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An in-app announcement is the New Updates pop-up that appears inside your widget when you publish a changelog entry. Instead of waiting for users to open the changelog, the update comes to them: the pop-up shows the entry’s image, title, and a short preview, and clicking it opens the full entry. It is the most direct way to make sure people notice what you shipped. Announcements are driven entirely by your changelog. Each entry decides for itself whether it becomes an announcement, so you can loudly announce a headline feature while quietly logging a minor fix. A changelog In-app announcement shown as a New Updates pop-up on a live site

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Turn on an announcement for an entry

Announcements are set per entry, not from a global switch. You choose whether each changelog entry becomes a pop-up when you write it.
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Open the changelog entry

Create a new entry from the Changelog screen with New entry, or open an existing draft. For the full walkthrough of writing and publishing, see Create changelog entries.
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Enable In-app announcement

In the editor’s publish panel on the right, turn on In-app announcement. It sits alongside Notify subscribers (which sends an email) so you can decide, independently, how each update reaches your users.The In-app announcement toggle in the changelog entry editor's publish panel
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Publish the entry

An announcement only appears once the entry is published. Publish now, or schedule it for later, and the pop-up starts showing to users from that point.
In-app announcements are a plan feature with a monthly limit. Once you reach your plan’s announcement allowance, new entries stop showing as pop-ups until the limit resets. See Add-ons if you need more.

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How announcements behave

A few rules keep announcements helpful rather than noisy:
  • Recent entries only. An entry is announced only if it was published within the last 30 days. Older entries stay in the changelog but no longer pop up.
  • Shown once per user. Each user sees a given entry’s announcement one time. Reopening the widget will not show the same update again.
  • A short queue, newest first. If several entries qualify at once, the newest leads the pop-up and a few more are bundled with it, so users get a single tidy “New Updates” moment rather than a stream of pop-ups.
  • Not shown on top of other pop-ups. If another widget pop-up is already active, the announcement waits.
The New Updates pop-up is separate from the notifications inbox inside the widget. That inbox is controlled by the Notifications toggle in Settings → Widget. Announcements will still appear even if the inbox is turned off.

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Target an announcement with segments

If you set an Audience on a changelog entry, its in-app announcement follows the same targeting. This lets you announce a change only to the users it affects.
  • An entry left on All users is announced to everyone who qualifies.
  • An entry targeted at a user segment is announced only to signed-in users who match that segment. Users who are not signed in, or who do not fall into the segment, never see the pop-up.
Because segment membership is evaluated from a known user’s attributes, segmented announcements reach identified users only. Set the audience from the same Audience control you use when writing the entry, described in Create changelog entries.

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Hide announcements on specific pages

Some pages are the wrong place for a “New Updates” pop-up: a public marketing page, a signup or login screen, or a checkout flow where any interruption can cost you a conversion. You can suppress announcements on those pages while keeping the rest of the widget fully functional. To do this, define a settings object before the Sleekplan embed script loads on that page: 
<script>
  window.SLEEK_SETTINGS = { session: { skip_announcements: true } };
</script>
<!-- your existing Sleekplan embed script comes after this -->
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Add the setting before the embed script

Place the window.SLEEK_SETTINGS snippet above the Sleekplan script tag on the page. It must run before the widget loads, because the setting is read when the widget first starts.
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Repeat only where you want it

Add the snippet only to the pages where announcements should stay hidden. Pages without it keep showing announcements as usual. If several pages share a header or template, adding it there once covers them all.
This only hides the in-app announcement pop-up. The rest of the widget (feedback, roadmap, changelog, and the notifications inbox) keeps working normally on that page.

Create changelog entries

Write an entry, target a segment, and publish it as an announcement.

The changelog

Read the changelog list and manage every entry in your workspace.

Changelog settings

Configure how your changelog looks and behaves for users.

User segments

Build the audiences that decide who sees a targeted announcement.