Category: WordPress Notification Bar

How to show announcements in WordPress
FooPlugins Guide
FooPlugins

How to Add an Announcement Bar in WordPress (2 Methods)

Want to display eye-catching announcements on your WordPress website? Then you need an announcement banner plugin. In this article, we introduce you to the popular FooBar plugin and run through the steps of using it to add announcement banners to your site.  What Are Announcement Bars and Why Use Them?

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How to Set Up WooCommerce Flash Sales That Convert
Ecommerce Strategies
Tam Vincent

How to Set Up WooCommerce Flash Sales That Convert

A flash sale is an effective way to create a sense of urgency that drives quick sales, while helping to clear out excess inventory or old stock. However, it can be difficult to properly set up flash sales in WooCommerce, with challenges such as nailing down the right promotion strategy

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Top 7 Countdown Plugins for WordPress to Create Urgency
WordPress Guide
Tam Vincent

Top 7 Countdown Plugins for WordPress to Create Urgency

Are you looking for a surefire way to boost conversions on your WordPress site? Any ecommerce (or WooCommerce) and WordPress sites selling services can benefit from an increase in conversions, which would result in greater profits.  Using countdown timers as an effective way of creating perceived scarcity, which influences buying

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Top Bar WordPress Plugins in 2023: The 8 Best Options
WordPress Guide
FooPlugins

WordPress Notification Bar Plugin Comparison Guide

Want to alert your WordPress website visitors to new product launches, sales, or other important announcements? Then you need a WordPress notification bar plugin! A notification bar is an eye-catching, non-intrusive way to capture your audience’s attention at the top of your site, making it ideal for highlighting special promotions,

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How to boost black friday sales
Ecommerce Strategies
Tam Vincent

7 Ways to Use FooBar to Boost Black Friday Sales Now

It’s nearly time for the biggest sales of the year! That’s right, Black Friday is around the corner. But if you want to convert visitors into customers, then you need to start promoting your Black Friday sales as soon as possible. In fact, you can start promoting your sale now,

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Creative Newsletter Sign-up Tips to Gain More Subscribers
WordPress Notification Bar
Tam Vincent

Creative Newsletter Sign-up Tips to Gain More Subscribers

Owning a mailing list is one of the best ways to keep people engaged with your brand or business. You may already be familiar with basic newsletter sign-up strategies and practices, such as implementing CTAs on key landing pages, offering an incentive to motivate users to sign up, or simply

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best WordPress cookie notice plugins
WordPress Notification Bar
Tam Vincent

Exploring Top-Rated Cookie Consent Plugins for WordPress

If you run a WordPress website, you know that making sure your visitors are aware of your cookie policy is crucial. Not only is it a good way to gain their trust, but it’s also a legal requirement under laws like the GDPR and CCPA. So how can you ensure

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Best Plugins for Call to Actions in WordPress
Practical Tips
FooPlugins

The 7 Best Plugins for Call to Actions in WordPress [2024]

Want to increase conversions on your WordPress website? Then you need to improve the way you display call to actions (CTAs). Call to actions are an important part of any website but are especially useful for an eCommerce website. They help you to communicate important information to site visitors and

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must-have ecommerce features in FooPlugins
Practical Tips
Tam Vincent

Must-Have Ecommerce Features from FooPlugins

Want to turn your WordPress website into a profitable business? Whether you’re selling photography, artwork or t-shirts, your website could be a profitable source of revenue for you. All you need is the right tools. WooCommerce is one of the top ecommerce plugins available for WordPress, so this is a

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Foobar update new look and new features
Company Announcements
Tam Vincent

FooBar Update: New Look and New Features

We’ve recently updated FooBar and FooBar PRO, and there are a few new features that you’re sure to love. Notification Bar Selection The first change you will see is the Notification Bar selection. We’ve updated this to give you a better understanding of the various bar types and how they

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how to offer free shipping without sinking your ecommmerce store
Practical Tips
FooPlugins

