A message that matters gets lost in a sidebar widget or ignored as just another popup. Heralda puts it where visitors actually look – a sticky bar at the top or bottom of your site, gone the moment it’s no longer useful.

Try the live demo — a real WordPress site with a sample bar already published, no install needed.

What you can announce

Announcements — site-wide notices, maintenance windows, or news.
Promotions — time-limited offers with a built-in countdown timer.
One bar at a time — if several bars are eligible to show, Heralda shows the most recently published one, so your site never looks cluttered with competing banners.

Looks good in one click

5 design presets (Minimal, Bold, Corporate, Playful, Promo) that set a matching style in one click. Everything stays editable afterwards.
10 colour presets, or pick your own with the custom colour pickers.
3 bar styles: Full-width, Floating (inset with shadow), or Pill (fully rounded).
CTA button styles (Outline, Solid, Pill) and position (inline next to the text, right edge of the bar, or below the text).
7 built-in icons, entrance animation (slide-in or fade-in), and left/centre/right text alignment.
Typography: use your theme’s font or pick sans-serif, serif, monospace or bold condensed, plus normal, bold, uppercase or italic text styles.

Built to get out of the way

Dismissible. Visitors close it once, and it stays hidden for as long as you choose.
Scheduling. Set a start and end date so a bar appears and disappears automatically — no need to remember to take it down.
Page targeting. Show a bar site-wide or only on the pages you pick.
Fast. CSS/JS load only on pages where a bar will actually show, and the frontend script has no jQuery dependency.
No external services and no tracking. Nothing leaves your site.

Who it’s for

Site owners running a sale, a launch, or a maintenance notice who want it seen without resorting to a popup.
Agencies who need a quick, on-brand promo bar for a client site without installing a heavier marketing plugin.
Content teams running scheduled campaigns who don’t want to remember to manually take a bar down afterward.

Want more?

Need more than one bar at a time, extra bar types (social share, WooCommerce free-shipping progress), advanced targeting (by user role or device), a repeating schedule, analytics, or A/B testing? Those are available in Heralda Pro — a separate, optional add-on. Everything listed above is fully functional in the free version with no restrictions or nag screens.

External services

This plugin does not connect to any external service. No data leaves your site. All bar content, settings, and dismiss state are stored either in your own WordPress database (bar content and settings) or in the visitor’s own browser localStorage (dismiss state) – nothing is sent to Heralda, CognitoLab, or any third party.