Announcer – Sticky Message Banner & Notification Bar vs Show Support Ribbon

Announcer is the ultimate WordPress notification bar plugin designed to help you display important messages, promotions, cookie notices, and alerts anywhere on your site. Whether you want to welcome new visitors, drive traffic to a seasonal sale, or ensure GDPR compliance with a cookie banner, Announcer makes it incredibly easy. Built to be lightweight and user-friendly, you can create eye-catching sticky bars that capture attention without slowing down your site. Add powerful Call-To-Action (CTA) buttons, set up customized display rules, and start boosting your user engagement and conversion rates in minutes. See it in action: View the Live demo of the plugin! ⭐ Why Choose Announcer? (Core Features) Announcer is packed with market-leading features to give you complete control over your website banners: Unlimited Announcements: Create and manage multiple notification bars at the same time. Flexible Positioning: Display messages at the top or bottom of your site. Smart Stacking: Neatly stack multiple banners if more than one announcement is active on a single page. Sticky & Fixed Layouts: Keep your message in view as users scroll, or fix it to the top of the page. Advanced Scheduling: Automate your promo bars by scheduling a start and end date/time. Call-To-Action (CTA) Buttons: Drive clicks with customizable buttons that can open links or dismiss the banner. Horizontal Ticker: Display longer text beautifully with a smooth scrolling news-ticker effect. Smart Cookie Control: Allow users to permanently close notices, or set them to re-display after a specific time. Rich Content Support: Insert any content into your banner, including images, HTML, or shortcodes from other plugins (like forms). Conditional Display Rules: Target specific audiences by showing banners only on certain pages, posts, or categories. 100% Mobile Responsive: Designed mobile-first to ensure your announcements look perfect on any screen size. Customization Made Easy: Choose from multiple layout options and unlimited color palettes to match your brand. Trigger Options: Automatically display banners based on a time delay or user page scroll. Smooth Animations: Engage users with sleek open and close transition effects. Multilingual Ready: Target announcements based on your WPML translated post language. Lightweight & Secure: Clean code that won’t bloat your site, fully GDPR compliant. 🚛 Popular Use Cases & Ideas You can use the Announcer plugin to create a wide variety of sticky messages, including: Promo Bars: Highlight sales, discount coupons, and seasonal offers. Compliance: Display a GDPR-friendly cookie consent banner or privacy policy updates. Lead Generation: Embed newsletter sign-ups (Mailchimp, WPForms) directly into the banner via shortcodes. Alerts & Updates: Share important site-wide notices, business hours. Content Promotion: Drive traffic to new blog posts, product launches, or special events. Welcome Messages: Greet new visitors with custom introductory notes. Social Proof & Feedback: Share quick links, social icons, or ask for customer feedback. 💎 PRO version Ready to take your announcements to the next level? The PRO version offers advanced marketing tools designed to maximize your conversions and give you pinpoint targeting capabilities: Multiple Messages (Ticker/Slider) – Maximize your screen real estate. Add a slider or auto-playing ticker to display multiple messages within a single announcement bar, complete with next/prev navigation. Urgency Countdown Timers – Skyrocket your sales! Embed fully customizable countdown timers right into your promo bars to create FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) for limited-time offers. Advanced Animations – Grab instant attention with eye-catching entrance animations for your banners and funky effects for your CTA buttons. Smart Visitor Targeting – Show the right message to the right user. Conditionally display banners based on traffic source (referrer), device type, OS, browser, user login status, user role, or even visit count! Shortcode Placement – Need a banner inside a specific post? Use shortcodes to place your announcements exactly where you want them, inside pages, posts, or theme templates. One-Click Duplicate – Save time by instantly cloning your favorite announcement setups. Check out the PRO version | View PRO Demo 👋 Feedback & Support We love hearing from our users! If you run into any issues, have questions, or want to share a feature request, please reach out to us in the Official Support Forum.

Show support for your favorite cause, event, charity, political event, or anything else that’s awesome. Show Support Ribbon includes four built-in ribbon styles and makes it easy to customize with your own CSS. Features Plug-n-play functionality No configuration required Regularly updated and “future proof” Shortcode and template tag to display the ribbon anywhere Limit display of the ribbon to any URL(s) Choose one of four built-in ribbon styles Customize the ribbon with your own CSS Control the link text, link URL, and title text Includes copy/paste CSS recipes to customize the ribbon Includes option to restore default settings Super-slick toggling settings page Works with or without Gutenberg Block Editor Ribbon Styles Choose one of the following ways to display your ribbon: Badge Banner Ribbon Link Custom (any text/HTML/CSS) Much more is possible via the Custom option, which enables you to add your own CSS for custom styling. Privacy This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way. Show Support Ribbon is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author. Support development I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books: The Tao of WordPress Digging into WordPress .htaccess made easy WordPress Themes In Depth Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins: BBQ Pro – Blazing fast WordPress firewall Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress REST Pro Tools – Awesome tools for managing the WP REST API Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