How To Offer Free Shipping Without Sinking Your Ecommerce Site

Until around 2002, free shipping was relatively unheard of. Then Amazon introduced Free Super Saver Shipping for orders above $99, eventually dropping the threshold to $25. Today, free shipping is ubiquitous in ecommerce and most consumers have come to expect it. But there are ways to implement it responsibly on

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woocommerce free shipping bar now available
Company Announcements
Tam Vincent

WooCommerce Free Shipping Bar Now Available

The latest bar type in FooBar Pro, the WooCommerce Free Shipping Bar, is now available. This bar allows you to set up a Free Shipping notification, as well as show customers when they have spent enough money to qualify for the free shipping. This is a great addition to any

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How to boost fomo on your ecommerce site
Practical Tips
FooPlugins

7 Ways To Boost FOMO On Your WordPress Ecommerce Site

There are anywhere between 12 – 24 million eCommerce websites online, with more going live every day. That makes it essential for you, as an eCommerce site owner using WordPress, to pull out all the stops when it comes to driving sales – and FOMO is a powerful tool for

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Click To Tweet Bar Now Available
Company Announcements
Tam Vincent

Click To Tweet Bar Now Available in FooBar PRO

FooBar Pro now comes with a Click to Tweet bar! The latest update brings you this handy new bar-type, allowing you to include custom made tweets in your articles or on your pages. Using this bar makes it really simple for readers to share a snippet or a link back

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adding notification bars to wordpress
Practical Tips
FooPlugins

Why You Should Add Notification Bars To Your WordPress Site

When a visitor logs on to your ecommerce website, you want them to do two things: stay, and perform an action – buy a product, subscribe to your newsletter or something else. Notification bars are a great way to encourage visitors to do these things. Here we discuss what they

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pros and cons of using popup notifications on wordpress
Practical Tips
FooPlugins

Pros And Cons Of Using Popup Notifications On Your WordPress Site

Popup notifications are extremely popular because they force website visitors to engage with them. They are particularly useful in ecommerce, in countering exit intent or cart abandonment. Yet they can become annoying if overused, and Google has said that it will penalise sites using “intrusive interstitials”. In this article, we

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How to create effective countdown notification bars
FooPlugins Guide
Tam Vincent

How To Create Effective Countdown Notification Bars

What’s the average time spent on one of your pages? How long is the average session? There’s a good chance that neither of these numbers are very high. In fact, the average time spent on a page could be as little as 15 seconds. This doesn’t give you a lot

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Latest FooBar Update Improves On User Experience
Company Announcements
Tam Vincent

Jan 2021 FooBar Update: Scheduling, Effects And More

We’ve recently released an update to FooBar (free and Pro), geared towards improving user experience. The FooBar update will also make it easier for you to get the most out of your notification bars. Below we take a look at what’s new in FooBar: Realtime Previews It can be frustrating,

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FooBar relaunched
Company Announcements
Tam Vincent

FooBar Relaunched: Improved WordPress Notifications

We’re hugely excited to announce the relaunch of FooBar, our WordPress notification bar plugin. FooBar has been updated, streamlined and improved, and we think it’s looking fantastic. Some of you may remember FooBar from the early FooPlugins days. It was a simple notification bar, that worked well enough. But we

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FooPlugins Bundles
WordPress Gallery
Tam Vincent

FooPlugins Bundles: What You Need To Know

FooPlugins Bundles gives you access to all the incredible features of FooBox PRO and FooGallery PRO. Plus you can save up to 40%. Here’s what you need to know about the FooPlugins Bundles.  FooBox PRO FooBox is a responsive image lightbox. This allows you to open photos, videos or html

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Rate FooGallery and FooBox on WordPress.org
WordPress Gallery
Tam Vincent

Are You a Fan of Foo? Rate Us On WordPress.org

Are you a happy user of FooGallery or FooBox? Is there something more you want from your favourite Foo Plugin? Then we need your help! We’re trying to grow our Foo Community. That means YOU! And your friends and anyone else who can benefit from using FooGallery or FooBox. To

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