Sitewide Notice WP Plugin

Simply add a small message bar to the bottom of each page of your website to display notice messages such as sales, notices and any text messages.

A lightweight plugin that simply adds a small notification bar that allows you to insert simple text at the bottom of every page of your website as a call-to-action.

Features

• Lightweight code that does not slow down your website.
• Choose color of font. (Includes transparency).
• Choose color of background for the bar. (Includes transparency).
• Add your own text to the message bar.
• Users are able to close the bar by clicking on the ‘x’.
• When a user closes the bar, automatically hide this notification bar for 24 hours.
• Show/hide notice bar with a checkbox.
• HTML code supported.
• Hide sitewide message on mobile devices.
• Hide sitewide message for logged in users.
• Integrates with Paid Memberships Pro – show notification banner only to members.
• Show notification bar either on top or on the bottom of the screen.

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/sitewide-notice-wp directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
3. Use the ‘Settings’ > ‘Sitewide Notice WP’ link on the dashboard screen to configure the plugin.
4. Toggle ‘Plugin Enable/Disable’ to display the notice bar.

1. 

   Sitewide Notice WP - front view of Sitewide Notice WP.

2. 

   Sitewide Notice WP - Sitewide Notice WP settings page.

2.4 – 2023-01-30

• SECURITY: Improved general sanitization and escaping of the plugin where possible.
• ENHANCEMENT: Moved the settings to “Settings” > “Sitewide Notice WP”.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Updated library used for WP Color Alpha to support WordPress 5.5+ – Fixes some deprecation warnings.
• BUG FIX/ENHANCEMENT: Improved logic for how the banner is shown when the user closed the notification.

2.3

• Security: Fixed a potential XSS issue. Added wp_kses to banner message options.
• Enhancement: Added in filter for frontend banner text swnza_banner_text.
• Enhancement: Added in filter for allowed HTML in the banner message options swnza_message_kses.

2.2

• Bug Fix: Support TwentyTwenty theme. Fixed an issue where loading the wp-alpha-color.js was causing issues.
• Enhancement: Added option to hide close button.
• Enhancement: Added filter swnza_show_banner as an override to show/hide the bar.
• Enhancement: General styling improvements to the bar to fit things better.

2.1

• Security: Added in nonces and escaped values when saving.
• Enhancement: Improved UI of text of banner on front-end.

2.0.4

• Enhancement: Changed close button icon. Uses SVG and supports retina-devices.
• Enhancement: Option to show the notification bar on top or on the bottom of your site.
• Bug Fix: Undefined index in some cases has now been fixed.

2.0.3.2

• Bug fix with the color picker library.

2.0.3.1

• Bug fix where WooCommerce checkout would hang.

2.0.3

• ENHANCEMENT: Integrate with Paid Memberships Pro.

2.0.2

• BUG FIX: text would appear before page load.
• ENHANCEMENT: hide site wide notice message from logged in users option.

2.0.1

• Fixed missing files bug.

2.0.0

• UI interface cleanup.
• ENHANCEMENT: Hide bar for 24 hours when user closes it.
• Speed and Security improvement.

1.0.5

• BUG FIX: Saved text message showing on wp-login fix.

1.0.4

• ENHANCEMENT: Hide on mobile.

1.0.3

• ENHANCEMENT: Custom CSS now supported.

1.0.2

• ENHANCEMENT: HTML code now supported in the message.

1.0.1

• ENHANCEMENT: All text is now translatable.

1.0

• Standard version released.