Yes, I’m writing about the admin notices. I know some are already up to their ears with that and I’m on that boat. The admin area is – and should be – for the user. Any notices that appear need to be informational. Not a nag. With that being said, I know there are some that would like to promote or even encourage their users to leave a review. I’m for that but there is a time and a place.

The admin area isn’t one. Nor should it be.

I do think part of that is because there really is no proper function, or hook, for using those. [ There really should not be. ] But for the sake of experimentation I went and played around with a few things. This is what ensued:

The code

It is pretty quick and decently documented.

// because otherwise it will be a turd-nugget
add_action( 'admin_init', 'check_for_notice_dismiss' );
function check_for_notice_dismiss() {
	// we check if the setting is set, making sure that it does not return false
	if ( get_theme_mod( 'theme-notice' ) === false ) {
		// we add our action for the notice
		add_action( 'admin_notices', 'we_add_our_notice' );
		// super hackish only because there are some that aren't running 4.5 and
		// so they can't use wp_add_inline_script()
		add_action( 'admin_footer', 'our_jquery_action' );
		add_action( 'wp_ajax_our_jquery_dismiss', 'our_jquery_dismiss' );
	}
}

// callback for our admin notice
function we_add_our_notice() {
	// checking for our theme screen because we can
	if ( get_current_screen()->id !== 'themes' ){
		// get the message
		$string = __( 'How about you review our theme?', 'text-domain' );
		$html = '<div id="my-theme-notice" class="notice is-dismissible notice-info"><p>%s</p></div>';
		// the final outout of the notice
		printf( $html, $string );
	}
}

// hackish job so we don't have to enqueue an extra file
function our_jquery_action(){ ?>
<script>
jQuery( document ).on( 'click', '#my-theme-notice .notice-dismiss', function() {
	jQuery.ajax({
		url: ajaxurl,
		data: {
			action: 'our_jquery_dismiss'
		}
	})
})
</script>
<?php }

// callback function for our AJAX
function our_jquery_dismiss() {
	if ( defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) && DOING_AJAX ) {
		set_theme_mod( 'theme-notice', true );
	}
	die();
}

Really I only did test using a theme which does explain the use of get_theme_mod(). There is potential in creating some standard function in adding a dismissible notice.

Something along the lines of:

function wp_add_notice( $message, $dismiss = true, $type = '' ) {}

Or even as a class:

class WP_Notice {

	var dismiss = true;
	var types = array( 'info', 'error', 'updated', 'saved' );

	public function __construct( $message, $type, $dismiss ) {
		if ( !$message )
			return;
		// the rest of the code
	}

	private function render_message( $message, $classes ) {
		printf( '<div class="%s"><p>%s</p></div>', esc_attr( $classes ), esc_html( $message ) );
	}
}

I do think the class would be better suited for that but that could just be me. There you have it! Possible ideas to iterate over.