84
Simple Banner – Easily add multiple Banners/Bars/Notifications/Announcements to the top or bottom of your website
Simple announcements that might slip behind your header.
HealthyDeclining
84/100
Users appreciate the simplicity and responsive support. Some compatibility issues exist with Divi.
Active installs
~55,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 50k+
Rating
4.8★
45 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-28%
Declining fast
307 → 222 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 28% vs a year ago
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
Declining fast · -28% in the last year
307/day a year ago→222/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySimple Banner is well-regarded as a lightweight, easy-to-configure notification bar plugin with notably responsive developer support, though it can behave unreliably with certain page builders like Divi, and a handful of users report inconsistent display issues on mobile.
What people like
- +Easy to install and configure without being overwhelming×6
- +Developer is responsive and helpful in the support forum×8
- +Lightweight and not resource-heavy×3
- +Responsive design works on mobile and desktop without extra CSS tweaks×2
- +Supports advanced use cases such as creating different banners for mobile, tablet, and desktop
- +Allows custom CSS while saving significant time over manual theme editing
Common complaints
- −Does not work reliably with the Divi page builder, particularly when Divi's 'hide header until scroll' feature is enabled — banner appears under the header instead of above it×2
- −Close button does not always display even when enabled
- −Banner sometimes fails to display, including on Android mobile devices
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.80★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 9%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 45 total
Latest reviews · 45 analyzed
- 2026-03-12★★★★★very good and practicalFrancisco Pires
- 2026-01-07★★★★★Exactly as advertised—Simple, responsive, and reliableanneminford
- 2024-09-03★★★★★Suits my needs, good supportmelbatoast4
- 2024-01-31★★★★★Super easy + responsive developerandrewlmcgee1-shot
- 2023-11-17★★★★★Doesn't play nice with Diviklynam
- 2023-03-01★★★★★Perfect for my applicationwittusus
- 2022-10-27★★★★★Perfect for my siteangeljs
- 2022-05-05★★★★★I have this installed on two sites.creatopia
- 2022-04-19★★★★★Brilliant pluginirish_guy
- 2022-02-06★★★★★Exactly What I Neededleanne
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.
253
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
230
Prior 7-day baseline
539
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
4,128
Mean release-day peak (30d)
821
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
+10.0%
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.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.32
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
96%
5★ share in analyzed sample
9%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.82 → 4.80★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered