Descripción
NoticeWave Popup lets you create and manage rich announcement popups for your WordPress site through a clean, step-by-step wizard. Show event notices, admission alerts, general updates, or any time-sensitive information to your visitors — with full control over when, where, and how they appear.
Key Features
- 5-step wizard interface — configure each announcement through a guided Setup Schedule Audience Content Action flow.
- Scheduling — set a start date and end date. Announcements automatically appear and disappear on the correct day with no manual intervention needed.
- Priority system — when multiple active announcements exist, the one with the highest priority (1–100) is shown first. Lower-priority ones appear after visitors dismiss the first.
- Audience targeting — show a popup on all pages, the homepage only, or specific pages you choose.
- Announcement types — categorise as Event, Admission, Alert, or General; each type gets a distinct color badge in the admin list.
- Rich content — optional title, description (with HTML support via the WordPress content filter), and a banner image.
- Call to action — choose between a clickable button (custom URL), a clickable banner image, or no action at all. WhatsApp is natively supported with country flag + dial-code selection.
- Auto-close timer — optionally auto-dismiss the popup after 5, 10, or 30 seconds.
- Cookie-based dismiss tracking — once a visitor closes a popup, it is suppressed for a configurable number of days so it never feels spammy.
- Accessibility — full keyboard navigation, ARIA roles (
dialog,aria-modal,aria-labelledby), focus trapping, and focus restoration on dismiss. - No external dependencies — all assets (including the intl-tel-input library for WhatsApp dial codes) are bundled locally. No CDN calls, no tracking.
- Fully translatable — every admin and frontend string is wrapped in WordPress i18n functions and ready for
.po/.motranslation files.
Instalación
Automatic Installation
- Log in to your WordPress admin panel.
- Navigate to Plugins Add New.
- Search for NoticeWave Popup.
- Click Install Now, then Activate.
Manual Installation
- Download the plugin
.zipfile. - Navigate to Plugins Add New Upload Plugin.
- Choose the
.zipfile and click Install Now. - Click Activate Plugin.
Getting Started
- After activation, find Announcements in the WordPress admin sidebar.
- Click Add New Announcement.
- Work through the 5 wizard steps: Setup, Schedule, Audience, Content, and Action.
- Set the post status to Published and make sure the Announcement status toggle (Step 1) is enabled.
- Visit your site — the popup will appear automatically.
Preguntas frecuentes
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How does priority work?
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Each announcement has a priority value from 1 to 100. When multiple announcements are active and scheduled for the same page, the one with the highest number is shown first. After a visitor dismisses it, the next-highest priority announcement will appear on their next visit (subject to the cookie duration setting).
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Can I show different announcements on different pages?
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Yes. In Step 3 (Audience), choose All Pages, Homepage Only, or Specific Pages and select exactly which pages should display the popup.
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How do I stop an announcement from showing permanently?
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Either set an End Date in Step 2 (Schedule) so it expires automatically, or toggle the Announcement status switch in Step 1 to disable it manually. Disabled announcements are never shown regardless of dates.
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The popup still shows after the end date — why?
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The expiration check runs client-side using the visitor’s local device time, so there is no server-round-trip delay. If the popup still appears, make sure your page caching plugin has been cleared after you saved the end date.
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Can visitors see the popup again after closing it?
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Yes. The Dismiss cookie duration setting (under Announcements Settings) controls how many days the popup is suppressed after a visitor closes it. Set it to
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Does the plugin support WhatsApp?
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Yes. In Step 5 (Action), select WhatsApp as the destination type, then choose your country flag and enter your local number. The plugin constructs a valid
wa.medeep-link automatically. On mobile devices it uses the nativewhatsapp://URI scheme so the app opens directly. -
Is there any tracking or third-party data sharing?
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No. The plugin makes no external HTTP requests. All assets — including the country flag library — are bundled locally. No data is sent to any third-party server.
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Is it compatible with page caching plugins?
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Yes. Because date/expiry logic is evaluated in the visitor’s browser (not on the server), the popup correctly respects its schedule even when WordPress serves a cached page.
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How do I translate the plugin?
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The plugin uses the text domain
noticewave-popup. Create.poand.mofiles inwp-content/languages/plugins/using a tool like Poedit. All admin and frontend strings are fully wrapped with WordPress i18n functions.
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Registro de cambios
1.2.0
- Added: Priority input field directly in the wizard Setup step.
- Added: Automated background migration to assign default priority to legacy announcements.
- Added: Four-state Status column in the admin list (Active, Inactive, Expired, Scheduled) with color-coded indicators.
- Fixed: Announcement title not saving correctly on some live server configurations (migrated title mapping to
wp_insert_post_datafilter). - Fixed: Quick-edit Priority field was reading post ID instead of stored priority value — causing silent data corruption on every quick-edit save.
- Fixed: Custom option cards (type, audience, CTA, timer) required multiple clicks in some browsers due to
display: noneon radio inputs; replaced with accessible visually-hidden technique. - Fixed: Auto-close timer cancellation race condition where manual close and timer expiry could both fire simultaneously.
- Fixed: Date boundary evaluation now uses local device timezone instead of UTC, preventing off-by-one-day errors for visitors in UTC+ timezones.
- Improvement: Converted all JavaScript from ES5
varto block-scopedconst/let. - Improvement: All external CDN assets (intl-tel-input) replaced with locally bundled copies.
- Improvement: All admin UI strings are now fully wrapped in WordPress i18n functions.
- Improvement: Added required WordPress.org plugin headers (
Requires at least,Tested up to,Requires PHP).
1.1.0
- Added: WhatsApp CTA support with country flag and dial-code selector (intl-tel-input).
- Added: Clickable banner mode — the banner image itself becomes the call-to-action link.
- Added: Auto-close timer (Off / 5 sec / 10 sec / 30 sec).
- Added: Text visibility toggles — independently show or hide title and description in the popup.
- Added: Page-specific cookie key — dismissing a popup on one page does not suppress it on other pages.
- Fixed: Accessibility — full keyboard navigation, ARIA dialog roles, focus trap, and focus restoration.
1.0.0
- Initial release.
- 5-step wizard for creating announcements.
- Scheduling with start and end dates.
- Display targeting (all pages, homepage, specific pages).
- Priority-based display ordering.
- Cookie-based dismiss suppression.