TinyBar – Display notification bar, banner, announcement at the top or bottom of your website

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Display a notification bar, banner at the top or bottom of your website. Display amazing discount announcement and create urgency among site visitors.

⚠ Few reviews

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84 Health · B

Maintenance 100/100

Rating quality 76/100

Support 70/100

84 health vs 56 average across 16,377 Uncategorized plugins

90+

Active installs

≈97 estimated

11.2K

Total downloads

since 2019

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

-54%

119

Downloads · 30d

category median +18%

Directory ranking optimization

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How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

89 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100

WP compatibility 100/100

Rating quality 52/100

Listing tuning 100/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-54% vs prior 30d

7 Downloads · Aug 26

7Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

119

now · peak 368

119 30d downloads · Aug 26

11930d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

TinyBar · #17338 you Simple Banner · #773 Announcement Banner · #15183 Simple banner · #18212

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

1.3K per 1k installs · Aug 26

1.3Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated

from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

releases in the last 12 months

2mo ago

latest release · v2.3.3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.3.3 · 2mo ago2.3.2 · 7mo ago2.3.1 · 8mo ago2.3 · 1.6y ago2.2 · 1.8y ago2.1 · 3.0y ago2.0 · 3.1y ago1.9 · 3.4y ago1.8 · 3.6y ago1.7 · 3.9y ago1.6 · 4.3y ago1.5 · 4.5y ago1.4 · 5.1y ago1.3 · 6.2y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 87% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.3 87%

v2.2 13%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “90+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate

90–100 ≈97

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2020-01-19 · 1,385 observations

90 Installs · Aug 26

90Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from. A declining trend compresses what a buyer would pay.

Ratings · 2 reviews

Details

Version: 2.3.3
Last updated: 2mo ago
Added: 2019-02-16 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP: 5.8
Tested up to: 7.0.4
Requires PHP: 7.4

Changelog ↗Support forum ↗Reviews ↗Advanced stats ↗

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

Medium · 6.1 Freemius SDK <= 2.5.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get ↗

2023-07-18 CVE-2023-33999 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.0 Patched in 2.1

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

✓ Low memory footprint

✓ Low page-speed impact

✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP

✓ No PHP errors

✓ No JS errors

✓ Activates cleanly

✓ No resource errors

✓ No external HTTP errors

✓ Optimized database use

✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Japanese 2%

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

2026-04-20 100+ → 90+ down after 1 days in tier
2026-04-19 90+ → 100+ up after 3 days in tier
2026-04-16 100+ → 90+ down after 8 days in tier
2026-04-08 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
2026-04-07 100+ → 90+ down after 19 days in tier
2026-03-19 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
2026-03-18 100+ → 90+ down after 25 days in tier
2026-02-21 90+ → 100+ up after 24 days in tier

Competes with

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TinyBar – Display notification bar, banner, announcement at the top or bottom of your website: 90+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/tiny-bar