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South African Covid-19 Banner

Description

This plugin makes it easy for South African WordPress sites to add the Covid-19 banner as required by the South African government. This is to make sure that a legitimate source of information is known.

There is a widget that can be used in sidebars and a shortcode that can be used pretty much anywhere else.

If you want a feature added or find a bug, pop an issue here: https://github.com/seagyn/south-african-covid-19-banner/issues

Thank you to zeorin for the original banner snippet.

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/south-african-covid-19-banner directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Go to the Appearance->Widgets if your theme supports it or use [south-african-covid-19-banner] anywhere.

Reviews

April 28, 2020 1 reply
Thus far, the plugin has worked for most use cases. I would however recommend the following: Allowing links (website, hotline, WhatsApp) to open in a new/blank tab. Whilst most responsible businesses have no problem displaying the banner and directing traffic to the website and contact numbers; they also don’t want to lose their active visitors. Either allowing for custom color options for links in the banner or forcing the COVID-19 site color scheme (“!important”). I have found a few situations where the theme styling affected the links (white links on white background) and needed to add custom CSS. Other than the above, I believe that this plugin provides one of the easiest ways to to fulfill legal requirements and share factual information regarding COVID-19 in South Africa.
March 31, 2020
If you run a South African based site and simply wish to add a banner that adds a link to valued information on the matter this does so perfectly. @seagyn definitely builds quality and keen to see his other plugins after experiencing this one.
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Contributors & Developers

“South African Covid-19 Banner” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

0.2.0

  • Added full page settings.

0.1.1

  • Initial release