If you’ve been reading our blog for few times, you might notice that whenever we organize a giveaway, we’ll use a nice notification bar on our site. This is a great way to attract more readers to enter the giveaways.In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to add notification bar in WordPress site.
Here’s an example from our previous giveaway:
There are lots of plugins currently available to add this feature and in this tutorial, we’re going to use WordPress Notification Bar, a free WordPress plugin.
First of all, you need to install and activate the plugin as usual.
Next, go to the plugin settings page from Settings > Notification Bar.
To use it, make you sure enable it from the settings page. There are few other options can be configured such as text message, button label, button link, color of the bar bar and more.
Being a free plugin, this plugin has very limited features. However, I believe this plugin should be enough for most people. I hope this tutorial helped you to add the notification bar to your WordPress site.
I have used the notification bar from Hellobar.com.
The free version allows a few changes to colour scheme etc. and from memory it enables some stats.
A built-in plugin keeps the control within the site, however, which is good.
I’ve tried the free version, and it sucks. Besides limited settings option, the free version also only allows certain amount of clicks per month. Once you exceed the amount of click allowed for every month, the bar will be hidden from users.