Announcements are a means of advertisement. It is a medium the owner of a site uses to notify visitors of the site of what the site is all about.
It also helps to bring to the visitors’ notice a very important message in the owner may want to disperse.
You can also use announcement banners to display your affiliate links infront of your site’s visitors, also for display ads, ads that remain on the screen why visitors scroll through often get higher ePMVs on Ezoic (more money).
2 Ways to Display Announcements on your WP Site.
In this article, I will highlight two best methods a user can use to display announcements on your WordPress Website. They include.
Using a pop-up plugin to Display Announcements
To do this simply head over to plugins and click on” Add new”. The most notable plugin to make use of is the “Optinmonster” pop-up plugin. Once you are done installing it then click on the “activate” button to set the plugin up and running.
Once you are done and the plugin has been successfully installed the next step to do is to click on the “create new campaign”. This will automatically redirect you to a page asking you about the particular type you want and the campaign template required.
You can choose from a variety of campaign types made available. This could be a pop-up, floating bar, full-screen mode, and many more.
After taking a decision on which templates you want you can now proceed to select the site you want to use it on. The Optin monster plugin provides users with various options on how to modify its notification bar.
Its design tab provides the users with options for changing the style and color of fonts or texts and also allows him or them to decide where he or she wants the notification bar to be placed on the page.
Under the” display rules” tab, it allows the user to select the specific pages on which the notification bar should appear. On the “integrations” menu it allows you to input certain stuff like an Email address.
The Google Analytics menu helps to dictate how the plugin works on your site. Once you are done with your configurations, click on the publish button and then select the live status. Save your changes when you are done.
Head straight to your WordPress dashboard and click on refresh campaign
By default, you will see your announcement there already on the dashboard.
Using the Orbisius plugin
You have to install and activate this plugin from the plugin menu on the WordPress dashboard. After you are done with this the next step is to click on “add new” from the “simple notice ” menu.
After you then type in and edit according to your taste the special announcement you want all visitors to see. The plugin also allows you to insert links wherever possible. Once you are done click on the “publish” button to save your changes.
Once you are done with the texts simply go to your WordPress site and you will see the special announcement on the top of the page by default.
However if in this you want to add more designs to it you may be forced to use custom CSS while doing so.
In Conclusion
I hope that after reading this article, you are able to display announcements on your WordPress Website Easily.
Do note that the 2 methods I listed in this article are the only 2 methods that don’t impact your page loading speed that much, if you use other plugins like announcement bar, scrolling banner, announcement banner, alert notice boxes etc, you page loading speed will be affected.
That being said, if you have any questions on displaying announcements on your WordPress Website, feel free to ask me in the comments…
