Easy Heads Up Bar

Description

This plugin adds an easy to use notification bar to the top of your WordPress website

Key Features

• Customizable color schemes
• Create multiple bars, as many as you want.
• If there is more than one bar then the bars will display randomly
• Schedule when your bars show up by setting an start and end date.
• Choose where to display bars, eg:
  • All pages
  • Only the interior pages
  • Just the home page

Display Date Options

• The Bar can be set to expire on a specified date
• The Bar can be set to start on a specified date
• The Bar can be set to run between on a specified dates

New Features

• New bar management screen
• New bar editor
• No limit on bar height, it will just fit your content
• No limit to the amount of text or links in a bar
• Add images to bar
• Use another plugin’s shortcodes in bar
• Choose between the top or the bottom of a page to display your bar
• Allow your users to hide or show the Heads Up Bar

Screenshots

Installation

Install the plugin via WordPress’s installation system then activate it.

=OR=

1. Upload the easy-heads-up-bar directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

FAQ

• Q: Is the Bar Responsive?

  • A: Yes.

• Q: Can the bar be closed?

  • A: Yes.

• Q: Is it Possible to remove the line under bar?

  • A: Yes, in the bar’s edit screen set the color option of the line to the same color as the bar’s background.

• Q: Can the bar remain at the top of the screen when I scroll?

  • A: Not right now, this may be added later. But there is nothing stopping you from archiving this effect by adding a bit of CSS to your theme. You can target the bar using it’s ID #ehu-bar

• Feel free to ask any questions you may have at the Support Forum

Reviews

EXCELLENT BUT…

Kenelli September 22, 2016 1 reply

Excellent plugin ! I was waiting for something like that for a while. The only little bad thing, it’s that you are forced to select a border color that does the bar look bigger. I Wanted to removed it, with no success… Keep going !

First impression and suggestions

vipteam February 7, 2017

First impression: really works for what is intended. And it works well. Suggestion: Allow visitors to hide or close the bar. Auto hide after X seconds. Position: header/footer. And all that admin can select from Yes/No. Advantage: Plugin is simple. Responsive. Displaying on the homepage, on single page, all pages. Showing: certain days or permanently. Disadvantage: the button “save” are seen only half. As it was cut horizontally. Maybe you’ve played too much when you’re doing the design, but that’s just my subjective impression. Desired is a simple design. Go ahead, this is great!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

2.1.7

Modified capability_type to include users who can edit posts

2.1.6

N/A

2.1.5

Addressing a minor display bug introduced in v 2.1.4

2.1.4

Wrote a function to stop the shareaholic plugin from pushing the social links onto the plugin bar

2.1.3

Minor change to work around the shareaholic plugin

• Removed apply_filters(‘the_content’, $bar_content);
• Added do_shortcode( $bar_content );

2.1.2

• New Bar Display option that floats the bar over the content and fixes it while scrolling.
• Added jQuery to ensure that the bar display well if there is the WordPress Admin Bar above it.

2.1.1

Minor Changes

• New CSS to override Theme’s CSS with relation to padding on HTML elements like p tags
• New bar open and close icons

2.1

• Changed out a br tag for a span tag to address a spacing issue in IE9

2.0

New features:

• Bars are now a custom post type
• New Icon
• New bar management screen
• New bar editor
• No limit to the amount of text or links in a bar
• No limit on bar height, it will just fit your content
• Add images to bars
• Use another plugin’s shortcodes
• Choose between the top or the bottom of a page to display your bar
• Allow your users to hide and show the Heads Up Bar