Network messages / cookies notice
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Network Messages
Network messages is used to provide site visitors and users with helpful tips, promotion or news that can be displayed as customizable pop overs or as messages in the header or footer on the front end or inside the dashboard of all sites on your CampusPress network or on specific sites.
It can also be used to add all kinds of codes to different parts of sites as well as set up a cookie notice.
Activate Network Messages
To use you first need to network activate network messages as follows:
1. Go to Plugins > Plugin Management in the network admin dashboard
2. Click on Network Activate next to Network Messages.
3. You should now see a new Messages menu item in the network admin dashboard.
Add New Message
You add a new message as follows:
1. Go to Messages > Add New in the network admin dashboard.
2. Add your message.
3. Select your message style.
Options are to display as:
- Inline text in the Header, Bottom corner, Top bar or Footer bar.
- Top Bar – Floating or Footer Bar – Floating
- Pop-over
- Custom HTML/CSS/JS – used for to add all kinds of codes to different parts of sites such as Google Tag Manager (refer to usage examples below).
The color is displayed on or under the message.
Example of an inline message on the front end:
Example of an inline message in the dashboard:
4. Choose where you want to show the message.
Options include:
- Dashboard
- Front end
- Dashboard and Front end.
- Specific admin areas inside the dashboard.
5. Select “Block ability to dismiss the message” if you don’t want users and visitors to dismiss it.
6. Select which users see the message.
7. Select the priority of displaying the message.
- Used when more than one message is created for the same location.
8. Optional: Blog ID, Active Plugin and Active theme are used if you want to display the message on specific blog URLs only or when specific plugins or themes are activated. Email contact@campuspress.com if you need assistance setting up these options.
9. Select the icon you want displayed at the front of the message.
10. Select the Start and End date of when you want the message to appear.
11. Optional: CSS Styling is used to add your own styling to the message. Email contact@campuspress.com if you need assistance with styling.
12. Click Save Message.
How to Find Plugin and Theme Paths in WordPress
If you need to display a message across your network alerting users to a pending plugin or theme update, it can be helpful to restrict the message so it only appears on sites using the affected plugin and theme. To do this, you’ll need the correct plugin path and theme path. The steps below explain how to find this information.
Finding the Plugin Path
1. Go to any site on your network.
2. Navigate to Plugins > All.
3. Search for the plugin you need.
4. Once it appears, right-click the Activate or Deactivate button and copy the link.
Example link:
https://example.com/mysite/wp-admin/admin.php?page=pretty-plugins.php&action=deactivate&plugin=kadence-blocks%2Fkadence-blocks.php&_wpnonce=123456789
5. In that link, locate the text after &plugin= and before the next &.
Example:kadence-blocks%2Fkadence-blocks.php
6. Replace %2F with /.
Example:kadence-blocks/kadence-blocks.php
This is your plugin path. You can now use it in Active Plugins.
Finding the Theme Path
1. Go to Network Admin > Themes.
2. Search for the theme you need.
3. Right-click the Network Enable or Disable link and copy the link.
Example link:https://example.com/wp-admin/network/themes.php?action=enable&theme=anjirai&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=123456789
4. In that link, copy the text between &theme= and the next &.
Example:
anjirai
This is your theme name, which you can use in Network Messages.
Finding the Site ID
To enable or disable a plugin or theme for a specific site, you’ll also need the site ID.
1. Go to Sites > All Sites.
2. Search for the site and click Edit.
3. Look at the URL in your browser’s address bar.
Example:https://example.com/wp-admin/network/site-info.php?id=1234
- The number after id= is the site ID.
Example:1234
Manage Messages
Messages are managed in Messages > All Messages in the network admin dashboard.
Hovering your mouse over a message brings up two action link menu items.
- Edit: When you click on Edit it opens up the message in Edit mode where you change the content of a message or change the start/finish date of a message. Remember to “Select to reset dismiss status. This will make users see the updated version.” if you edit a message to adjust the information displayed before you click Save Message.
- Delete: used to remove a message.
Cookie Notice
You set up a cookie notice using Network Messages as follows:
1. Go to Messages > Add New in the network admin dashboard.
2. Add your message.
3. Select Footer Bar – Floating or Footer Bar and Front end.
