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 …

Igor Benic

Goran87

Boost your user engagement!
As featured on <a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-boost-user-engagement-with-swifty-bar-for-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">wpbegginer</a>, <a href="https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/resources/10-awesome-new-and-free-plugins-released-on-wordpress-org-in-2015" rel="nofollow ugc">elegantthemes</a> as top10 plugins of 2015, and on product hunt as product of the day.
Swifty bar will adds sticky bar at the bottom of post that shows category, post title, author, time needed to read article, share buttons together with share count, and previous/next post links. This plugin can easily replace your social share buttons while giving readers better experience with much more options. Its fast, coded with best practice, super light and will not slow down your site.
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Major features in Swifty Bar include:
<ul>
<li>Shows current post category, post title and authors first and last name.</li>
<li>Shows estimated time that is needed for visitor to read your article.</li>
<li>Share buttons for most popular social networks (new ones comming soon).</li>
<li>Number of Comments and click to scroll to comment form.</li>
<li>Previous/Next Post Links with nice preview on hover.</li>
<li>Super light, clean code that will not slow down your site.</li>
<li>Admin Panel to customize each module.</li>
<li>Supports custom post types.</li>
<li>Multiple colors and two type of icons</li>
<li>Share counter</li>
</ul>
Share Count in 1.2!
We introduced share count in latest version of swifty bar. We are saving share counts inside WP Transients to keep things fast and fetching new shares once user clicks on any of the share icons, if no clicks have been made, share will refresh once daily, that way site is doing minimal requests to the share APIs which boosts its speed by ALOT.
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If you have any suggestions/feedback to improve Swifty Bar, please get in touch with me via email goranefbl@gmail.com .

Swifty Bar, sticky bar by WPGens

Adds sticky bar at the bottom of post that shows category,post title, author, time needed to read article, share buttons and previous/next post links

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