Adding an alert graphic for school / business closings is a great way to alert your website visitors that there are active closings in the area. The alert graphic automatically will appear wherever you place the shortcode only when there are active closings in the School Closings system.  When a user clicks on the graphic alert, it will redirect them to the URL you specify for the Closings page.

For instance, you may want to place the graphic alert shortcode in the header of your website. That way, whenever there are closings, the alert graphic will display on every page of your website and gives users an easy access to see the closings.

Closings Alert Shortcode Format

The format of the shortcode is as follows:

There are three parameters you need to add to the base WPB CLOSING shortcode:

• Type=Alert (this tells the system that this is the alert version of the closings shortcode))
• Image (this would be the alert graphic)
• URL (where users will be redirected to when they click the graphic.  This would be your closings page)

Alert Graphic On your Website

When at least one closing is active, the shortcode will display your graphic.  As soon as there are no active closings, the alert graphic is automatically removed.