How can you tell that a blog or a website is successful? Obviously, some would say that it depends on the traffic, but actually, traffic alone is not everything. Often the goal for a website is to generate sales, increase subscription rates, and develop loyal readership. Internet marketers are more familiar to this principle than any others working online, and part of their success formula is the use of forceful and effective call to action which is oftentimes contained in a pop-up box.
Recently the use of technologies like jQuery have made it possible to create modal windows that are actually part of the existing page. This makes blocking them very hard when using Pop-up window blockers. Used wisely you can increase conversion, but do not push to hard. Worst case you risk loosing your loyal readers!
Creating your own pop-ups for your website is not an easy task. You need to have knowledge of programming to be able to generate the codes that define your intended pop-up. Fortunately, for WordPress websites, there are lots of easily configurable pop-up plugins that you can choose from to convey subscription invitation, download or sales links, announcements etc. Pop-ups actually are versatile, and can be used for other purposes. A common use is to ask for likes or tweet before a file can be downloaded. Using a WordPress Facebook Plugin may give you this functionality.
Here in this article, we are listing a number of useful pop-up plugins that you can choose from to use in your website. As you will find out, most of these items are free while few are premium. Either way, these plugins have varied designs and the applications fit for their intended purposes.
Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.
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Sugar Modal Windows for WordPress
Sugar Modal Windows provides an easy-to-use interface for creating Modal pop-up windows for your WordPress powered website. The Modal Windows are powered by slick jQuery transitions and are fully compatible with all modern browsers and IE 7 -9. Modal Windows created with this plugin can contain any kind of information, including text, audio, video, shortcodes, etc. Your options are limitless! With 13 configurable options for every modal, there are literally thousands of different modal windows you can create. Use them to show off privacy policies, banner ads, portfolio images/videos, miscellaneous information, additional details, and anything else!
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Widgetized Welcome Popup
Widgetized Welcome Popup is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to add a highly customizable widgetized popup box to your blog or website. This popup box appears for all new visitors or for everyone on defined website parts (configured by administrator). It can be used to introduce yourself to new visitors or to notify everyone about something important or interesting or whatever. The main advantage of this popup is that it contains widget areas, where you can place any widgets available in your WordPress dashboard. It also accepts shortodes. As an administrator you fully customize welcome popup box (size, colors, number of widget areas and other parameters).
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Foobar – WordPress Notification Bars
A WordPress plugin for adding great looking notification bars to your site.
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Social Traffic Pop for WordPress
Social Traffic Pop is finally here. Requested by tons of other Traffic Pop buyers, Social Traffic Pop combines 3 of the most powerful social media tools to make one of the best social media marketing tools ever. Social Traffic Pop builds on everything that made the original Facebook Traffic Pop such a hit and takes it to the next level. Make Google, Facebook, and Twitter your slave and become a social media slayer over night!
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All-in-One Social Popup
All-in-One Social Popup is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to add a highly customizable social popup box to your blog or website. It combines 7 different popups (on page load, on external link click, on copy content, on context menu, on scroll down, on idle, on click), which can be used separately or simultaneously without conflicts. Once raised, popup asks visitors to like webpage on Facebook, +1 on Google, share on Twitter or LinkedId. Popup box is configured through settings page. Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are in TOP10 most visited websites in the World. All together they have over 1.2 billions of registered users. Could you imagine more successful spots to promote your website? All-in-One Social Popup plugin will help to get more organic traffic from Google Search and add thousands of fans on Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter and LinkedIn. More fans is more traffic.
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Facebook Traffic Pop for WordPress
Tap into Facebook’s 600 million plus users now with the hottest Facebook traffic plugin. Facebook traffic pop is a new breed of ‘popups’ that will allow you to have your users like your pages, instead of trying to get them to click ads. More likes = more exposure = more traffic = more money!
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SocialPop: A Social Media Plugin for WordPress
The SocialPop WordPress plug-in gives you the ability to add social media sharing options to the Posts and Pages of your website. The display settings allow them to appear right after the content section of the page. You can also manually insert them wherever you like, including widget areas using the Manual Insert Settings option. You can also insert them into your templates and pages via PHP functions call or shortcode.
