Title: WP Alert Bar
Author: Ryan Bracey
Published: <strong>June 4, 2020</strong>
Last modified: January 14, 2025

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# WP Alert Bar

 By [Ryan Bracey](https://profiles.wordpress.org/braceomatic88/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-alert-bar.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-alert-bar/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-alert-bar/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-alert-bar/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-alert-bar/)

## Description

WP Alert Bar allows you to quickly and easily add an alert bar to your WordPress
website.

All content and styles are fully customizable through the WordPress Customizer, 
allowing you to easily match the alert bar to your sites branding with no coding
necessary, and with real time preview you can see what you’re doing before publishing.
WP Alert Bar also gives you the ability modify the way the alert bar displays with
options to have the alert bar appear across your entire site or just the homepage,
or include a close button. This gives you the power to use WP Alert Bar in a way
that best fits your message.

WP Alert Bar also applies unique classes to the body tag and all elements of the
alert bar making it easy for developers to further modify the styles to fit the 
needs of your WordPress website.

### Features

 * Custom Colors to match your site branding
 * Custom title, message and call to action ( all items are optional and fully conditional)
 * Ability to display banner across your entire site or just the homepage
 * Body class added to pages where WP Alert Bar is visible

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * WP Alert Bar section in customizer
 * [[
 * Sub sections in customizer for Styles, Content, and Display
 * [[
 * Styles section to customize colors and font size. Options are editable from the
   customizer with real time preview
 * [[
 * Content section to add custom messaging and call to action. Options are editable
   from the customizer with real time preview
 * [[
 * Display section to customize where the alert displays on your site. Options are
   editable from the customizer with real time preview

## FAQ

### My WordPress site has a sticky header that uses position fixed causing it to cover the WP Alert Bar, how can I fix this?

**WP Alert Bar** comes with a filter that allows you to define your sites fixed 
header so that it can account for the alert bar. Simply navigate to the functions.
php file in your child theme and paste in the following code snippet, making sure
to replace .site-header with the class or ID of your sites fixed position header.

    ```
    // Define fixed header for WP Alert Bar
    add_filter( 'mbwpab_fixed_header_selector', 'mbwpab_define_fixed_header' );
    function mbwpab_define_fixed_header( $header ) {
        $header     =   '.site-header';
        return $header;
    }
    ```

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“WP Alert Bar” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Ryan Bracey ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/braceomatic88/)

“WP Alert Bar” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-alert-bar/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “WP Alert Bar” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-alert-bar)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-alert-bar/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-alert-bar/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-alert-bar/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-alert-bar/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.4

_Release Date – Jan 13 2025_

 * Fix – Tested plugin against the most recent version of WordPress.

#### 1.0.3

_Release Date – April 4 2023_

 * Fix – Tested plugin against the most recent version of WordPress.

#### 1.0.2

_Release Date – May 10 2021_

 * Fix – Adjusted hook priority for WordPress Alert Bar to prevent conflict with
   favicons set through the WordPress Customizer.

#### 1.0.1

_Release Date – Jun 12 2020_

 * New – Added class to WordPress Alert Bar when close button is active.
 * Fix – Gave unique class selector to WordPress Alert Bar call to action.
 * Fix – Removed extra right padding on mobile when close button is not active.
 * Fix – Cleaned up erroneous styles from style.css.
 * Fix – Enqued WordPress Alert Bar style.css eairler to allow plugin stlyes to 
   be overridden using theme stylesheet, without the need for important tags.

#### 1.0.0

_Release Date – May 31 2020_

 * New – Added WordPress Alert Bar to repository.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.4**
 *  Last updated **1 year ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.7.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.7.5**
 *  PHP version ** 5.4 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-alert-bar/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-alert-bar/),
   and [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-alert-bar/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-alert-bar)
 * Tags
 * [alert](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/alert/)[alert bar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/alert-bar/)
   [notice](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/notice/)[notification](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/notification/)
   [notification bar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/notification-bar/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-alert-bar/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Ryan Bracey ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/braceomatic88/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-alert-bar/)

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