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 …

Shafaat Javed

<p>Announcement’s Usage Guide</p>
<h3>How to add Announcements</h3>
<pre><code>        <p>Simply add announcements from the admin menu on left side named Announcements. Set the starting and ending date of the announcement and type the content of the Announcement in the editor and you are good to go. Now on the date that you set Announcement will appear right on the top of every page of your site. </p>
        <h3>How to change the style/color of the background of the announcement</h3>
        <p>Simply open the responsive-bit-announcements-manager plugin folder and then goto css folder and in there open the file named <strong>announcemnts.css</strong>, in this file you can change the css according to your own needs.  </p>
        <p>To change the background color of announcements simply change the background value under #announcements and for the hover effect of cross button navigate to #announcements .wrapper .close</p>
        <h3>Important things to consider</h3>
        <p>If you close the announcement by clicking on the cross button then plugin will save the cookie on the user browser for not to show announcements for next 2 days means the cookie will expire in next 2 days.</p>
        <h3>Custom Help</h3>
        <p>If you need custom help with respect to this plugin or any other wordpress related issue, feel free to contact us. Our email id is : <strong>support@responsivebit.com</strong><br />Kindly do provide your feedback for this plugin, it means alot. Enjoy this plugin.</p>
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<p>For Suggestions<br />
For any suggestion and bug, kindly feel free to email us at support@responsivebit.com . We will be glad to hear your feedback and any suggestions for improving this plugin.</p>


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