<li>GSAP-powered entrance animations including fade, slide, zoom, and bounce</li>
<li>Display delay and animation duration controls</li>
<li>Device visibility (desktop, tablet, mobile)</li>
<li>Popup overlay click, ESC close, and scroll lock</li>
<li>Close button controls for sticky bars and popups</li>
<li>Shortcode support for manual CTA placement</li>
<li>Lightweight, self-hosted assets (no third-party requests)</li>
<li>Translation-ready and WordPress-friendly code structure</li>
</ul>
<h4>Common Use Cases</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add a call-to-action box inside blog posts</li>
<li>Show a sticky sale announcement bar</li>
<li>Create a popup for a limited-time offer</li>
<li>Add floating phone, WhatsApp, YouTube, Facebook, or custom action buttons</li>
<li>Add an evergreen countdown timer to a campaign</li>
<li>Promote coupons, webinars, lead magnets, consultations, or product launches</li>
<li>Track which CTA gets the most clicks</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>CTAs -> Add New</strong>.</li>
<li>Choose Inline, Sticky Bar, Popup, or Floating Buttons.</li>
<li>Add your heading, button text, button URL, and optional countdown timer. For Floating Buttons, add one or more icon buttons with URLs and optional hover text.</li>
<li>Customize colors, typography, spacing, background, animation, and close controls.</li>
<li>
<p>Publish and either:</p>
<ul>
<li>Enable auto display for Sticky Bar, Popup, or Floating Buttons CTAs, or</li>
<li>Use the shortcode for inline/manual placement:</li>
</ul>
<p>[mkwebtech_cta id=”123″]</p>
</li>
</ol>


MkWebTech CTA Studio

Create high-converting CTAs, popups, sticky bars, floating action buttons, and countdown timers with built-in click tracking and a visual WordPress CT …

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