Beacon — Announcement Bar & Notice Widget for WordPress

Beacon adds lightweight, good-looking announcement bars and notice widgets to any WordPress site — announce a sale, a shipping deadline, a new release or a cookie notice, and control exactly when and where each one appears.

Build as many bars as you need with a message, call-to-action button and colors; position them top or bottom; schedule a start and end time with an optional live countdown; and target the whole site, front page, posts or pages. Bars display automatically in the footer or inline via the [beacon id="12"] shortcode.

Highlights

• WordPress 6.2+ · PHP 8.0+ — clean, namespaced, standards-first code.
• Multiple bars with priority ordering; top or bottom position.
• Start/end scheduling with optional live countdown timer.
• Target entire site, front page, posts or pages.
• Dismissible with cookie memory (configurable days).
• Shortcode + automatic footer display; clean uninstall.