The announcement bar: putting a message across your site

The announcement bar is a strip across your site carrying one message — a sale, a new release, a live show, a schedule change. You create one announcement and choose where and when it appears.

Setting it up

1. Go to Announcements in your dashboard.
2. Turn on Enable announcement and write your announcement message.
3. Choose where it should appear:
   • Tour — your public site, seen by visitors who haven't joined.
   • Members area — where members sign in.
   • Both.
4. Optionally add a link to make the whole bar clickable — a full https:// address or a site path like /join. Leave it blank for a message-only bar.
5. Save. Your site updates within about 30 seconds.

Scheduling

When should it start showing?

• As soon as I save
• At a specific date and time

When should it stop showing?

• Keep showing until I turn it off
• Stop showing at a specific time

Countdown

You can add a countdown that ticks down to your stop time — the announcement hides itself automatically when it's reached. This is the natural partner to a limited-time offer: the bar creates the urgency, the offer captures it.

Status

Your announcement shows as Draft, Scheduled, Active, or Ended so you always know what visitors are seeing.

Tips

• Keep it to one short sentence — the bar is narrow, especially on phones.
• Always link it somewhere. An announcement fans can't act on is wasted.
• Set a stop time when you create it, so an old promo never lingers on your site.