Heraldly – Notification & Lead Capture Bar

Heraldly adds a notification bar to the top or bottom of your WordPress site in minutes. Announce a sale, show a shipping offer, count down to a launch, or collect email signups, all from a visual builder with a live preview, with no code and no theme changes.

Create as many bars as you need. Each bar has its own message, colors, button or signup form, countdown, animation and display rules, and you can see impressions, clicks and click-through rate for every bar on one dashboard.

Why Heraldly

• Visual builder with live preview. Every setting updates a preview of the bar inside wp-admin, including the countdown reaching zero, before anything appears on your live site.
• Lead capture built in. Replace the button with a signup form that collects email only, or name, email and phone. Leads are stored in your own database and can be exported to CSV at any time.
• Works with any theme. Bars are injected and positioned by Heraldly, so there is nothing to add to your theme files.
• Privacy-friendly by default. No visitor data leaves your site unless you deliberately switch on the optional external country lookup with your own API key.

Notification bar features

• Top or bottom position for each bar
• Sticky bar option: keep any top bar pinned while visitors scroll. Several sticky bars stack neatly in the order you choose
• Static text or rotating messages with fade, slide or typewriter effect
• Call-to-action button with custom text, link, “open in new tab”, border, rounded corners, shadow and hover colors
• Countdown timer with your choice of hiding the bar or freezing at 00:00 when it ends
• Entrance animations (slide, fade, bounce) and attention effects (pulse, shake) for the button
• Solid color or background image with an adjustable darkening overlay
• Optional highlighted text box inside the bar, and five content box sizes
• Close (X) button that remembers the visitor’s choice for the session
• Show on desktop, mobile or both

Lead capture and signup form

• Collect email, or name + email + phone
• Custom placeholders, button text and success message
• After submit: keep the bar visible or hide it after a delay you set
• Spam protection with a hidden honeypot field and per-visitor submission limit
• Leads screen in wp-admin with one-click CSV export

Display rules and targeting

• Show on all pages, the homepage only, or specific pages (and WooCommerce products)
• Schedule a bar with a start and end date and time in your site’s timezone
• Country targeting: show a bar only in, or hide it from, a list of countries. Reads the country from your CDN (for example Cloudflare) with no external requests. An optional ip-api.com Pro lookup with your own key is available for sites without a CDN
• Turn any bar on or off with one click

Analytics

• Impressions (counted once per visitor session) and clicks per bar
• Click-through rate shown on the Dashboard
• Duplicate a bar and compare results

Dashboard

• All bars in one list with status, impressions, clicks and CTR
• Drag and drop to reorder bars; the order controls which bar shows first and how sticky bars stack
• Duplicate, enable, disable or delete a bar without leaving the page

Use cases

• Sale and discount announcement bar
• Free shipping or minimum order bar for WooCommerce
• Product launch or event countdown bar
• Newsletter and email signup bar
• Site-wide alert or maintenance notice
• Welcome bar for first-time visitors
• Country-specific promotions

External services

This plugin can optionally connect to the ip-api.com Pro IP-geolocation API to find a visitor’s country for the “Country Targeting” display rule. It is off by default and only used when all of the following are true: the site owner has switched on “External Lookup” under Heraldly > Settings, entered their own ip-api.com Pro API key, at least one active bar uses Country Targeting, and the visitor’s request has no CDN country header.

When used, the plugin sends the visitor’s IP address and the site owner’s API key over HTTPS to https://pro.ip-api.com, and receives back a two-letter country code. The result is cached on the site for up to a week per IP address, so a returning visitor is not looked up again during that time. New lookups are limited to 30 per minute site-wide.

This service is provided by ip-api.com. Terms of service and privacy policy: https://members.ip-api.com/legal and https://ip-api.com/docs/legal

Privacy

Heraldly stores the name, email address and phone number that visitors type into a signup form, in your own WordPress database. It does not set tracking cookies. It uses the browser’s session storage to remember that a visitor closed a bar, and counts impressions and clicks per bar without storing any personal data. Suggested text for your privacy policy is provided under Settings > Privacy > Policy Guide.