WPFront Notification Bar

82 Quality Score

Active Installs

21/30

With 50,000 active installs and a 90/100 user rating from 131 reviews, it sits in a comfortable middle tier of WordPress plugins by adoption.

Update Freshness

25/25

The plugin was updated on 2026-05-20 and is tested with WordPress 7.0, which signals active and current maintenance.

User Rating

14/15

A 90/100 score from 131 raters is strong and suggests most users find it does the job without friction.

Support Health

8/15

The zero support threads, while indicating low demand for help, also means there is no trackable support responsiveness to evaluate.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Requiring WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.0+, and being tested against WordPress 7.0, gives it a full compatibility score for current environments.

Scores higher than 88% of indexed plugins

About

Easily lets you create a bar on top or bottom to display a notification.

Active Installs 50k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.5/5

Last Updated 2026-08-18 4:27am GMT

Requires WordPress 5.0+

Tested Up To 7.1

Requires PHP 7.0+

Security History

4 known vulnerabilities, all patched

4 Medium

Most recent: March 25, 2024

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What It Does

WPFront Notification Bar adds a horizontal bar to the top or bottom of your WordPress site, displaying a custom message, call to action, or button. You can control timing, colours, display rules, and dismiss behaviour from a straightforward settings panel. It is a single-purpose tool focused on one bar at a time rather than a full announcement suite.

Who It's For

This plugin fits small to mid-sized site owners who need a single prominent banner for cookie consent, flash sales, maintenance notices, or newsletter prompts. It works well for businesses that want a lightweight solution without the overhead of a marketing automation suite. Developers and agencies running multi-bar campaigns may find it too limited.

Who Should Skip It

If you need rotating announcements, multiple bars on different pages, A/B testing, or deep analytics integration, you will outgrow this plugin quickly. Sites already using a full announcement or FOMO tool like NotificationX should not layer this on top.

The Bottom Line

WPFront Notification Bar earns an 82.04/100 quality score by doing one thing well: a simple, configurable notification bar with solid maintenance and compatibility. The lack of public support threads is a minor transparency gap, but the strong rating and recent update offset it. It is a safe, lightweight choice for a single-banner need, though power users will want to compare it against Simple Banner or NotificationX.

Pick this if you want both a notification bar and a sticky header menu in one plugin, and you value the larger 100,000-install user base.

Simple Banner – Easily add multiple Banners/Bars/Notifications/Announcements to the top or bottom of your website 83/100

Choose this when you need to run multiple banners simultaneously or rotate announcements across different pages.

Manage Notification E-mails 83/100

This solves a different problem (email notification control rather than front-end bars) and is only relevant if your real need is admin or transactional email management.

NotificationX – FOMO, Live Sales Notification, WooCommerce Sales Popup, GDPR, Social Proof, Announcement Banner & Floating Notification Bar 83/100

Go with NotificationX if you want FOMO popups, WooCommerce sales notifications, and social proof features beyond a simple bar.

Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro 81/100

This is a niche WooCommerce tool for stock alerts and is not a general notification bar replacement.