Thickbox Announcement

ThickboxAnnouncement is a wordpress plugin for displaying announcements in a thickbox (lightbox). several setting let you decide, when, where and how often the announcement is displayed. Thickbox Announcement uses the thickbox and jquery library which are included in wordpress, which guarantees compatibility to other plugins.

Features

  • Displaying of announcements in a thickbox (lightbox)
  • Simple and detailled configuration
  • Compatible to other plugins because only wordpress built-in libraries are used

Download

Die aktuelle Version ist 1.0.7.
Download it at the official Wordpress Repository.

Bugs

Please use the comment form to submit any bugs.

History

  • V1.0.7
    1. FIXED Filters are not applied to the content
  • V1.0.6
    1. FIXED Announcement possibly not displayed when using mode ‘once’ or ‘everytime the user enters the site’
  • V1.0.5
    1. FIXED If the content page is deleted, a new one is not created automatically
  • V1.0.4
    1. FIXED External resource is not displayed (empty box) at the frontend
  • V1.0.3
    1. FIXED No announcement displayed if date fields are empty
    2. FIXED I18n not working
    3. ADDED Calender Date Picker for Dates
    4. Optimization of settings page (unnecessary elements will be hidden)
  • V1.0.2
    1. FIXED Error that after save the ID of the internal post gets lost
    2. Redesign of Settings page
    3. Validity of announcement by date from/to
  • v1.0.1
    1. i18n
  • v1.0.0
    1. Initial Version

Donation

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Comments

  1. Works great, thank you

    Written at 18. June 2009 on 17:43 by baron

  2. any chance that you might be able to do geo-based showing… so we could select to only show the announcement to US based users? maybe by using one of the maxmind databases or something? this would make this 10000000x more powerful

    Written at 19. June 2009 on 13:45 by Chris

  3. geo-based showing is not planned at the moment. maybe in one of the future releases.

    Written at 24. August 2009 on 13:17 by admin

  4. This is exactly what I have been looking for. I had been using a sticky note script but that required me to manually open the theme files and edit them. Thanks!

    Written at 25. August 2009 on 3:16 by Awesome Links

  5. If you delete the announcement page, they plugin will not recreate it. If I recreate the page manually, what settings should I use?

    Written at 3. September 2009 on 18:58 by cactuscarl

  6. I just installed it and now what? Iḿ pretty lost here… what should I do?

    Written at 4. September 2009 on 19:59 by Ricardo

  7. @cactuscarl: yes you’re right, the announcemente page is not recreated. you can fix this by deactivating and reactivating the plug-in. i plan this for a future release.

    @Ricardo: Goto settings -> tb announcement and setup your announcement by turning on the announcement in the global options and than decide when and how often the announcement should be displayed. and dont forget to provide an external resource or fill in some content…

    Written at 7. September 2009 on 6:50 by admin

  8. @cactucscarl: A new update is available which automatically will create a new page if the used page is deleted.

    Written at 7. September 2009 on 21:50 by admin

  9. hello. this is very awesome and user friendly plugin. i really like it.
    one thing though. it seems that it appear ‘behind’ my menu. is there any tweak that i can do to make the announcement appear in front of my menu page?
    thanks

    Written at 9. September 2009 on 15:17 by Z

  10. hi Z
    My Plugin is using the wordpress built-in libraries and css for displaying the thickbox. Maybe you have to change something in your theme. can you provide an example, so i can have a look at it?

    Written at 9. September 2009 on 16:38 by admin

  11. yeah. you can view the announcement on the website i’m working on. you can go to http://www.bubbleebizz.com.my/v2 to check it out. :)

    Written at 10. September 2009 on 5:24 by z

  12. problem is the following style in your screen.css

    #menu .pads {
    position: relative;
    background: #333;
    z-index: 999;
    }

    change the value from z-index to something smaller than 90 (e.g. 50) and it works…

    Written at 11. September 2009 on 8:20 by admin

  13. ah the z-index. i’ll try. thank you man :D

    Written at 13. September 2009 on 18:26 by z

  14. how do I get shortcodes to work in the thickbox? I would like to insert my icontact signup form (shortcode = [icontact id=5] ) but every time that i do it, it just shows the text it doesn’t execute the shortcode. I don’t know what to do

    Written at 15. September 2009 on 18:33 by Brandon

  15. I’m getting an error when trying to install the system on a windows server. Here is a screenshot. Any idea what might be causing the error? We are using PHP 4.4.7 on an NT server

    http://www.impressionengineers.com/r7

    Written at 18. September 2009 on 4:52 by Adam

  16. any idea how to make the output be filtered by the qtranslate plugin? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/qtranslate/ that plugin is a multilanguage plugin and right now, all language version announcements are being shown. I’d be happy to either show only 1 language for all, or according to the language of the browser show the corresponding version.

    could you have a look at that plugin and see if your plugin can be made compatible?

