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Wordpress Announcement - Plugin

Wordpress Announcement Plugin

Do you wanna inform any important news or message to your readers ? Here is a simple plugin, Wordpress Announcement Plugin.

Download the plugin from : http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/announcement.zip

Go to Admin > Plugin > and activate announcement plugin. After that, go to options and select Announcement. By default the plugin will be inactive. You have to set your announcement and activate the announcement by checking ‘Active’ checkbox.

Never Forgot to Run the Announcement. By Default the Announcement will be inactive

Enough !!! You visitors can now see your announcement. It will be displayed only one time for a particular user .

(If you want to see the announcement again, for testing purpose, Clear browser cookies, or atleast cookies from your blog. Otherwise you have to wait another 24 hours to play the announcement again)

The plugin is created with cute design and animation. It will never interrupt your blog reader.

Regards

Sajith

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44 Responses to “Wordpress Announcement - Plugin”

Piggy and Tazzy Says:
June 26th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Hmm.

Didn’t work for us.

Nothing is displayed at all. Using WP2.5.1

Does it require the Lightbox plugin, or anything similar?
Sajith M.R Says:
June 26th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
No need for lightbox plugin. It is also included. It works for me. Do one thing, clear cookies from your browser and try again . Otherwise You can see only one time the announcement (within 24 hours)
Sajith M.R Says:
June 26th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Hello Piggy, You need to Run the plugin (Check the checkbox in plugin option window) after adding a proper announcement or news . The path is

Log in as admin & Option >> Announcement
Domiziano Galia Says:
June 26th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Nothing working here: http://www.veronablog.com/
Sajith M.R Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 12:10 am
You installation is ok. http://www.veronablog.com/wp-content/plugins/announcement/content.php

I think you did not start the announcement .
Roberto Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Great plug-in!

Thank you very much for bring it to the scene.
baron Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 4:33 am
hi. Thanks for plugin

perfect.

Regards
Ahmed Bilal Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Sajith,

Just came across this: http://www.sajithmr.com/wordpress-announcement-plugin/ and thank you very much for developing it.

I wonder if you can add support for a couple of things:

1) The ability to track ‘views’ - how many people see the message? The counter could be reset each time the message was changed.

2) Automatically picking up things like font style and color scheme from the theme stylesheet. I know there’s a CSS file that can be messed with, but for novice users this would help integrate the plugin into their sites more effectively.

Anyway, top plugin mate.

cheers,
Ahmed
Sajith M.R Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Hi Ahmed,

Thank you for your suggestions . Yep, i will add the options for views, and font selection soon. Will let you know when it finishes. Thanks and Regards
Sajith M.R
dade Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 10:47 am
doesn’t work for me either in 2.5 or 2.6b1
Sajith M.R Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Hey Dade, what is your website url. Make sure your checked the active checkbox in option area.
Dade Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 11:10 am
yes its checked i also made sure i had the wordpress wp_footer call in my template as well the content.php file displays the announcement i had set
jake Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
It would be nice if this works for EVERY visitor to the site, not just new visitors.

In other words, if the announcement is changed, the cookie will be refreshed, and even previous visitors will see the NEW announcement. Maybe it already works this way, but seem so from the description on the website.

Better yet, provide 2 checkboxes:

1. “Never Display Announcements”

2. “Dont Show This Announcement Again”

Should provide a link to show them how to reset the options.

That would be super cool.
Sajith M.R Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Hello Jake,

Every visitor can see the announcement , not only the new visitors. But once it played, it will set a cookie which expires in 24 hours. So the same person can see the announcement next day also. It would be very disturbance if it plays always when one visit your each page. That why i put this limitation. Anyway , i will add the option for setting expiry with in a day and will let you know.

Thanks and Regards
Sajith.M.R
hyperlook Says:
June 27th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I can see nothing but script errors when i visit ur website.

That’s really what i saw in my blog after i use the annoucement.

Why?
Sajith M.R Says:
June 28th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Hi Hyperlook,

Here it is working well. And please do provide your website also, let me see what it shows here.
Epat Says:
June 28th, 2008 at 8:10 am
working well in my blog, but i’m agree with #jake
FruityOaty Says:
June 29th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Testing on YOUR site on 2 different computers (both Windows XP).

