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

by rpetersen29Version 3.3.3

Display a simple banner/bar at the top or bottom of your website. Now with multi-banner support.

Active installs
50,000+
#778 of 1,000
Downloads, all time
2.2M
2,150,905
Downloads, 30 days
40.4K
7.8K in the last 7
Rating
4.8 / 5
45 reviews
Last updated
16 days ago
Oct 15, 2026
Version
3.3.3
101 releases

Upkeep and compatibility

Last updatedOctober 15, 2026Updated in the last 3 months
Tested up toWordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release
Needs WordPress3.0.1 or newer
Needs PHPNot stated
First publishedJuly 14, 2015
Support, last two months1 of 1 threads resolved (100%)

Reviews

4.8 / 5 from 45 reviews

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Downloads, last 30 days

Low 137 a dayHigh 14.9K a day

What the author says it does

This plugin makes it easy to display a simple announcement banner or bar at the top of your website. You can easily customize the color of the links, text, and background of the bar from within the settings. You can also customize to your heart’s desire by adding your own custom CSS. There’s also a fancy preview section within the settings so you can see your changes before you save them.

Now with multi-banner support

With Pro features you can display up to 5 separate banners on your site. Banners can be shown simultaneously or plan weeks of banners by showing them consecutively.

The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.

Questions the author answers

What does the banner look like in my DOM?

This is how the banner will look in your HTML:

<div id="simple-banner" class="simple-banner"> <div class="simple-banner-text"> <span> YOUR SIMPLE BANNER TEXT HERE </span> </div> </div>

The banner or changes to the banner aren’t showing up, or are only showing up when I’m logged in, what’s wrong?

Your browser frequently caches scripts associated with a website in order to improve speed and performance. There are also some

wordpress plugins that cache scripts to improve performance. If you aren’t seeing your banner or the changes you made to the banner,

first clear your browser cache and if that doesn’t work, look for any plugin that bundles or caches scripts and clear that as well.

Why is my banner covering my header or behind my header?

Your theme probably uses absolute positioning for its header in this case. Try changing the positioning of your banner or change “Prepend element” to <header> and see if that helps. If none of this works, you may need a custom solution for your banner. You can either try to find another plugin that suits your needs or you can purchase the pro version and open a support ticket to fix your situation.

Is there a Pro version?

Yes, but you should look through the support topics before you decide if you need the pro version.

Does this plugin use cookies?

Yes, they are used only if you enable the close button. These cookies fall under the category of “strictly necessary cookies” and do not need consent from the user, more information here.

If cookies are disabled on the user’s browser, the banners close button expiration setting will not work and the banner will show on each refresh.

How do I re-enable my banner after I hit the close button

You can clear your browser’s cookies or in the browser’s console you can execute:

document.cookie = "simplebannerclosed=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 UTC; path=/";

You can also set your Close button expiration to blank, 0, or a date in the past. This method may require a refresh or two of the browser on your website page.

Latest changelog entry

3.3.3

  • Bug fixes, test against 7.1.3

Screenshots

First 4 of 5, from WordPress.org.

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Where this page's numbers come from

Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.