Definitive Announcement Bar – Simple, Lightweight Top Bar for Bricks and Online Stores

Description

Definitive Announcement Bar adds a clean bar to the top of your site for shipping notices, sales, opening hours or any other short message. Add several messages and they cross-fade automatically.

It is built to stay out of your way: one small stylesheet, one small script without jQuery, and nothing is loaded on pages where the bar is hidden.

Works with your setup

• Bricks Builder – the bar is placed right before your Bricks header. It is never shown inside the builder. Colors, font size and padding accept Bricks CSS variables such as var(--primary).
• Any other theme – block themes and classic themes use the standard wp_body_open hook. For older themes without that hook, the bar is moved to the top of the page automatically.
• WooCommerce – show or hide the bar on the shop, product categories, single products, cart, checkout and My Account. Shortcodes inside messages work, too. Compatible with High-Performance Order Storage and the block-based cart and checkout.
• Page builders and custom headers – switch to manual placement and use the [definitive_announcement_bar] shortcode wherever you want the bar.

Features

• Multiple rotating messages, edited in a compact visual editor with bold, italic and links
• Live preview on the settings page that updates while you edit
• Optional call-to-action button with its own colors
• Background, text, link and close button colors, font family, font size, height, padding, alignment and uppercase style
• Pick a font installed on your site (theme, Font Library or Bricks custom fonts) or type any CSS font-family
• Top of the page, optionally sticky while scrolling, or fixed to the bottom of the screen
• Optional close button (×): a closed bar stays hidden for the session or a number of days, and reappears automatically when you change the messages
• Show the bar everywhere except selected pages, or only on selected pages: front page, blog, posts, pages, search, 404 or WooCommerce pages
• Always show or never show the bar on any single post, page or product from its edit screen
• Show the bar on desktop and mobile, desktop only or mobile only
• Show the bar to everyone, only logged-in users or only logged-out visitors
• Schedule a start and end date, for example for a weekend sale
• Works with page caching: dismissal and scheduling are also checked in the browser
• Accessible: keyboard-friendly close button, rotation pauses on hover and focus, and animations are turned off for visitors who prefer reduced motion
• Translation ready and RTL friendly. Messages and the button can be translated with WPML or Polylang

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