Notices

The announcements you write in WordPress, shown to the members who use your app.

Before you start

Plugin	Ultimate Member - Notices
Endpoint group	Notices
Plan	Every plan

Add it to your app

Notices has two surfaces, and the zone you drop it into decides which one you get.

1. Drag Notices into the Background zone for the ambient banner. It sits above the bottom bar on every screen, and the navigation stays usable underneath it.
2. Drag Notices onto a navigation bar or into the side drawer for the list screen — every notice aimed at the member, including the ones they have already closed.

Place it in both zones to get both. They share one set of settings.

Settings

Setting	What it does	Default
Title, Description	Shown at the top of the list screen	Empty
Banner position	Which end of the screen the banner sits at	Bottom
Notices in the banner	How many to stack at once, 1–3	1
Use each notice’s own colours	Draw a notice in the colours it was given in WordPress	On
Show the icon	Draw an icon on notices that have one	On
The button dismisses the notice	Tapping a notice’s button also marks it read	On
Keep notices they have read	List dismissed notices, dimmed	On
Notices per page	How many the list loads at a time, 1–50	20
Restrictions	Which roles see the tab	Everyone

Under Appearance you also get the notice card — border, corners, padding and margin — and the title and body typography. The card is used by the banner and by each row of the list, so a notice looks the same wherever it appears.

Your website decides the rest. Who a notice reaches, what it says and what colours it carries are set per notice under Ultimate Member → Notices, and the app follows them.

What your members see

The notices screen, with the ones already read kept at the bottom

A notice as a banner, with the screen underneath it still usable

What your site’s settings change

Two of the extension’s own settings behave differently in an app, because they describe a website.

Page rules are ignored. The allowed-URL lists and the home, posts and pages switches describe addresses an app does not have, so every notice aimed at a member reaches them wherever they are.

Show in footer still counts. A notice with it turned off is one you placed on a single page with a shortcode, so the app lists it on the Notices screen but never raises it as a banner.

Dismissing works in both directions. A notice closed in the app is closed on your website too, because it is written to the same list your site’s own close button writes to. Only the Flush action on the notice itself clears that list.

Signed-out readers see the notices you target at logged-out visitors. Their dismissals are remembered on the device rather than on your site, since there is no account to record them against.

When it does not work

Symptom	Cause	Fix
The screen is empty or shows an error	The Notices group is off	Memberside → REST API — switch it on. See Enable the endpoints you need
The card is greyed out	UM - Notices is inactive	Activate it
The banner never appears	Every notice is dismissed, or none is set to show in the footer	Check the notice under Ultimate Member → Notices, and use Flush to clear who has read it
A notice looks plain in the app	It has a text colour but no background colour	Set both, or neither — a light text colour on the app’s own background would be unreadable
Both a banner and the completion gate are showing	Profile completion covers the app until it is finished	Expected. The gate comes first; the banner is there when they get past it