Simple Notices Pro is a WordPress plugin to display site-wide announcements on your website. These notices can be used to alert your users of membership specials, product discount codes, site maintenance or upgrades, or anything else. If you are looking for a simple, yet very effective way to make announcements to your users, this is it.
The notices come in 10 different beautiful colors, and include 24 optional icons that can be displayed next to the notices.
A close button is displayed in the top right of the notices, allowing your users to hide them at any time. If a user is logged in, closing the notice will permanently store the notice ID for the user, so that particular notice is never displayed to him or her again. If a user is not logged-in, the notice state will be stored in a cookie so that the user con continue to browse your site without seeing the notice again.
Features
- 10 Colors
- 24 icons
- Three close effects: fade, slide and none
- Ability to limit notices to logged-in users only
- Option to enable or disable a notice at any time
- Built with custom post types
- Fully localized and ready for translation
Credits: Designs by Jonathan Williamson
Support
Please post all support related questions in the dedicated support forum.
Changelog
v1.0.2
- Updated link colors to make them easier to read.
v1.0.1
- Added option to show notice only to logged-out users
- Added option to hide the close button
- Add a jQuery method to hide the notice after form submission (or other event)
To close the notice after a successful form submission, or other event, use this in your jQuery:
$('#notification-area').closeNotice('fade'); |
The “fade” can option substituted with either “slide” or “hide”.
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Very nice Pippin.
What lightbox did you use for the images in this article?
Thanks
It’s prettyPhoto.
Lovely, I found an immediate use for this, thanks Pippin.
Great!
Been experimenting quite a bit with this, lots of potential, particularly when you include stuff like Gravity Forms in a notice.
I’d like to suggest a few ideas to make this plugin even better:
1. Option to hide the Close button, so that notices can remain visible until the admin decides to remove them.
2. Option to only have the notice close when information has been successfully submitted via a form or to only have the Close button appear when the forms success submission message displays.
3. Display notice only to certain categories of user.
4. Display notice only to users who are NOT logged in.
5. Display notice only to users who have come from certain sites.
… of course, all that would probably mean that the plugin is no longer “simple”, but it would sure open up a lot of possibilities.
1. Great idea. On the todo list.
2. Cool idea, but probably not going to happen, at least not in a super simple to use method. With an option to disable the close button, it would be very easy to pass a custom jQuery function to your form submission. What about something like that? I could setup a JS function that takes care of hiding it, then all you would have to do is pass the function as a callback to your form submission.
3. By categories of users, do you mean user levels?
4. Good idea, on the list.
5. Cool idea, but probably won’t make it in.
Thanks for the great feedback!
2. Yeah, that sounds like a good solution – you could write a short tutorial, describing the exact steps, as a post on the Gravity Forms forum and that would attract a lot attention to your site. A significant subset of serious WordPress users use Gravity Forms and, I reckon, most would be open to the idea of subscribing here if it meant getting to add useful functionality to their existing Gravity Forms purchase.
3. Yeah, sorry, I did mean user levels – addressing users by group would be useful i.e. all authors, or all editors etc. You could also separate users according to other criteria – for instance, you could allow users of your Restrict Content Pro plugin to display notices to, say, Basic subscribers, prominently displaying an offer to upgrade to Advanced … for a Limited Time Only, of course
5. Displaying certain notices to visitors arriving from specific sites would be a good selling point for users whose primary focus is online marketing. Not a pressing need for me personally, just one of those handy-to-have-in-case-you-need-it features.
Thanks for your great work!
Thanks for the clarification. I’ll see what I can do about some of these while updating the plugin tomorrow
V1.0.1 is now available
1.0.1 works like a charm, this plugin is insanely useful!
The only feature I haven’t yet had a chance to test is “close on form submission”, I figure I should use Gravity Forms’ Gform post submission” action hook, would it be okay with you if I go ahead on post on their forum?
Great!
Actually, no, you won’t use that hook. The hook you linked to is for hooking into the form submission with PHP. You will need to hook into it with jQuery. You could ask the GF support folks if there is an easy way to pass a JS callback function to an ajax enabled form.
Hi!
Nice pluggin
Any chance to get an option to display different notices in different categories ?
And an option to set a start date/time and end date/time every notice is shown?
Last wish would be an additional look – like a browser information bar.
Maybe you’ll find some inspiration here http://awe.sm/5j6zU (WSO)
Regards, Foxx
Hi again!
Did you get my comment?
I mean the wishlist for some optional great features?
Hi
I think my first comment got lost. So again a short wishlist
- option to display a notice only in selected categories
- option to set a schedule – from date/time to date/time
- additional look – like a browser action bar
- option how often the notice is shown to a user
May be you can find some more inspiration at the warrior forum.
http://awe.sm/5j6zU
Sorry, your comments got marked as spam, probably because of your email address.
For selected categories only, do you mean display the notice only while viewing the archive for that category?