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WordPress Custom Popups
WP Custom Popups is a way of making sure that your site visitors get a message. Whether it is an announcement, advertisement, collection of information WP Custom Popups can help you do it. The popup messages are displayed as soon as the visitors opens the page.
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LePopup WordPress
Successful LePopup script of LeSeries collection is now available also in WordPress version! Clear and simple management, easy and reliable handling, this all comfortly in WordPress administration. Set up sessions, automatic show and close and many more, also upcoming features that will renew and boost your site like no other popup before! Simple way to be popupped!
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Scrolling down popup plugin
Scrolling down popup plugin create the popup window with drop in scrolling effect. With this plugin we can confirm that particular content on your page gets attention to user. To display important announcement, an advertisement, or a promotional offer we can use this plugin.
Onclick Popup
One easy way to send your visitors a welcome message, notice, or advertisement is to add this popup plugin to your site. WordPress on-click Popup plugin will create a popup message to your website. The popup will appear on text click so it is named on-click popup.
WP-Announcements
The WP-Announcements plugin is ideal for websites or blogs that would like to display a site wide announcement, featured post, important message, community notice, advertisement, survey form, email subscription form, emergency alert or anything you can publish in a post as a marquee or popup window using ShadowBox-JS or ThickBox.
Milat jQuery Automatic Popup
Only want your popup in some areas on your site? With this WordPress popup plugin You can select whether you want them displayed on your posts, pages, or your home page.
Pinoy Pop Up on Exit
This plugin is mainly for sales copy sites, opt-in(squeeze) pages, upsell offers page or any page that tries to bribe people to stay in the page to respond to an offer. If a visitor tries to exit your site(page/post) they will instead see a popup screen providing them with an incentive not to leave. This incentive could be a discount or a bonus if they choose not to leave and instead make a purchase. A working example of this script is at Publishing a Book and Paid Public Speaker.
WordPress Popup Scheduler
The WordPress Popup Scheduler plugin allow you to fully customize the way popup is shown on your blog. You can either place your message before the first post, or as a popup right in the middle of the screen. In addition, there is also the option to either show the popup in home page only or in every single page.
SuperSlider-Media-Pop
SuperSlider-Media-Pop adds numerous image enhancements to your admin panels. Displays all attached files to this post is post list view. It adds image sizes to the Upload/Insert image screen, adding image sizes to be inserted and adding to the image link field options. Insert any superslider image size and link to any image size. You can now insert a slide sized image and pop over a mid size image in your post. Adds thumbnails and attachments to your edit post / page list screens.
WP Super Popup
WP Super Popup makes you able to easily create and manage modal and unblockable popups for your WordPress blog. It is proved that a modal and graphically attractive popup (like the one generated by this plugin) have an high conversion! For example you can use it for creating subscription forms or to promote your product in a viral way. The popup content can be retrieved from an external URL or directly edited inline thanks to a WYSIWYG editor.
WordPress PopUp
One of the most effective ways to advertise your mailing list, special offer or simply to show ads is via javascript ‘pop over’ on your site.
MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup
This amazing WordPress popup plugin allows you to get your message across in an unblockable popup easily. You can choose to present your popup in a simple straightforward way, in a fading system or in a lightbox mode.
Tippy WordPress Plugin
This plugin allows users to create custom popups or tooltips in their posts. The style and behavior of the tooltip are highly configurable through CSS and through the WordPress dashboard.
Popup
Sometimes its useful to add a pop up to your website to show your ads, special announcement and for offers. Using this plug-in you can creates unblockable, dynamic and fully configurable popups for your blog. One easy way to send your visitors a welcome message, notice, or advertisement is to add a this popup plugin to your site. This popup ads are very effective advertising tools for your website since they wont get automatically blocked by popup blocking tool.
Easy Heads Up Bar
This plugin adds an easy to use notification bar to the top of your WordPress website with a linked call to action.
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I have used the first in a project and would recommend it…
We’re pleased you like it.
Nice collection thanks for these resources
Great collection, i did not know there are so many of them, thanks!
Very useful article, thanks for great collection
Great & very useful informations
I have been unsure about using popups on my blog site. Even though I’m desperate for more traffic and activity I don’t want it to look that way. The Simple Pop Up may work for me. Thanks!
