Announcer Pro extends the Announcer notification bar plugin with controls for audience, placement, timing, and message format. Use a sticky or fixed bar for site-wide information, or insert an announcement into selected content. Bars can sit at the top or bottom of a site, and multiple active bars stack automatically.

Build the announcement

Add text, pictures, HTML, or shortcodes from other plugins, including form shortcodes. Set the layout, colors, display timing, and user behavior. A bar can show one message or rotate several in a slider or auto-playing ticker, with next and previous navigation. Add a customizable countdown timer to a promotional bar for a limited-time offer. Entrance animations apply to banners, and call-to-action buttons can have effects. One-click duplication copies an existing announcement setup for a related message.

Choose the audience, placement, and timing

Smart Visitor Targeting can conditionally display announcements based on traffic source, device type, operating system, browser, login status, visitor role, or visit count. Other display rules can target particular pages, posts, or categories. Shortcode Placement inserts announcements into selected posts, pages, or theme templates. Set a start and end time for each announcement.

Set the visitor experience

Configure an announcement to appear after a time delay or after a visitor scrolls. Visitors can close a notice permanently, or cookie controls can make it reappear after a specified time. The extension works with mobile-responsive layouts, multiple layout options, color customization, smooth open and close transitions, and WPML translated post language targeting.

Common uses

• Promote sales, coupons, and seasonal offers with a countdown.
• Display cookie notices, privacy updates, or other compliance messages.
• Place newsletter or form content in a banner using shortcodes.
• Share business hours, site updates, new posts, launches, or events.
• Welcome new users or show different messages based on visitor conditions.

Installation

1. Install and activate Announcer Pro on the WordPress site.
2. Create an announcement and define its content, position, display rules, and schedule.
3. Add a call-to-action, shortcode, slider, ticker, timer, or targeting condition as needed.
4. Review the result on the relevant pages and adjust the announcement options before publishing.