Add Announcement Bar

Add Announcement Bar is Elfsight's Announcement Bar widget: a strip across the top or bottom of a Squarespace site for offers, shipping notices, opening changes or launch news. It is an embeddable widget hosted on Elfsight's platform rather than native Squarespace code. In Elfsight's editor you pick from 19 templates, add text, icons, badges, images or even a short video, and attach a call to action button or link. The bar can sit at the top, the bottom or inline, static or sticky, with separate settings for desktop and mobile. Display rules restrict it to chosen pages, a scheduler starts and stops it on set dates, and you can add fields to capture email addresses from the bar itself.

Who it suits

Shops with rotating promotions, businesses that need different messages on different pages, and anyone who wants an announcement to switch itself off at the end of a campaign without a reminder in the diary. A free plan is available to start with.

One honest caveat

Squarespace has its own announcement bar under Marketing, free on every plan, and for a single site-wide line of text it is the better choice: no third-party script, no branding, no account to lapse. Elfsight's version is worth it for scheduling, page targeting, images and lead capture. Free-tier widgets carry Elfsight branding and monthly view limits, and the bar disappears if your account lapses.

Installation

Build the bar in Elfsight's editor, copy the embed code and paste it into Squarespace footer code injection so it appears site-wide, then use display rules to limit pages. Later edits in the editor update automatically.