90
Announcer – Sticky Message Banner & Notification Bar
A nimble little messenger for your most important site updates.
HealthyGrowing
90/100
Users appreciate the flexible customization and responsive support despite occasional issues with placement rules.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.8★
40 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+127%
Growing fast
28 → 64 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +127% in the last year
28/day a year ago→64/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAnnouncer is widely praised as a flexible, lightweight and feature-rich banner plugin with strong support, though at least one user reports it can ignore placement rules.
What people like
- +Highly flexible and customizable settings for colors, buttons, banner locations, and interactions×3
- +Responsive support that is fast, kind, and helpful×4
- +Lightweight and not resource-intensive×3
- +Feature-rich with many capabilities×3
- +Allows scheduling of announcements
- +Modern looking design of announcements
- +Premium version considered worth the cost
Common complaints
- −Banner sometimes appears on pages where it should be hidden, ignoring location rules
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.74★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 5%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 40 total
Latest reviews · 40 analyzed
- 2025-12-31★★★★★This dose the basic WorkMohsin Alam
- 2025-01-26★★★★★Simple yet effective banner pluginskylabb
- 2024-07-25★★★★★some “is not” or “is” rule issuenilreb5
- 2024-07-23★★★★★A nice very useful banner announcer pluginpeopleinside
- 2023-11-26★★★★★Great plugin!kopovsky
- 2023-08-25★★★★★La meilleure de toutes les barres !evolute2
- 2023-04-22★★★★★Superb plugin!cullachie
- 2023-01-24★★★★★GREAT pluginVijuga Plus
- 2022-11-21★★★★★GREAT pluginBob333
- 2022-10-22★★★★★FANTASTICO …!jcvazquezr
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
63
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
64
Prior 7-day baseline
52
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
70
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-1.6%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.56
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
90%
5★ share in analyzed sample
5%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.75 → 4.74★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered