Curly Alert Bar

Admin-controlled announcement bar for Curly Sprout sites, migrated from the Fluent Snippets alert bar. Content is managed in Alert Bar in the wp-admin sidebar and output via the [alert_bar_text] shortcode.

Requires Oxygen 6 (built a specific way)

This plugin controls the alert bar's content and visibility only. The bar itself must be built in Oxygen 6 as:

• An Oxygen element with class alert-bar (the visible bar, e.g. a Container at the top of the page).
• A close button inside it with class alert-bar-close.
• The [alert_bar_text] shortcode inside the element (in an Oxygen "Shortcode" element or a Code element) to render the admin's text.

Without those classes the plugin has nothing to show/hide.

What it does

• Admin page (top-level "Alert Bar"): enable/disable toggle + a tinyMCE editor (300-char cap, bold/italic/links only) with a live character counter. Gated on edit_pages, so Administrators, Editors, and the "Site Admin" role can all edit it.
• [alert_bar_text] shortcode: outputs the stored text (safe HTML, escaped).
• No-flash server-side hide: when disabled or the text is empty, a small inline style hides the .alert-bar element (display:none !important) so it never renders or flashes before JS runs.
• Front-end script (assets/js/alert-bar.js, enqueued): hides the .alert-bar element when disabled, when the text is empty, or when the visitor dismissed it this session (sessionStorage); wires up the close button.

Structure

curly-alert-bar/
├── curly-alert-bar.php              # Headers + PUC bootstrap
├── uninstall.php                    # Removes the two options on delete
├── assets/js/alert-bar.js           # Front-end visibility script (enqueued)
├── includes/
│   └── class-curly-alert-bar.php    # Admin page, settings, shortcode, enqueue
└── vendor/plugin-update-checker/    # YahnisElsts/plugin-update-checker v5.7

Installation

1. Upload to wp-content/plugins/ (or install the ZIP from the GitHub release).
2. Activate.
3. Alert Bar in the sidebar → enable + enter text → Save.
4. In Oxygen, add the bar element (class .alert-bar + a .alert-bar-close close button) and insert [alert_bar_text] inside it.

Updates

Distributed through GitHub Releases via plugin-update-checker (public repo — no tokens). Bump Version: in curly-alert-bar.php, then git tag v1.1.0 && git push origin v1.1.0. The Action builds and attaches the ZIP; installed sites show the update in wp-admin.

Replacing Fluent Snippets

If the site previously ran this as the Fluent 11-alert-bar.php snippet, deactivate/delete that snippet when activating the plugin so the front-end script and shortcode don't register twice.