# Announcement bar

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You can add an announcement bar to your online store to display important information about your store.

You can highlight the following information by adding an announcement bar:

* Any shipping delays or regions not accepting international shipments.
* Any new or updated policy pages.
* Any promotions are being offered at this time, such as sales or new gift cards.

### Add an announcement bar

<table><thead><tr><th width="287">Setting</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Home page only</td><td>Enable this checkbox to show this section in only home page.</td></tr><tr><td>Social media icons</td><td>Enable this checkbox to show social icons on desktop</td></tr><tr><td>Auto rotate between messages</td><td>Enable this checkbox to automatically rotate through the announcement bar text.</td></tr><tr><td>Change message every</td><td>Use the bar to set the auto-rotate time of the text. You can set a minimum of “3” seconds and a maximum of “9” seconds.</td></tr><tr><td>Country/region selector</td><td>By enabling this checkbox, you can see country/region selector in the announcement bar section.</td></tr><tr><td>Language selector</td><td>By enabling this checkbox, you can see Language selector in the announcement bar section.</td></tr><tr><td>Enable flag</td><td>Enable this checkbox to show the country flag.</td></tr><tr><td>Color scheme</td><td><p>The announcement bar section background color appears behind the text:</p><ul><li>Accent 1</li><li>Accent 2</li><li>Accent 3</li><li>Background 1</li><li>Background 2</li></ul></td></tr><tr><td>Mobile layout</td><td>Enable this checkbox to show announcement bar on mobile.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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These settings will allow you to do the following tasks:

* Change the text of the announcement bar section.
* Change the background and text color of your Announcement bar section.
* Add a link to your Announcement bar. No link will apply if the "Link" field is empty.

## Add an announcement&#x20;

Only one announcement bar section is available in the theme, but, there can be more than ten blocks in the announcement bar section with which you can add multiple announcement bars. Moreover, In the announcement bar section, you can only add announcement bar blocks.

<table><thead><tr><th width="272">Block</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Text</td><td>Enter text to display as a announcement bar text on the section.</td></tr><tr><td>Link</td><td>Enter link to the announcement bar text on the section.</td></tr><tr><td>Button</td><td><p><strong>Label</strong> </p><p>Enter text to display as a button text in the announcement bar section. </p><p></p><p><strong>Link</strong> Enter link to display as a announcement bar button link in the section.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

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