Upon visiting your site for 1st time using IE 7, script errors occur in IE 7):
Line: 914
Char: 124
Error: Expected identifier, string or number

However, it’s totally fine in Firefox 2 as well as new version 3.
Mict3613 Says:
June 29th, 2008 at 3:12 am
Does this plugin workd with WP 2.5.1? I did the installation & announcement page setup, save the page, cleared all cookies and cashe - Still Nothing Here.
I went one step further and de-activated all plug-ins except the Announcement plug-in - Still nothing.
prudat Says:
June 29th, 2008 at 5:48 am
IS there anyway to trigger a box like this on a button (or link) press? I love the idea but am looking to have the pop-up supplement a banner on my site. Likw it would say click here for more info and the box would popup without taking them away from the page.
Sajith M.R Says:
June 29th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Hello FruityOaty,
What you have done, is a wonder full job. Yep, IE shows script error. I am now working on that. I used lightwindow js. But now switching into lightweight js. The problem will be resolved on this monday. Regards

Sajith. M.R
Sajith M.R Says:
June 30th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Hello friends,

The plugin is not working on IE. I will correct the bug and upload the new one soooon

Regards
Sajith
blackproof Says:
June 30th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
well the plugin works fine but i needed some help from you m8 how can i contact you plzz in need of help urgent as possible
René van Gellekom Says:
July 1st, 2008 at 2:27 am
No it didn’t work on my blog so i removed the plugin. It is a shame, but I think the release of the plugin was to soon.
Joe Says:
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I thought it wasn’t working on my site as well but when I checked in FireFox it worked great. Love the plugin just needs to work with I.E. Oh and making it do what Prudat said would be a great feature. Thanks
hmmm Says:
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
@all:
it is working fine me.
please follow the below steps:
1)Download the plugin and extract it to ur computer.
2)upload the announcement folder to ur plugin directory of wordpress.
3)activate the plugin via plugin tab in ur admin area.
4)open “setting” tab there u will see “Announcement” click it.
5)in “Announcement” click “Edit Announcement” link then a page will open .
6)write whatever u want in that page and click save (don’t click publish).
7)after that again open “Announcement” tab(step 4) check the activate box and click save thats all.
8)now open ur home page to check the announcement .

thanks to the plugin author .
Daniel Says:
July 4th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Hi there,

this plugin relly looks great and works on your site very well

But on my site it takes no effect: http://www.celtic-rock.de

Could this depend on the theme? I use k2

Best wishes

Daniel
Peter Says:
July 5th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Installs fine in wp 2.5.1 but i get this error message
I do not get this message on any other plugin on my site at ALL
so as far as i am concerned apache is set up properly
————————————————————————
Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /website.ca/wp-admin/< on this server.
Scott Says:
July 18th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
doesn’t work for me….I’m on wordpress 2.5, i tried everything mentioned to no avail. Bummer
Bong (JB) Says:
July 19th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Hi again!

This looks sexier than the WWSGD plugin. I’ll try it on my blog. Thanks.
Jeff Says:
July 20th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Well… didn’t work for me, either (WP 2.5.1). Looks like it’ll be great, though!
Bep Says:
July 24th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Strange, it didn’t work while using Safari for my site (yes, cookies have been deleted before the try), but work fine while using firefox (which i usually never use…).

So i guess it means that the plugin works fine. Hope that my readers are using firefox :p

Great plugin, however ! An idea of developpement : perhaps some contextual announcements, depending on the way the person arrives to the site (from google, from a specific web site, directly, …) or the page the reader is trying to access !??
Peter Brown Says:
July 28th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
It didn’t work for me either. I’m using 2.6. Looks great, I’d appreciate it if you could let me know if you do get it working.
Henrik Says:
July 29th, 2008 at 2:02 am
There is one major problem!

When I use this on a Scandinavian language WORDPRESS I get very weird characters….For example ØÅÆ dosent work…have you forgot to use the WP native language files?

Best regards
Henrik
Ad-Deen Says:
July 30th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Not showing for me.

http://www.the-deen.co.uk

Regards…
daniel Says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
worked for me after I put this in footer.php

But now I have the problem how to style it?
mesol Says:
August 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
maybe because of the default Publish Status of Page created for this plugin is “Private”. Please uncheck Private status and Save
Tobias Says:
August 21st, 2008 at 6:40 pm
nice plugin for listbuiling. thank you!
Jeff Says:
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:35 am
Works for us.

Thanks for an excellent plugin.

BOO!

Jeff
Jeff Says:
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:35 am
Oh, works here…

http://scareo.com

Thanks again!
Greg Says:
August 27th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Just loaded the plugin, activated the plugin and check marked active and edited the announcement on the private page. Cleared all cookies in all 5 of my browsers, to include…Safari, IE5, FF3, Camino and Opera. I am still getting nothing. Any suggestions?

Thank you.
Tricia Says:
August 28th, 2008 at 4:32 am
I have tried everything and it is not working.
Steffen Says:
September 4th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
I’ve tried this plugin and not working for me neither. I really think this is a great idea, but it needs some more finetuning. Time for an update!
Cagalj Says:
September 7th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Guys and girls plugin is working with Firefox 3 but in IE7 not so all of you who are killing ur self to get work if you are using IE to preview will not work,give it try with firefox and youll se it is working…but yeah i think I will remove plugin till author fix this problem.

Or maybe some of you knows how to do that?
Regards