alexgodlewski

<p>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.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Smooth Animations</strong>: Clean transitions when showing and hiding the bar</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Text</strong>: Set your own message to display</li>
<li><strong>Color Picker</strong>: Choose any background color with the built-in WordPress color picker</li>
<li><strong>Cookie Integration</strong>: Bar stays hidden for visitors who close it</li>
<li><strong>Configurable Duration</strong>: Set how many hours the bar stays hidden after being closed</li>
<li><strong>Admin Bar Compatible</strong>: Automatically adjusts position when WordPress admin bar is present</li>
<li><strong>Content-Friendly</strong>: Adds padding to avoid covering your website content</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight</strong>: Minimal impact on page load times and performance</li>
<li><strong>Mobile-Friendly</strong>: Fully responsive design that works on all devices</li>
<li><strong>No Dependencies</strong>: Doesn’t require any external libraries beyond jQuery (included with WordPress)</li>
<li><strong>Countdown Timer</strong>: Display a countdown to a specific date and time</li>
<li><strong>Cache-Compatible</strong>: Works with page caching plugins</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Countdown</strong>: Position, colors, labels, and end actions</li>
</ul>
<h3>Technical Details</h3>
<p>The sticky bar appears at the top of your website as the first element in the header. It includes:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Smart Positioning</strong>: Detects and adjusts for the WordPress admin bar when logged in</li>
<li><strong>Body Padding</strong>: Automatically adds padding to prevent content from being hidden</li>
<li><strong>Responsive Layout</strong>: Adapts to all screen sizes from mobile to desktop</li>
<li><strong>Performance Optimized</strong>: JavaScript and CSS are minified and only loaded when needed</li>
<li><strong>Cookie-Based Memory</strong>: Respects user preferences by remembering when they’ve dismissed the bar</li>
<li><strong>Countdown Feature</strong>: Display days, hours, minutes, and seconds remaining until a target date</li>
<li><strong>AJAX Updates</strong>: Ensures countdown accuracy even with cached pages</li>
</ul>
<h4>Configuration Options</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bar Text</strong>: The message displayed in the sticky bar</li>
<li><strong>Background Color</strong>: Color picker for the bar background</li>
<li><strong>Hide Duration</strong>: Hours the bar stays hidden after closing</li>
<li><strong>Enable Bar</strong>: Toggle to activate/deactivate the bar</li>
<li><strong>Enable Countdown</strong>: Toggle to enable the countdown timer</li>
<li><strong>Target Date</strong>: The date and time that the countdown targets</li>
<li><strong>After Countdown Ends</strong>: What happens when countdown reaches zero (Show Zeros, Remove Countdown, or Remove Bar)</li>
<li><strong>Countdown Position</strong>: Where to display the countdown relative to text</li>
<li><strong>Numbers Background</strong>: Background color for countdown digits</li>
<li><strong>Numbers Font Color</strong>: Text color for countdown digits</li>
<li><strong>Show Labels</strong>: Toggle to show/hide time unit labels (Days, Hours, etc.)</li>
<li><strong>Labels Position</strong>: Display labels above or below the numbers</li>
<li><strong>Custom Labels</strong>: 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>
<p>This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Developed by Alex Godlewski, <a href="https://hyroes.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Hyroes.com</a></p>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>


