Announcement bar

The Announcement Bar runs a thin strip across the very top of every page, above your header, for a short message that applies to the whole site — a closure notice, an opening-hours change, or a limited-time offer. You add it to your header, and it appears on every page at once.

The bar itself sets only the appearance. The message you display in it is written and scheduled separately.

Where the message comes from

The bar shows whatever message is currently live in your Announcements area; the wording, links, and scheduling are set there. In the block editor, a Manage Announcements → link takes you straight there.

Editing what the bar says is therefore a two-step task: set up the strip's look here, then write or update the message in Announcements.

Appearance

Two options control how the strip looks. Both sit on the block's Appearance tab, alongside the shared controls below.

Style sets how the message is presented:

• Static Bar — a fixed strip with the message held in place. This is the default.
• Scrolling Marquee — the message scrolls horizontally across the strip, useful for a longer line of text in a narrow space.

Border sets the edge that separates the strip from the header beneath it:

• None — no border.
• Bottom — a line along the bottom edge only. This is the default.
• All — a border around the whole strip.

Shared controls

This block has no Layout tab, so width, direction, and alignment don't apply. Its padding and margin start at 0.

• Spacing and padding — the top, bottom, left, and right padding and margin around the message, on the Padding tab.
• Background and overlay and colour scheme — the strip's background and text colours, on the Appearance tab.

Worked example

A theatre wants "Box office closed Mondays" running across the top of the site:

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