Banners

A zone is a named place with a shortcode name, a format, a size and a list of banners. Vendix offers four formats:

In the page. The zone sits in the content at a width (px, %, em, rem or vw) and an aspect ratio such as 728:90 or 16:9, or a fixed height, set separately for desktop, tablet and phone. The space stays free before the image or ad loads, so the page does not jump. An empty device takes the value of the next larger device.

Pop-up. A box in the middle of the screen or a full-screen layer. Focus stays inside while it is open, Escape closes it and focus returns to where it was.

Slide-in or half page. A corner box or a half-page panel on the start or end side, or a half page at the bottom.

Sticky bar. A bar fixed to the top or the bottom of the screen.

Pop-ups, slide-ins and bars have a close button and open after a delay you set, from 0 to 600 seconds. Choose how often they appear: on every page view, once per browser session or once every N days.

When a zone holds more than one banner, it rotates them:

• Random: one banner per page view.
• Random by weight: each banner gets a weight from 1 to 100.
• In turn: the next banner on each page view.
• Slider: all banners one after another, 2 to 60 seconds each, with previous, pause and next buttons. With reduced motion, the slider starts paused.

Images in a fixed space can fill it, with edges cut where needed, or show whole. A zone near the top of the page can load its images at once instead of lazily.

"How often" is remembered in the visitor's browser. When the browser blocks that storage, for example in some private windows, the zone shows every time.

Zones and banners both have their own rules, and a banner shows only where both allow it.

• Display rules: "Show on" (empty means every page) and "Do not show on". The choices are those of the Header & Footer Builder: entire site, front page, blog page, search results, 404 page, single and archive views of a content type, a chosen page, a category or tag, and the WooCommerce shop, product, cart, checkout and account pages. A matching "Do not show on" rule always wins.
• Devices: desktop, tablet and phone.
• Logged-in visitors: hide the zone or banner from logged-in users.
• Start and end time: each banner can have a start and an end in the site time zone, also on pages served from a full-page cache.

Visitor requests read one saved summary of the published zones and banners, built when they are saved, and the module writes nothing while visitors browse.

Shared corners and plain checkout. New A bottom banner bar, Floating Contact, the sticky add to cart bar, the store status message and the back to top button share the bottom corner without covering each other, on left-to-right and right-to-left pages. On a plain checkout of Vendix Theme, banners of broad rules stay out; banners set for WooCommerce Checkout or the checkout page still show.