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Great resource sections guys
This one is not quite a popup but more of a “slide-in”…nevertheless its a sweet new plugin totally worth checking out:
Tab Slide
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tab-slide/
I recommend the LePopup plugin if you need an advertisement alternative or high quality popup for all your needs.
great list ,this is what am looking for ,googing to try ” Facebook Traffic Pop”
Thanks for this information , I am very like it
you have helped too. thanks
Thanks!
Helped me a lot in selecting the right popup plugin!
thanks for great plugins
Thanks for the great compilation of plugins. This is exactly what I was looking for and is extremely helpful to have it all in one spot.
Please have at this as well
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-pop/
The basic version can support any static html contents and the premium version has support for referrer url based message display
Great- I liked the “WordPress PopUp” the idea is good but it’s giving a message in the dashboard that I need to install some other plugin to stay updated. Which is always annoying to me. A plugin should be individually work on it’s own. Otherwise the developer sucks.
Thank you for the great list you got here. I really like the idea of social traffic pop!
My site gets a ton of hits but my social media fan base is lacking. I’m considering adding a social media pop-up but don’t want to come off as spammy to my readers. Hmm…guess I’ll give it a go on a trial basis. Thanks for the info!
Thanks! very useful
Sir m using wordpress popup plugin bt m not able to add multiple popup on my page… plz suggest some solution..
Hi Devansh
There’s more than one plugin available – the one I get on my mind when I read your comment is WPSubscribers – http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/view/wpsubscribers – I’m not sure if you can find a free one – if you can please share it with us.
Kind regards
Andy
Why you don’t list a Jquery Popup Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-popup/?
Features:
Can display popup on home page only, pages only, single only
Can set Cookie to controll popup display once per day or always display
Can set width or height of popup
Can custom URL of popup
The author Url of this plugin please goto http://blog.casanova.vn/wordpress-jquery-popup-plugin/
More interesting, good job.
hi all…
i need light ,fast and pretty pop up…i just wanna show it in the first page and once 4 each user.
i want to include the law of the website and with an acceptable link and cancel.
i use wordpress – bodypress.
thx.
YOu should also let us know more about the plugins that would popup from the bottom when scrolling down
Going to give Sugar Modal a shot. Need something that pops up to give more information about a package or product. Seems like the website will be easier to use and navigate with some pop-ups that give more info rather than making the visitor go to another page… seems cumbersome that way. Thanks for the great list of pop ups.
hi all…
I need light ,fast and pretty pop up…I just wanna show it in the first page and once 4 each user.
I want to include the law of the website and with an acceptable link and cancel.
I couldn’t find a plugin that would display a popup when the visitor made an exit (i.e. closing tab or hitting the back button).
Any recommendations?
Awesome info and very useful! I will try some.
Hi,
I’ve seen many popups but strangely I’ve never seen the majority of these. And I will admit I like most of them. They have their own style and it will be easy to choice a type that fits the layout or theme a persons website be cause of their uniqueness.
Thanks for sharing!
Marc Bell
how to add the recommendation popup at the bottom of wordpress posts
nice plugin thnx for sharing this
hi this is our for example.
I need pop up with flash animation. Any idea ?
Which popup plugin would you say is closest to the WP Demon Popup Plugin?
(http://wp-demon.com)? It’s there, but it’s not available for sale.
I’m trying to create a landing page with a button and that button opens a popup that asks for name and email to get on a mailing list.
What is the best plugin for this?
Thanks in advance
Thanks, I have used the Onclick Popup plugin, although it has a bug, it’s ok for now, maybe an update will fix it.
I have read so many posts on the topic of the blogger
lovers except this article is truly a pleasant paragraph, keep it up.
Nice collection, this was helpful
Thanks for these helpful popup plugins. But i am really confused about which i will try first
Great list, thanks so much.
I guest All-in-One Social Popup is good to try, Thanks for share
this is great collection of premium plug in.. ,thanks
Really useful. I like Milat jQuery Automatic Popup.
Thanks for sharing.
WOW, thanks for the great list. I only can name a few of them at the top of my head.
Just want to share a new one to the popup plugin family, I think it deserves to be on the list:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bueno-gato-free-popup-creator/