Varsby – Accessible Notification & Announcement Bar

Varsby displays a simple, fully customizable notification bar for announcements, promotions and urgent alerts — and it’s the one that’s genuinely accessible: the bar it renders conforms to WCAG 2.2 AA, a differentiator most announcement-bar plugins skip. Features include:

• Save a library of notification bars and switch which one is live — keep a Black Friday bar, a maintenance notice and a sale banner ready, and enable the one you need without redoing your work. The free version shows one bar at a time.
• Message text with basic HTML support (<strong>, <em>, <a>).
• Optional call-to-action button with its own text, link, colours and ”open in new tab” option.
• Background, text and button color pickers, plus an adjustable font size.
• Position the bar at the top or bottom, sticky (stays visible) or static (scrolls away).
• Show site-wide, on the front page only, or everywhere except the front page.
• Show on desktop, mobile, or both.
• Toggle visibility for logged-in users.
• Visitors can dismiss the bar — it then stays hidden for a duration you choose (1 to 365 days, 1 day by default). Each bar remembers its own dismissal, so hiding one never suppresses another.
• Lightweight: only enqueues assets when needed.

Whether you need a sticky notification bar, a promo or sale banner, a floating call-to-action bar, or a simple header announcement bar, Varsby stays lightweight and only loads its assets when the bar is actually shown.