About this plugin
Running a sale means saying the same thing in several places at once: a banner at the top of the page, a call to action in the article, a page listing everything on offer, and a marker on the thumbnails so readers spot it from the archive.
Nefudaya lets you enter that once, as a campaign, and switch on whichever of the four outputs you want.
The four outputs
- Notification bar — a sticky bar at the top of matching posts. Clicking it scrolls to the CTA on the same page, or opens the sale.
- CTA box — sale name, catchphrase, biggest discount, a two-banner slider, coupon cards you tap to copy, and the button. Place it with a shortcode or have it appended to the post body automatically.
- Sale list — a page of the products on offer, with section headings, prices and discounts, coupons, stock notes, per-row periods and links to your own review articles.
- Stamp — a ribbon, badge or banner laid over the featured image, in post lists and on the post itself.
One campaign, one period
A campaign has one start and one end. Everything it feeds appears and disappears together. Times follow your site’s timezone setting, and the visibility is re-checked in the browser as well, so the schedule still works on pages served from a cache.
Choosing where it appears
By the shortcode, by category, by tag, by a custom taxonomy, by a keyword in the title or body, by specific post IDs, or everywhere.
Sixteen colour schemes
Each scheme carries a dark face for the bar and CTA and a light face for the sale list, so the two read as one design without being the same colour. A section heading in the list can switch scheme for the products underneath it.
The name
Nefudaya (値札屋) is Japanese for “price-tag shop”.
Notes and disclosures
- No external requests. The plugin does not send anything to, or load code from, outside servers.
- Product images and stamp images are hotlinked. Images shown in the sale list, and the image you can use as a stamp, are loaded straight from the URLs you enter; they are not copied into your Media Library. Make sure you are allowed to use and hotlink them. You can also pick an image from your own Media Library instead, in which case it is served from your site like any other upload.
- Affiliate links. Links you enter are output with rel="nofollow sponsored noopener noreferrer" and open in a new tab.
- Scheduled content is in the page source. A sale that has not started yet (or has already ended) is still present in the HTML, hidden with display:none, so that JavaScript can reveal it at the right moment even on a cached page. Do not put anything in a scheduled campaign that has to stay secret until it starts.
- Review article lookup searches your own site’s posts by product name. Nothing is sent anywhere.
- SWELL is a trademark of LOOS, Inc. and is not affiliated with this plugin. Its thumbnail markup is simply among the defaults the stamp looks for, and the list is editable.