Brian Messenlehner

<p>The WP-Announcements plugin is ideal for websites or blogs that would like to display a site wide announcement, featured post, important message, community notice, advertisement, survey form, email subscription form, emergency alert or anything you can publish in a post as a marquee or popup window using ShadowBox-JS or ThickBox.</p>
<p>WP-Announcements provides two announcement options:</p>
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<p>A customizable marquee that displays an assigned post title linked to that actual post. The marquee can be displayed by calling the php function wp_announce_marquee(”) anywhere in your theme, using the WP-Announce-Marquee Widget or using the Shortcode [wp_announce_marquee] anywhere in your post or page content.</p>
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<p>A popup window using ShadowBox-JS or ThickBox that displays the title and content of an assigned announcement post. The popup will only show up once for each website visitor per active popup post as a cookie is created. You can also set a popup window for each time a website member logs into the admin dashboard.</p>
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<p>WP-Announcements activates checkboxes on the add/edit post page to allow easy assignment of announcement posts. An admin page under the settings tab is also included to toggle announcements on or off and to manage all posts saved as announcements for easy retrieval and reuse of reoccurring announcements in the future.</p>
<p>Works with WordPress and WordPress MU 2.8.1</p>
<p>For more information check out:</p>
<p><a href="http://webdevstudios.com/support/wordpress-plugins/wp-announcements" rel="nofollow ugc"></a>WP-Annoucements Page</p>
<p><a href="http://webdevstudios.com/blog/wp-announcements-wordpress-announcement-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc"></a>WP-Annoucements Post</p>
<p><a href="http://webdevstudios.com/support/forum/wp-announcements" rel="nofollow ugc"></a>WP-Announcements Support Forum</p>
<h3>Plugin Support</h3>
<p><a href="http://webdevstudios.com/support/forum/wp-announcements/" title="WordPress Plugins and Support Forum" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-Announcements Support Forum</a></p>


WP-Announcements

Display a post as a site wide announcement, notice, ad or emergency alert on your website via a marquee or popup window using ShadowBox-JS or ThickBox …

ZakWDesigns

<p>BriteNotices lets WordPress admins create and display modern site-wide notices across their website.</p>
<p>The plugin is designed for announcements, alerts, promotions, maintenance notices, discount banners, urgent updates, and marketing messages. Admins can customise the design, choose where notices appear, target specific users or pages, and schedule notices to appear automatically.</p>
<h4>Core Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display a modern notice across your website.</li>
<li>Choose from multiple positions: top header bar, footer bar, or bottom-corner slide-in.</li>
<li>Use the built-in rich text editor for links, bold text, emojis, and formatted notice content.</li>
<li>Add a dismiss button so visitors can close the notice.</li>
<li>Set cookie expiration so dismissed notices stay hidden for a chosen period.</li>
<li>Customise background, text, and button colours.</li>
<li>Use predefined colour templates including Error, Information, Success, and Warning.</li>
<li>Choose whether the notice is sticky/fixed on scroll or scrolls away with the page.</li>
<li>Select an icon to display alongside the notice.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Smart Targeting</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show notices site-wide.</li>
<li>Show notices on the homepage only.</li>
<li>Show or hide notices on specific pages or posts.</li>
<li>Target guests only.</li>
<li>Target logged-in users only.</li>
<li>Target specific WordPress roles, such as Customers, Subscribers, Editors, or Administrators.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Marketing Tools</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add countdown timers for sales, events, deadlines, and limited-time announcements.</li>
<li>Add a high-visibility call-to-action button.</li>
<li>Add click-to-copy coupon codes so visitors can copy discounts instantly.</li>
<li>Schedule notices with automated start and end dates/times.</li>
</ul>
<p>BriteNotices is built to be lightweight, easy to configure, and flexible enough for both simple announcements and marketing campaigns.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>BriteNotices is licensed under the GPLv2 or later.</p>
<p>This program 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 any later version.</p>


BriteNotices – Site-wide notices, promotions, marketing messages and more

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