Announcer – Sticky Message Banner, Notification Bar – Add to Top, Bottom of your Website

6.1

• New: Slide down effect on the page when announcement is shown.
• Fix: Close button is repositioned to not overlap content.
• Fix: Border radius is incorrectly set on the announcement bar.
• Fix: Adjust button margin on smaller screens.
• Fix: Ticker scroll overflows sometimes.

6.0.1

• Fix: Added permission/role check for ajax operations.

6.0

• New: Location rule to target by WPML language.
• New: Location rule to target search page.
• New: Location rule to select all post statuses.
• Fix: Ticker scroll was abrupt when using images.
• Fix: Background image URL not set correctly.
• Fix: Added nonce to admin ajax call.

5.9

• Fix: Call to Action button supports relative URLs.
• Fix: Misc CSS enhancements to CTA button and message style precedence.
• Fix: Misc admin UI enhancements.
• Fix: New close icon.
• Fix: PHP warnings at some places.

5.8

• New: Horizontal ticker feature.
• Fix: Font size and color of the bar is now strictly applied.
• Fix: Bar padding is adjusted when close button is enabled.
• Fix: padding key not found warning message.

5.7

• New: Visual editor enabled for the announcement message.
• Fix: Padding value not honored.

5.6

• New: nofollow attribute can be added to buttons.

5.5

• Fix: Enhancements to input and output data sanitization.

5.4

• New: Option to close announcement when a link inside message is clicked.
• Fix: Minor admin UI enhancements.

5.3

• New: Option to set background image for the bar
• Fix: Moved “layout” options to a separate tab in the admin settings.
• Fix: Minor admin UI color enhancements.

5.2

• New: “Custom” display option to open the announcement as needed using JS API.
• New: New option to add extra padding to the announcement bar.
• Fix: Apostrophe not saved when button text is CTA.
• Fix: jQuery exception when trying to add padding when admin bar is shown.
• Fix: Disable autocomplete for the schedule date picker.
• Fix: “Terms of post” criteria was not checking the post type.
• Fix: Minor enhancements to admin settings field.

5.1

• New: Announcement can be scheduled with time.
• New: Timezone can be selected for scheduling the announcement.
• New: A mini editor is included to add HTML to announcement message.
• New: Option to order announcement when they are stacked.
• Fix: Preview not working.
• Fix: Announcement message with slashes was not working in preview.
• Fix: Close icon now has a text on hover.
• Fix: Announcement reopens when display on page scroll is selected.

5.0

• New: Announcement message is switched to a plain text box rather than rich editor to avoid unwanted formatting.
• New: Preview announcements before publishing.
• New: Can enter title/hover text for CTA buttons.
• New: Quick toggle switch to activate/deactivate the announcements.
• New: Custom taxonomies and terms can now be selected in location rules.
• New: Close announcement option upon clicking CTA button.
• Fix: Undefined index cta_buttons upon saving the announcement with no buttons.
• Fix: Replace PHP constant __class__ to __CLASS__.
• Fix: Issue with display on page scroll.
• Fix: Optimized responsiveness for smaller screens.

4.1

• New: Added support to set gradients as background color.

4.0

• New: Plugin is rewritten from scratch with modern design, new interface and features.
• Note: Announcements from v3 will not be automatically migrated. Announcement positions like above loop is not available in this version. Please make a note of the announcements when in v3 and create them in v4.