Announcement bar

Ira’s announcement bar feature lets you fix up to 3 announcements to the top of each page. It’s great for promoting sales or linking to company announcements.

Here, you can see the announcement bar here being used to show off a new coupon code:

Ira's announcement bar

Set up the announcement bar

To set up the announcement bar:

From your theme’s “Customize” screen, select the Announcement bar section.
Use the Add announcement button to start adding an announcement.

For more information see the Add announcements article below.
Check the Show announcement checkbox.

Note that the bar does not show up if you haven’t created an announcement yet.
Choose the Time between announcements using the slider.

The time is expressed in seconds. So, the setting 5 means that the customer has 5 seconds to read an announcement before the bar transitions to the next announcement.
Use the Save button in the top-right corner when you are finished editing.

Settings

The announcement bar has the following settings:

Add announcement: Add up to 3 announcements using this button.
Show announcement: Check this checkbox to enable the announcement bar feature.
Time between announcements: Choose the time, in seconds, that an announcement should be shown.
If you only have 1 announcement set up, this setting does nothing.

Add announcement

When you enable the announcement bar, you can add up to 3 announcements to it. Each announcement can be configured as a link to another store page.

In the video above, you can see the announcement bar configured with 2 announcements.

To add an announcement:

From your theme’s “Customize” screen, select the Announcement bar section.
Use the Add announcement button to start adding an announcement.
Fill in the announcement fields.
Use the Save button in the top-right corner when you are finished editing.

You can add up to 3 announcements.

Settings

Each announcement has the following settings:

Announcement text: Add text to be displayed to customers.
We recommend keeping this to between 4 and 8 words.
Announcement link: Select a page that this announcement links to.
When a customer clicks on the announcement, they are taken to this page.
Background color: Choose the color of the announcement bar for this announcement.
Text color: Choose the text color for this announcement.