[Drupal] How to configure Hello Bar to your Drupal sites?

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A Hello Bar is a simple advertisement bar which provides a notification on the corresponding region in the page and to redirect to other pages. The main advantage of using Hello Bar in Drupal websites is to set and increase traffics for specific pages in your sites.

The below are the steps to configure Hello Bar module:

  • Download the HelloBar Solo library.
  • Extract library to /sites/all/libraries/ folder.
  • Download the Hello Bar module and put it in the modules folder.
  • Enable 'hellobar' View and hellobar' Block.
  • Create 'Hello Message' for your site from the content type-> Hello message

Check whether the following modules are enabled in the modules configurations.

  • Libraries API
  • Views
  • Features
  • Link
  • Jquery Colorpicker

The library file for the hello Bar is not available directly. For getting the Hello Bar work for the site using Drupal hello bar module, we need to buy the library for hello bar. The easiest way to create an account in the hellobar.com site and purchase a plan for the site.

Follow the below instructions to get a Hello Bar notifications for the site:

  • Purchase a plan for the site notifications in the hellobar.com site.
  • Just put the below script before the content body closing tag:
    
    script type="text/javascript" src="//my.hellobar.com/bd2d096805ce6a976514f3a394029758cee13389.js"
    
  • Provide the setting to show the notification type and traffic URLS for the site.