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NewCreate announcement bars, popups and slide-ins with countdowns, scheduling, targeting, frequency control and private local stats. No jQuery.
Pennon - Announcement Bar & Popup Campaigns — Announcement bars, popups and slide-ins with countdowns, scheduling, targeting and private stats.
Pennon lets you publish campaigns on your site: a slim announcement bar at the top or bottom, a centered popup, or a corner slide-in. Write the message, pick colours with one click, choose when and where it appears and press Publish. A live preview in the editor shows exactly what visitors will see.
Campaigns can run on a schedule, count down to the end of an offer, target page types, logged-in state and devices, and remember a dismissal in the visitor's browser. Views, clicks and closes are counted locally as plain numbers, with no cookies and no external services.
Bars. Choose "Announcement bar", write a message and optionally a button. Type {countdown} in the message and set an End date to show a live timer. A top bar that is sticky stays visible while scrolling, a bottom bar is pinned to the screen edge.
Popups and slide-ins. Choose "Popup / slide-in" and pick a layout. Triggers: after a delay, after scrolling, exit intent (desktop only) or only when clicked. Visitors close a popup with the close button, the Escape key or, if enabled, a click on the overlay.
Open a popup from a button or link. [pennon_open id="12"]Subscribe[/pennon_open] prints a button. A link to #pennon-open-12 works from menus and text, and Pennon.open( 12 ) / Pennon.close( 12 ) work from your own JavaScript. The popup is printed on that page even if its targeting would normally exclude it.
Scheduling and frequency. Start and End use your site time zone. A dismissed or shown campaign is remembered in the visitor's browser (one small flag in localStorage, or sessionStorage for "once per session"). Saving a campaign again resets that memory for everyone.
Targeting. Pick the page types, add post or page IDs to exclude, and choose everyone, logged-out visitors or logged-in users and all, desktop or mobile devices. If several campaigns apply, one popup and one bar per position are shown and the lowest priority number wins.
Statistics. Views, clicks and closes are stored as numbers on each campaign. A visitor is counted at most once per 30 minutes for views and five times per minute for clicks and closes. Administrator previews are never counted. Switch statistics off in Pennon > Settings & help.
Caching. Page rules and schedules are evaluated on the server and again in the browser, so cached pages still stop showing an expired campaign. Audience rules (logged-in or logged-out) need a cache that varies by login state.
pennon-announcement-bar), organised in namespaced PHP classesreadme.txt in WordPress.org format, a full HTML documentation page in docs/ and a CHANGELOG.mdlicense.txt (GNU GPL v2) and a translation template in languages/The gallery shows the plugin running on a private test site ("Fieldnotes") with sample posts and sample statistics, not a public demo. There is no hosted live demo for this plugin.
Third-party product and network names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners. This plugin is an independent product and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Additional package and setup details from the author. The purchase options and marketplace license terms govern your order.
The plugin source is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later (see license.txt), as for every WordPress plugin. What you buy here is the packaged, supported release: the download, updates published on this listing and author support through the marketplace.
These marketplace licence terms describe who the support and update entitlement covers. They do not take away the rights the GPL grants you.
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Common questions about this listing.
No. Everything runs on your own site. Statistics are plain numbers in the database and nothing is loaded from other servers.
Pennon does not store subscribers. You can paste the form shortcode of your newsletter plugin into the popup text and Pennon will display it.
No. The front-end script is small vanilla JavaScript and only loads when a campaign is shown on the page.
Put {countdown} in the message and set an End date on the Behaviour tab. The timer updates every second and the campaign hides itself at zero.
Yes. Set Start and End. Campaigns outside the window are not printed and are re-checked in the visitor's browser, so cached pages stay correct.
Use "Show again" to show it once per session or once every number of days. When a visitor closes a popup, or sees it, the choice is remembered in their browser. Exit intent and "only when clicked" triggers give more control.
No. Exit intent relies on the cursor leaving the window, so it never fires on touch screens. Use a delay or scroll trigger for mobile audiences.
Only one popup and one bar per position (top and bottom) are shown. The campaign with the lowest priority number wins.
Bars are labelled regions. Popups use dialog semantics, trap keyboard focus while open, close with Escape, return focus to the trigger and honour the reduced-motion setting.
Yes. Targeting by page type and schedules work with page caches. Audience rules (logged-in or not) require a cache that varies by login state.
Yes. All text is translatable and a .pot file is included.
By default campaigns, settings, statistics and temporary data are deleted. You can keep them by switching off "Delete all campaigns and settings when the plugin is deleted". Deactivating never deletes anything.
Release notes for this item, newest first.
Current v1.0.0
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Aisha Rahman Reviewed v1.0.0
Used the announcement bar for a weekend shipping offer and the exit-intent popup for a newsletter. {countdown} in the message and the end date that retires the campaign on its own were the parts I did not want to rebuild. Targeting let me keep the bar off the blog and on the shop pages, and the view/click numbers stay on the site. No jQuery, and the assets only load where a campaign is actually shown.
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