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10 Plus Best Hello Bar Alternative WordPress Plugins

Last Updated on June 20, 2017 by 58 Comments

As you know, Hello Bar is one of the popular eye-catching notification toolbar used by many sites all over the web, but because of its high price many bloggers are not using it; their free package provides only 25 clicks/month that is not even enough for a low traffic site. And the pricing starts at 4.95 per month for 100 clicks, where the pro package is worth $49 .95 per/month for up to 7,500 clicks. Obviously Hello Bar is not affordable for small Business owners and new bloggers.

Moreover, the installation process of Hello Bar is little time-consuming because Hello Bar is not a plugin, it requires a couple of steps to set-up.

However, these types of notification toolbar can be very beneficial for your business. It can be used to capture high quality leads, to guide your visitors to a specific sales page, to an eBook download page, can use as a subscription form, can use as a call-to-action button, etc. As you can see it has so many advantages.

In This article, I’m going to share some of the Premium and free WordPress Plugins that can be used as Alternative for Hello Bar.

Hello Bar Alternative WordPress plugins

 

WP Notification Bar

WP Notification BarWP Notification Bar is a newly developed Premium Hello Bar alternative WordPress Plugin by MyThemeShop. This Plugin has all the features that Hello Bar offer, and it just costs $29.

WP Notification Bar is best for custom notifications and alerts that displays a sleek message bar on your website. It can help you grow your email list, manage marketing promotions, increase your social media following or grow the audience for specific pages on your website.

As you can see above, I’m using this plugin on this Blog. Even though there are lots of similar free plugins, I brought this plugin because premium products usually comes with secured codes, support and regular updates.

Another feature I like about this plugin is that I can only display Bar on specific locations and completely turn off on certain posts or pages. Also this plugin offers high degree of customisation options from changing colours to animation. You can also use this plugin to collect emails and Split-testing!

Is it worth the money? Absolutely!

Please note: I get a small amount of commission if you buy this plugin using my affiliate link.

Features:

  • Unlimited Notification Bars
  • 18 Social Media Buttons
  • Multiple Notification Types
  • Custom HTML support
  • Multiple Color Schemes

If you’re buying this Plugin, here’s a special offer for you; You can use the below MyThemeShop Coupon Code to get 15% discount on this Plugin.

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Update: I just noticed that MyThemeShop recently launched the free version of this plugin. However, some features like Countdown Timer is missing. So try this free plugin if you’re short of budget.

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Thrive Leads

Thrive Leads

 

Thrive Leads is another Best Hello Bar Alternatives WordPress plugin. This plugin is recently developed by popular theme company called ThriveThemes.

This plugin offers some of the Advanced features to Get a massive conversion boost by showing relevant, highly targeted offers to your visitors based on posts, categories, tags and more. Build hyper-targeted and profitable lists.

If you’re particularly looking to grow your email list, then Thrive Leads might be the best available choice at the market.

Features:

  • Easy to Design forms
  • drag-and-drop editor
  • Advanced Targeting
  • A/B Testing Engine
  • Actionable Reporting & Insights
  • In-Line Forms
  • Screen Filler Overlay
  • Content Lock
  • ThriveBox (Popup Lightbox)
  • “Sticky” Ribbon
  • Content Lock
  • Multiple Choice Forms

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Thrive Content Builder

Thrive Content Builder is one of the Popular and Best Premium WYSIWYG Visual Editor WordPress Plugins. Even though this plugin is little different from Hello Bar or notification bar on top, this thing can do a lot more than you could ever imagine.

This Content Builder plugin offers different Landing pages, call-to action buttons, countdown timer, opt-in forms, etc. In other words, this plugin is a all-in-one must have plugin for WordPress.

 

Best Free and Premium WYSIWYG Visual Editor WordPress Plugins

Thrive Content Builder is used by over 38,942 People WorldWide. Thrive Content Builder provides you The Ultimate Click-to-Edit Front End Builder for Your WordPress Website.

I’ve brought this plugin some months ago and using it on this blog. This page is created using Thrive Content Builder plugin; see how amazing it looks.

drag and drop html visual editor with ckeditor and web page builder wysiwyg

 

Features of Thrive Content Builder

  • Styled Bullet Point Lists (like this one)
  • Customizable Content Boxes
  • Responsive Video Embeds
  • Visual HTML Table Builder
  • Feature Grids (with Images or Icons)
  • Content Tabs & Toggles
  • Responsive Google Maps Embeds
  • Star Ratings for Reviews
  • Dynamic Countdown Timers
  • Opt-in Forms
  • Easy Table of Contents Builder
  • Custom HTML & CSS

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Attention Grabber Plugin

Attention Grabber plugin is one of the best free alternative for Hello Bar, it has the same features as Hello Bar and it can be easily installed and integrated with your WordPress site.

