10 Awesome WordPress Popup Plugins
Whether you use WordPress for your business or even just as blog or hobby site, one thing remains true, getting people to opt in to your mailing list or newsletter is essential. From a business standpoint it gives you a closed market that you can promote to, and from both perspectives it allows you to give your followers targeted, quality information.
Using popup windows was once frowned on as a ploy used by marketers who were just out to grab your cash, but it has entered the mainstream, with large scale and legitimate business and website owners using popups to gather email addresses, ask for social network shares such as Facebook likes, or to promote the latest and greatest product/service.
For a long time I resisted popups, and still find that on some sites they can be annoying, but done right they are very effective! There have been case studies showing that the use of a carefully worded popup can increase mailing list sign up by a lot, often hundreds of percent, extreme cases showing a thousand percent increase in signups.
I have gathered, in my opinion, the best free and premium WordPress popup plugins for your viewing pleasure. I haven’t reviewed all of these on ApinaPress just yet, so if there are some you would like me to review in more details, just give me a shout in the comments!
OptinMonster
OptinMonster
A high quality premium optin plugin, with plenty of scope for creating variations. It\’s slick and easy to use.
Why not check out my full OptinMonster review?
Popup Dominator
Popup Domination
A very slick popup plugin which is very easy to use, it creates a lightbox style effect and is mainly aimed at gathering email addresses. One aspect I found pretty awesome, was the ability to have a video in your pop up!
Pippity
Pippity
An up and coming WordPress popup plugin, Pippity allows a great level of customisation including pre built templates, style customisation, targetting of post types and the all important A/B testing. It also supports about 20 systems, including the ever popular Aweber, as well as Mailchimp, Feedburner, etc.
Ninja Popups
Ninja Popups
From an Elite author over at CodeCanyon, Ninja Popups is a best seller with some really funky features. Aside from the standard popups, it allows video popups, as well as inline content sign up forms (not popups), and also social popups. A very well rounded plugin. One unique feature is to have a custom overlay when the popup appears so you can use that to reinforce your message.
Sugar Modal
Sugar Modal Windows
UPDATE: This plugin is no longer available 🙁
This is from one of my favourite plugin authors, Pippin Williamson, and while it isn\’t specifically aimed at gathering all those emails and likes, the plugin is so open that it allows you to put virtually anything into the popup. From basic text and images, to video, whatever you can add to a post it can have too. Perfect if you need something more informative rather than email grabbing.
Ad Plus List Building
Ad Plus List Building
If you need responsive popups, you should check this plugin out. Not only that but it has exit popups as well.
Social Traffic Pop
Social Traffic Pop
Sometimes you don\’t want or need to build a mailing list, but instead focus on getting your amazing content shared across social networks. That\’s exactly what this popup plugin helps you with.
WordPress Popup
WordPress PopUp
From the very talented folk over at WPMUdev, WordPress PopUp is a slick plugin giving you some great features at an even better price, FREE! It\’s can\’t hold up to some of the premium alternatives in terms of features, but will certainly get the job done.
Displet Pop
Displet Pop
A strangely named, but effective pop up plugin.
WP Subscribers
WPSubscribers
This plugin has a myriad of options, including the in your face pop ups or inline option forms; connect via Facebook; add to some or all posts; basic split testing and a whole heap more.
Optinskin
OptinSkin
My personal favourite, used on this site and many others, OptinSkin excels at split testing and has easy to customise forms or if you prefer lots of pre-built ones. Also has inline forms, and fade options. Why not check out my full OptinSkin review?
01/16/2014 @ 7:14 pm
Great collections. Thanks for it…
01/18/2014 @ 4:50 pm
I recommend WPSubscribers from the above list. I personally tried it. Money spent on that plugin is worth every penny
04/07/2014 @ 7:44 am
Hi
i need plugin which show popup up at the end of page saying (thanks you for reading the artical ) is there any pliugin which remove on scroll up with out disturbing the whole page .hlep me getting this.
thanks in advance.
04/07/2014 @ 7:49 am
None that I’m aware of. Most of these will add in a form at the end, but will not hide it on scroll up. Sounds to me like you might need a custom plugin or script to achieve what you are after.
05/28/2014 @ 1:27 pm
Not really a popup but it does what you ask for :
https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/slide-in/
08/05/2014 @ 11:04 am
Great collection! Thanks. I found Ad Plus List yet the best so far..
Cheers
08/29/2014 @ 7:36 pm
well i love wpmudev plugins those are amazing 🙂
10/30/2014 @ 3:13 am
We created Icegram to be the best plugin for not only popups but a whole lot more – different message types, targeting rules, addons…
And Icegram is free..
Would be great if you can do a review!
11/08/2014 @ 5:57 am
Hello,
It’s a pleasure for me if you want to check mine.. here is the repo page https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-popup-show/
Please feel free to give a suggestion for future improvement…
Thanks…
11/11/2014 @ 7:31 am
A nice list of wp popup plugin.. Please check this one too, may be you want to add it up into your list..! https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-popup-show
Best Regards…
12/08/2014 @ 9:37 pm
Hi. I would like to collect phone numbers from visitors. Which PopUp plugin do you can recommend?
Thanks for reply.
01/16/2015 @ 11:31 am
“WordPress PopUp” is a good option. Good conversion also. thanks
01/30/2015 @ 3:23 pm
Hi there!
I find good popup plugin and recomend it for you. You can find it from this site: http://supsystic.com/
02/16/2015 @ 3:54 am
This is a very good list. I recommend WordPress PopUp Wpmudev because I am using this plugin and getting good results. But, I didn’t try other plugins, may be other plugins in your list are more better than WordPress Popup.
03/19/2015 @ 5:24 am
Hello Dean,
I am looking for a popup that lets me show different popups in desktop and mobile version. For e.g. consider the following scenario
show popup_1 only to desktop users
and popup_2 only to mobile users.
Do you know of any popup plugin that can help me get this functionality?
Thanks,
Sakthi
03/25/2015 @ 11:58 am
Hey Sakthi,
The popup that can show pop1_up to desktop users and popup2 to mobile users is very well available in Icegram.
Icegram has some really flexible targeting rules that help you choose where your popups is displayed.You can select the device on which you would like to display your popup and get it to work as per your wishes. Check Icegram out you will definitely love it http://www.icegram.com
Regards,
Andrea
03/27/2015 @ 9:49 am
I want to show a popup, whenever I refresh the page. Which plugin do you suggest for me?
04/01/2015 @ 12:45 pm
Hi,
looking for an popup plugin which can create houndrads of popups for a customer reference page.
Can someone help me with that?
04/01/2015 @ 12:46 pm
I have a CSV file with all the data.
05/11/2015 @ 8:42 am
I feel Icegram is the best,i have tried out many different plugins and Icegram stands above all,its
the best plugin there is,Its an All-in-one: Popups, header / footer
bars, notifications, messengers which is absolutely free
check it out yourself
http://www.icegram.com