Outstanding Bar WordPress Plugin
Outstanding Bar allows you to easily collect emails in a way that your users won't find offensive.
Outstanding Bar is a simple plugin that adds a newsletter sign up bar to your site. It comes with 3 options to give you flexibility in how you display the bar which you can tweak in the settings.
Consistent
This option simply keeps your bar at the bottom. This is the default option.
Distraction free
This option allows you to collect email subscriptions without getting in your users way. Similar to how some sites will only show the navigation when the user scrolls up & hide when the user scrolls down, you can enable this option to do the same.
Surprise
This option makes Outstanding Bar slide up after the user has scrolled through 50% of the page. It can work well for blogs as it presents the email sign up option at the appropriate time, after the user has read some of your content, rather than asking them to sign up as soon as t
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Usage of Outstanding Bar over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 7 to 3 — down 4 (-57.1%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 3 | -1 |
| June 2024 | 4 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 4 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 4 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 4 | +0 |
| February 2024 | 4 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 4 | -1 |
| December 2023 | 5 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 5 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 5 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 5 | +0 |
| August 2023 | 5 | -2 |
| July 2023 | 7 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 7 | — |
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