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.

Lightweight High Performance Sticky Bar

Add a customizable sticky notification bar with countdown functionality to your website with minimal performance impact.

Radislav

Barilo Light allows site admins to easily display a custom message in a stylish top bar across their site. Useful for:
<ul>
<li>Announcements or alerts</li>
<li>Holiday greetings</li>
<li>Special deals and promotions</li>
<li>Maintenance notices</li>
<li>Welcoming new visitors</li>
<li>Contact info (email and phone)</li>
</ul>
Features:
<ul>
<li>Simple message text with optional HTML links (e.g. <code><a href="...">Click here</a></code>)</li>
<li>Background and text color pickers (choose any color, not just presets)</li>
<li>Optional phone link (tappable on mobile)</li>
<li>Optional email link</li>
<li>Option to temporarily hide the bar (only admin can do that)</li>
<li>Optional “hide after date” – automatically stop showing the bar after a specific day</li>
<li>Designed to be lightweight and easy to use</li>
</ul>

Barilo Light – Top Bar Message

A free plugin to display a customizable top bar message on your WordPress site. Great for announcements, greetings, notifications or promotions.

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