How often the notice is shown to the user, do you mean additional intervals where the user would see the notice, even if they had closed it?
Hi again …
You may find more inspiration for new options/features here awe.sm/5jEmn (attentionGrabber: WordPress Notification Bar @CodeCanyon)
I will consider some of the upgrades. At the moment all of my time is taken up working on Easy Digital Downloads though.
Hi!
I tried to get on your email notification list for “easy digital downloads”, but my email-address was rejected ;-(
Looking forward to some update on simple notices pro.
What email address did you try? I can add you manually.
Same as used for this comment. Please add it to your list. Thanx.
Hi!
1.) Yes
2.) Yes
Another option would be to show the notice only if a special post is viewed (single).
Is it possible to display this notices at a specified location OR push the top content slightly below when displaying the notices? This plugin is hiding the menus at the top.
Managed to get it working via CSS. Please ignore this request.
Great! I’m glad you were able to figure it out
Hi Siva, can you tell me how?
I think this is a great plugin, and thx for fixing the theme bug! Only thing I’ve noticed so far is that there are no overall settings (just per notice). Out of the box, the options are simple (which are great), but all users see each notice only once, and that’s it. What if you want them to see it once a month, every time, or some kind of interval? Would you entertain the notion of that kind of setting globally or at the notice level?
It’s called “Simple” for a reason
@pippin ,
This is not related to the plugin-simple-notices-pro-plugin. But would like to know about the feature you used for enabling us to pay and download the plugin
The ” Purchase Option ” and ” payment form here ” are the part of restrict content plugin or digitaldownloads plugin ?
@SJ, sorry for the slow reply. Your comment got mistakenly flagged as spam.
The purchase form / system is powered by my Stripe Digital Download plugin (never formally released). The complete plugin is available on Github.
The Stripe Digital Download plugin was the predecessor to Easy Digital Downloads.
@pippin
I just purchased this great plugin and was hoping that it would display a “site wide” notice across a wordpress multisite. Seems to only be on a per-blog basis not “site wide” like the description says. Any sweet tricks you may know of that I could get this working in a multisite setup to display across all sites?
Thanks for your purchase!
What’s your comfort level with PHP?
It’s pretty good. If you can tell me what files and php lines to change, I’d be good.
Have you ever used the switch_to_blog() function?
Basically what you will need to do is:
1. Network activate the plugin
2. Modify the function that displays the notice and have it use switch_to_blog() to “switch” to the main blog and pull the notice from their
3. Publish your notices from the main blog
Does that make sense?
I haven’t used that function before. I’m pretty familiar with WordPress, however I’m relatively new to the multisite world of WordPress. Can you walk me through it a bit?
It would be coming from blog (1):
1) I’ve got the plugin network activated
2) Which file is the one that displays the notice? includes/display-functions.php?
3) Then which lines would I need to change to what to use the switch_to_blog function?
Sorry, I guess I need a little bit more hand holding.
2. Yes, display-functions.php
3. Put it just after line 6, and place restore_current_blog() just after line 42.
This Pplugin is great! I have 2 feature requests for a possible update:
1) After a user clicks the close button, have a sticky tab to bring it back up. Similar to the Hello Bar (http://www.hellobar.com).
2) Have the content pushed below the notice, rather than over the top. This feature would especially be important if you check on to “Hide the Close Button”. Cause if you have a long notice, the site becomes unviewable/unseeable and you can’t get rid of it. Eek.
Thanks Pippin!
Perfect! Works great! Thank you!!!
Sorry but neither of those two items is going to happen.
Ha ha, no worries. Thanks for a straight up honesty. I now know what not to expect
It’s a great plugin and I appreciate your help with the multisite thing. Thanks!
Pippin, I’m thinking of investing in the plugin to replace one we’re using that is messing with the RSS feed on a client’s site. Does the content of your notices appear in the feed? and if so is the output valid?
They will not appear by default, but could be easily added. If they were added, yes, the output would be valid.
Thanks Pippin, I’ll run it past the client.
Everybody seems to enjoy this plugin but it doesn’t show on my site who ever i pick to show to.
It showed once to me, i closed it and it never came back, clean cache, activate, deactivate, new one nothing, and nothing to logout.
Did i missed something, you can check on http://www.fxbenard.com
Thanks
It’s not showing because of a jQuery error: http://screencloud.net/v/taxG
Do you have another WP plugin that uses the jQuery Cookie plugin?
Hi Pippin,
Can SNP be configured either in the settings, or in a functions.php file, to only show on weekends? Thanks in advance!
Yes, certainly. The easiest way would be to directly modify the plugin code. Do you know the PHP necessary to only show the notices on weekends?
I do not – if you can share it I’d appreciate it very much.
Just curious why when i use tags the text goes to red in color…. I love just can’t figure our how i did it. Also do span tags for color and font work in title and or post text?
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center and strong tag
Add this to your CSS:
#notice-content { color: #fff; }