Features:

  • You can customize the look of the bar however you want
  • Track the number of sign-ups or clicks you receive using Google Analytics
  • Responsively show or hide content to fit comfortable at the top user’s screen

 

WordPress Notification Bar

WordPress Notification Bar is another free plugin which can be used as alternative for Hello Bar. Similar to Attention Grabber, it is also can be easily installed and integrate with WordPress site.

Features:

  • Display sticky notification bar
  • Easy setup
  • call to action button with custom message
  • choose any color to match your site

 

Notification Bar plugin

It is also a similar plugin like the above one, A simple notification bar which allows you to add a notification bar on the top of your WordPress site.

Features:

  • Comes up with 5 color option
  • A Call-to-action link button
  • Hides automatically after 7 seconds
  • Use to redirect users to any specific page

Also Check: Top 6 Free WordPress Typography Plugins I Like

 

Sticky Notification Bar For WordPress

Sticky Notification Bar is also a cool plugin which displays a cool bar on top when the user scrolls down your page. you can use a navigation menu if you want to show a Navigation in the top bar, or you can show a constant message that you want to convey to your users.

Features:

  • Adds a cool sticky bar to your WordPress site which only shows when the user scrolls
  • option to set when to display
  • you can show social share icons on the bar
  • Easily manageable back-end settings
  • you can use a navigation menu if you want to show a Navigation
  • It allows you to add/upload your own logo if you want to show your logo on the bar
  • You can enable disable the Sticky notification bar for a specific post or page.
  • You can add a cool scroll to top arrow which smoothly brings the user to the top of the web page.
  • you can add the bar at the bottom or at the top.

Also Read: WordPress Plugins to Show Star Rating in Google Search Results

 

Fluid Notification Bar

Fluid Notification bar is another simple plugin which displays a nice responsive bar at the top. you can use this bar to display any messages to your visitors.

Features:

  • You can display specific post/page link
  • Display welcome message to your website visitors
  • You can display link to sales or something important
  • Use it as a call-to-action button

Also Check: Authy for WordPress : Alternative for Google Authenticator plugin

 

Notify Bar

This plugin adds a bar across the top of some or all pages on your WordPress website. The bar displays a headline and a paragraph which can used to display important announcements.

Features:

  • Customize bar color with a color picker
  • Optional jQuery slide-Up feature that allows the user to hide the bar
  • Display link of any sales page or important page
  • Display any popular post or page

 

CTA SKIN

CTA Skin

CTA Skin is a newly released Premium Call-to-Action WordPress plugin that’ll help you to Increase your CTRs and Conversions rates. Unlike other notification plugins, CTA Skin seems more eye-catching with its unique call-to-action features.

CTA Skin helps you to promote Affiliate products as well as your own products like ebooks. The single-site license costs only $17 with unlimited skins and all features.

Features:

  • A floating Call To Action Skin unlike any other ordinary bar you have ever seen.
  • Helps your important links stand out against link and banner blindness.
  • Increases click through-rates and conversions, meaning more cash in your pocket.
  • Endless Customization Options Included
  • A/B Testing And Analytics Dashboard 

 

Promo Bar by ZotaBox

Promo Bar setting

Promo Bar by ZotaBox is another Hello Bar type plugin that comes with similar features. The Best thing is about this plugin is its free.

Promo Bar easily lets you customize the color, text background, font size and height within the dashboard.

Please note that this post contains affiliate links, which means I earn a little commission if you purchase any products using my links. However, I only promote quality products which I use or familiar with. This is my personal list, only buy if you think it’s helpful for your blog.

 Conclusion

Above I have listed out some of the Premium and free Hello Bar Alternative WordPress Plugins. Among these nine plugins, WP Notification Bar is best, you can see it on this site. You can also try premium WP Mega Menu Plugin to Create beautiful, customized Mega Menus for your site.

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Comments

  1. Great List Adithya,

    Hellobar is a great Plugin launched by Neil Patel. and it is great to grab users attention. Other plugins are also great and useful. Thank you for sharing this with us.

    Nkhil 🙂

    Reply

  4. Hi,
    I am newbie on wp.I just installed WP for my one blog.And these are the very useful post about alternative WP plugins for hello bar thank you for sharing.

    Reply

  5. cool alternatives,

    For me I like to keep it very, very simple.
    I don’t what any distraction on my blog, no pop ups, shiny banners, nothing none-static.
    I have one banner on a black and white site that pops.

    perhaps down the line I’d incorporate some add ons though.

    thnx for the share, Adithya

    Akos

    Reply

    • Hi Akos,
      I don’t think these small static bars at the top will distract anyone! I agree pop-up and ads will be irritating. . .
      Thanks for reading! 🙂

      Reply

  6. Hello,

    Attention Grabber plugin is my favorite and great plugin which is absolutely alternate for hello bar. I’ve used for my tech blog.

    Thanks Mate!

    Reply

  7. I must thank you for this awesome post.

    I honestly didn’t know that there was so much floating bar available for WordPress blogs.

    Currently I am using one that I bought called Attention Grabber. I am loving it so much because it is so easy to use and customize. Can also track clicks.