    Written at 18. September 2009 on 9:17 by ovidiu

  17. i’m currently working on the next release which will apply all filters, so the icontact as well as the qtranslate should be working fine in the next release. next release will be at the end of next week.

    Written at 24. September 2009 on 17:08 by admin

  18. :-) great, looking forward to that.

    Written at 25. September 2009 on 9:30 by ovidiu

  19. Great plugin, and thanks for spending time updating it. A feature suggestion:

    Be great if one could specify multiple external and/or inline content, and have them shown to visitors in rotation.

    Thanks

    Written at 5. October 2009 on 6:45 by finid

  20. defining of multiple announcements is planned for the next release… just give me a few weeks :-)

    Written at 5. October 2009 on 22:54 by faebu

  21. i get this message everytime i try to activate the plugin :s

    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONST, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /nfs/c02/h07/mnt/22980/domains/blurinews.com/html/wp-content/plugins/fsthickboxannouncement/fsThickboxAnnouncement.php on line 14

    Written at 26. October 2009 on 16:21 by Chakib

  22. Please upgrade to a PHP 5 version

    Written at 26. October 2009 on 16:30 by faebu

  23. This plugin causes FireFox to load a blank page and fail. Any idea why? It works fine in Chrome but FireFox begins to load the page, then jumps to a blank page.

    Written at 28. October 2009 on 13:54 by Chris

  24. This plugin causes FireFox to load a blank page and fail. Any idea why? It works fine in Chrome but FireFox begins to load the page, then jumps to a blank page.

    It happens also with me. In your FAQ at worpress.org it says:

    I have set-up an announcement, but no announcement is displayed

    Both hooks wp_head and wp_footer are being used. Check your template for the call of wp_head() and wp_footer().

    What should we do from that point?
    Thanks… yes, i am basic at php code…

    Written at 24. November 2009 on 2:36 by ALMS1978

  25. I just have one question: Why can´t I enter a date? The field for that is grey and if I put the cursor in it, it doesn´t write anything in it… help!

    Written at 28. November 2009 on 20:00 by Stefanie

  26. It works beautifully in Internet Explorer, but in FireFox (which is what the client uses) there is no Close button. Help?

    Written at 1. January 2010 on 9:42 by DJ

  27. Great plugin !
    How can I desactivate the text “Permanent link to this post (26 words, 1 image, estimated 6 secs reading time)” ?

    thanks

    Written at 5. January 2010 on 23:43 by donald

  28. sorry for my last comment : this text is added by post teaser plugin !

    Written at 5. January 2010 on 23:50 by donald

  29. Hi, kann in dem Plugin der Zeitpunkt der Einblendung (z.B. erst nach 10 Sekunden) verändert werden, falls ja, wo? Danke für die Beantwortung. Beste Grüße.

    Written at 8. January 2010 on 13:39 by Werner

  30. so what are the chances this plugin gets wp 2.9 complainant..?

    Written at 22. January 2010 on 9:23 by parth

  31. @Werner: Nein eine Verzögerung ist im Moment nicht vorgesehen
    @parth: As soon as i find some time, i will make the plug-in wp 2.9 compliant. i expect this at the end of february

    Written at 23. January 2010 on 15:01 by faebu

  32. Nice plugin. Working fine in 2.9.1!

    Written at 15. February 2010 on 3:56 by Tony

  33. Hello,
    I want to change the background color ( white to grey for example)
    How can I do that ??? Is it possible …???

    Thanks a lot !

    Written at 20. February 2010 on 0:33 by stef

  34. Hello,
    I m trying to change theme of jquery ( here : http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ )
    I ve changed some files into your plugin (css and images) but it doesnt work well !

    Can someone help me ??

    Thanks and best regards

    (here : http://steph044.free.fr/wp/ with UI darkness )

    Stef

    Written at 20. February 2010 on 12:37 by stef

  35. I ve changed color in thickbox.css in wp-include/js etc …. but I thing it not a good solution … ( for future update of WP core …)

    Written at 21. February 2010 on 21:44 by stef

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