Lightweight High Performance Sticky Bar

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

Zotabox

<ul>
<li>Responsive and fully customizable hello bar. Promote News, Special Offers, Free Gifts, Discount Codes and contact info with welcome header bar.</li>
<li>20+ more popular onsite marketing tools included to increase your sales and grow your subscribers</li>
<li>No coding required. Easy Installation. Targeting available.</li>
</ul>
<p>Zotabox is a premium plugin with a 30 day free trial (no credit card req’d) and a 30 day money back guarantee for our package of 20+ promotional sales tools.</p>
<p><a href="https://info.zotabox.com/?utm_source=Wordpress&utm_medium=App&utm_campaign=Wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">Zotabox</a> is an easy to use package of 20+ promotional sales tools for your website.</p>
<h4>YOUR ZOTABOX PACKAGE INCLUDES:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easy Popup – to promote your specials and increase your subscribers with custom images, timers and coupons</li>
<li>Header Bar – to promote your specials and increase your subscribers. Countdown timer and coupons included.</li>
<li>Landing Page Builder – create new landing pages with ease</li>
<li>Slider – slide out box to promote specials, video, collect emails etc.</li>
<li>Push Notifications – collect subscribers and send out push notifications</li>
<li>Contact Form Builder – customize fields, departments, attach files, auto-response etc.</li>
<li>Facebook Live Chat – Support your customers via Facebook</li>
<li>Social Buttons – encourage followers to join your site</li>
<li>Easy Store Locator – make it easy for your customers to find you</li>
<li>Testimonial – have your customers promote for you</li>
<li>Social Review – automatically display your latest facebook or google reviews</li>
<li>Notification Box – fade in notification boxes to promote your products</li>
<li>Stickers – promote latest news, new arrivals, blogs etc</li>
<li>Promo Box – to promote sales, products, new arrivals</li>
<li>Easy Banner – upload your custom image and link to any page</li>
<li>Social Mobile Tools – so customers can contact you on mobile</li>
<li>EU Cookie Notification – ask EU visitors to accept cookies</li>
<li>Back to Top Buttons – enhanced, stylish back to top buttons</li>
</ul>
<h4>Extra Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Zotabox is integrated with 20+ email service providers including Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Aweber, Get Response & Campaign Monitor etc.</li>
<li>Zotabox is also integrated with 20 + social accounts including Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Youtube, Instagram, Pinterest, Linked In etc.</li>
<li>Add countdown timers, custom images, coupons, email capture fields to tools</li>
<li>Loads asynchronously. Won’t slow down your website.</li>
<li>No coding needed. Fully customizable.</li>
<li>Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel Integration</li>
<li>Custom CSS and Custom HTML available</li>
<li>User-friendly and responsive design.</li>
<li>Mobile friendly</li>
</ul>
<h4>Targeting Rules Include:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display on Certain Pages </li>
<li>Time on Site</li>
<li>Scroll Down Page</li>
<li>Minimum Screen Size</li>
<li>Exit Intent (for some tools)</li>
<li>New, Returning Visitor</li>
<li>Set Display/Expire Date</li>
<li>Geo Targeting</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium Plans:</h4>
<p><strong>Starter</strong> – 3,000 customer visits per month. $9.99/month. Premium versions of all tools.</p>
<p><strong>Express</strong> – 15,000 customer visits per month. $19.99/month. Premium versions of all tools. Premium versions of all tools.</p>
<p><strong>Platinum</strong> – 150,000 customer visits per month – $49.99/month.</p>
<p>All Plans include: multiple websites, multiple tools on same website, no branding, email service integration, custom CSS, custom images, google analytics integration etc.</p>
<p>Guarantee: Get your first payment back if you do not increase your sales in 30 days.</p>
<p>Custom Plans also available.</p>
<p>See our <a href="https://zotabox.com/membership/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">full pricing plan here</a>.</p>
<p>Works great with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ecwid-shopping-cart/" rel="ugc">Ecwid Shopping Cart plugin</a>.</p>
<p>To avoid conflicts with custom themes we recommend manually <a href="https://info.zotabox.com/wordpress-woocommerce-embed-code-instructions/" rel="nofollow ugc">embedding our code</a>.</p>
<h4>ABOUT ZOTABOX</h4>
<p>Zotabox is based in Hanoi, Vietnam. We have built high quality website marketing tools to increase your sales since 2013. Zotabox includes 20+ onsite tools to boost your sales and get more subscribers.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Zotabox is a 3rd party service provider. A Zotabox account will be created automatically and you can delete it at any time.</p>
<p>You will receive important account, informational and promotional emails from us and remarketing ads via Google Adwords. For information to opt out of these ads and emails at any time, please visit <a href="https://info.zotabox.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">our privacy page</a>.</p>
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Header Bar

Easy to use plugin, does what you expect it to.
Really like that the free version supports to show the message only on several pages and once a day.

The only dislike is that you have to configure it on an external site.

Easy use

Header Bar to promote special offers, ebook download, free gifts. Responsive and fully customizable hello bar. 20+ onsite marketing tools included

Lightweight High Performance Sticky Bar vs Header Bar