    Thanks for sharing the others as well.

    Reply

  10. Hi,

    Thanks for the post.
    I must be confused. I see nothing on the Hello Bar site about payment plans.
    Does it just show up once you get 25 new subscribers in a month?
    And I do love that it integrates with MailChimp!!

    I have also purchased and used FooBar.

    Reply

  11. The hello bar / top navigation popup really helpful if you have to do any announcement or you have any product/services to promote.
    These 6 free alternatives are useful, and in long term increases quality of each product.

    Reply

  12. I totally agree that “hellobar” plugin can not be afforded by small businesses and new bloggers.
    The list of alternatives which you have mentioned are really good. I too think that attention seeker plugin will be great among all others.

    Anyway thank you for the list and moreover thank you for sharing this post.

    Reply

  14. That’s one really informative article, Adithya. You keep to the point, I really like that.
    I though you might be interested in checking our new service called GetSiteControl (http://getsitecontrol.com/) which offers different types of website widgets all managed easily from a single dashboard. We have alerts similar to the ones you have described too, but GetSiteControl set uncludes much more than that: a subscription and contact forms, follow and share social buttons. And we have developed a WordPress plugin to make installation easier for WordPress users. It would be great if you could find time to check it out.

    Reply

  16. Nice article and I would like to contribute our product ChatNox LiveChat. We also have a built-in StickyBar (What we call) that is bundled with our Live Chat Software.

    Just once piece of code to paste and you can have both LiveChat and the StickyBar on your website. You can also turn either one off. StickyBar is free for upto 5000 contacts each month.

    More Information : https://www.chatnox.com/features/sticky-contact-bar-features.html

    We also have a WordPress plugin.

    Thank you
    Peter

    Note : I work for ChatNox

    Reply

  19. Hi Adithya,

    Your reviews are excellent and I have been wanting to buy the hello bar for awhile now. I decided to read some reviews on an alternative solution as I know many of my own clients don’t want to spend big dollars and I like to use what I promote!

    So I am going to buy the WP Notification Bar on your recommendation (and through your link…I cleared cookies so you should get a commission in a few moments.)

    Thank you again for a thorough review on the possible alternatives to a great little plugin!

    Have a great day,

    Susan

    Reply

  22. Hi Adithya, this is a very useful blog. You may want to check out our free promo bar (and other very useful on-site marketing tools) at http://www.zotabox.com.

    All our onsite marketing tools are high quality, completely customizable and easy to use. I would appreciate your opinions and suggestions.

    Thank you very much for your time.

    Reply

    • Hi Adithya,

      Have you had an opportunity to look at our suite of website marketing tools that include 2 alternatives to the Hello bar as well as pop-ups and other original tools to help boost store owner sales? I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Half of our tools are completely free. Thank you for your consideration.

      Reply

  24. Just to let you know, I didn’t get a 50% discount as you promised—for the WP Notification Bar Pro plugin. Instead, I paid $29.00 (at a $10.00 discount). I clicked to copy the coupon code you provided. Upon doing that, I was directed to the main website of the plugin. Not the actual plugin page. I had to do a search on the website to locate the plugin page.

    After finding the correct page, I decided to purchase the plugin, but an option wasn’t given to me at checkout nor anywhere else to use your 50% off coupon code.

    You may want to update your post so as not to mislead people into believing they are going to get a 50% discount that either doesn’t appear to be true or is no longer available.

    The plugin does look promising, however, and is a cheaper alternative to the Hello Bar. For that, I am thankful to have found this blog post.

    Reply

    • Hi Chris,

      I’m very sorry for the inconvenience caused with Coupon code discount. . . MyThemeShop currently disabled all the coupons except one; here’s the email screenshot that I received from them: Screenshot

      Currently I’ve updated the post with working coupon code and I apologize for the inconvenience.

      Thanks for reading! 🙂

      Reply

  25. Hey Adithya,

    helpful Post. I will try the WP Bar after I am done with my workout 🙂

    Could you tell me what plugin you use that shows the subscribe field on the bottom and the About me box bellow it?

    Reply

  26. We really thank you for this post. But we would like you indicate please which one of this plugins do you recommend because it’s not easy to make a test all of them. We try a lot of free versions but they do not much our need enough.

    Reply

  27. Hi Adithya,
    Nice listing, but there is another free tool that offers more than what Hellobar is offering, and main problem with hellobar is their “H” appears over the screen when connections are bit slow.

    tool Im using is Optingun https://optingun.com

    here are some of the key features that I prefer it for

    #1 Scheduling forms to display between a period of time or from a scheduled time
    #2 count-down timers on the forms, and closing the form once the timer goes off
    #3 subscribing using facebook, google accounts, so visitors dont need to type name email, its fast and friction-free, sweet thing is we dont have to create facebook/google apps to use this features, it runs out of the box
    #4 no branding/links/logos on forms for free accounts

    and all the other regular features that any other product is offering

    Thanks for the wonderful post

    Reply

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