How to Build a Popup in Wordpress for Free

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Are you a Wordpress website owner who would like to collect email addresses, gather form data, and promote your products?

Using a popup on your WordPress website is one of the best ways of converting your visitors into leads.

With Popupsmart’s popup editor, you can create stunning popups without coding or designing knowledge, within 5 minutes. Additionally, using Popupsmart’s advanced segmentation system will help you reach the right people in your target audience.

Instant results of your popup campaigns can be tracked via the same smart editor so that you may make experimental changes to increase visitor engagement by checking them regularly.

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Why You Should Use Popupsmart for Wordpress

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Compatible with WordPress

Popupsmart smoothly integrates with your WordPress website with the Popupsmart plugin. You can show conversion-driven WordPress popups on your website with no trace of code or design-related errors.

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Advanced Targeting Systems & New Generation Designs

With over 100 attractive popup templates that you can fully customize, Popupsmart offers a better way of displaying WordPress popups on your website.

Build your popup in 5 minutes with pre-designed popup templates and bring more conversions.

New-generation designs are accompanied by advanced targeting options to make sure you get the best of your campaigns.

Convert more of your visitors with device-based targeting, geo-located targeting, traffic source targeting, exit-intent triggers, scroll triggers, and more.

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No Decrease in Website Speed

We care about our users’ website performance. That is why Popupsmart is designed not to disrupt your website load speed. How? Popupsmart works on your website with one-line JavaScript code which is only 41 KB!

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Customer Support in 5 Minutes

You can ask for assistance via live chat on our website and the customer success team will contact you in 5 minutes.

During working hours, contact requests are usually processed in 5 minutes. Out of the working hours, we will contact you in 2 hours at most.

You can contact us via our email [email protected].

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SEO & GDPR Compliance

Popupsmart’s popup designs are fully compliant with Google’s requirements. So, you can safely grow your website with SEO-friendly popups.

Moreover, you can easily comply with GDPR, CCPA rules, and e-Privacy regulations with Popupsmart’s ready-made cookie consent popups by asking your visitors’ permission.

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AWS Server

Popupsmart operates on the powerful and reliable AWS Server (Amazon Web Service). This is why, with 99.9% uptime, Popupsmart does not encounter any crashed server errors.

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Right Campaign Goals

Promote Your Products

You can display your on-demand products at the right time to the right customers with conversion-ready popups. Effortlessly reduce cart abandonment and increase sales by making targeted visitors take the desired action via smart targeting options.

Grow Your Email List

Popupsmart is the simplest and most effective solution to grow your email list in a short time. Display stunning email popups on your website and gather new high-quality subscribers.

Popupsmart’s advanced targeting and segmentation systems make it easier to target your visitors and increase your conversion rate.

You can offer giveaways or discount codes on your email popup to encourage even more visitors to subscribe to your email list.

Increase Phone Calls

You can increase your phone call traffic effortlessly by displaying Popupsmart’s phone call popups on your website. Popupsmart’s mobile-compliant popups help you convert traditional-minded customers into online shopping.

Simply enable instant calls, offer ‘call me back’ option, or present a WhatsApp chatbox to increase your traffic through beautifully designed popups.

Show Up Notifications

Popupsmart’s eye-catching notification popups allow you to easily notify your visitors. You can announce important dates, sales, events, and newly launched products via impressively designed popups.

Collect Form Submission

Encourage your visitors to provide data with Popupsmart’s form submission popups. You can make an incentive on your form submission popup such as a discount code to collect more customer information.

You may use the gather customer data to personalize user experience and thus increase conversion rates.

Comply Cookie Laws

You can simply ask your customers’ permission and avoid e-Privacy violation fines up to €20 M by presenting a law-compliant cookie consent popup on your website.

Popupsmart’s ready-made cookie consent popups enable you to comply with e-Privacy regulations and improve the trust relationship between you and your visitors.

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No-Code Popup Builder

You do not need to be a developer or designer to create attractive popups! Anyone can build eye-catching popups with Popupsmart because it does not require any coding knowledge.

The only code related step is pasting one-line embed code to your website’s template file which is quite simple.

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Free Popup Service Up to 5.000 Page-Views

Still not sure whether to choose Popupsmart as your popup builder service? Why not give it a try and create your WordPress popup now?

You can create popups for free until your website reaches 5K pageviews. Once your free trial is over, you can select a paid plan based on your needs.

Select an annual plan to save 2 months of a popup service fee!

Wordpress Popup FAQ

1. Can I create a free WordPress popup with Popupsmart?
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Yes, in fact, you can. Popupsmart offers a free trial allowing you to create a popup for free until your website hits 5.000 page-views. You can use your free popup chance to create a WordPress popup. Plus, you can always upgrade your plan for an unlimited popup experience.

2. How to add an email popup to WordPress?
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To grow Your Email List with Popupsmart, click “+ New Campaign.” Then you will access various fully customizable email popup templates.

Select one, customize its design and targeting, or create a new one. Once it’s done, click "Save" and "Publish".

3. Can I create a responsive YouTube video popup for WordPress via Popupsmart?
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Yes, absolutely! You can find the video popup template on the popup editor. Just select the template and make the required adjustments and your WordPress video popup will be ready to convert.

4. Is there exit intent popup WordPress on Popupsmart?
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Yes, Popupsmart has exit-intent among its many other targeting options. You can set up your WordPress popup to show up when visitors attempt to leave your website and win them back with an offer they cannot refuse!

5. Can I create a WordPress lightbox popup with Popupsmart?
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Totally! You can create a WordPress lightbox popup with Popupsmart along with other popup types such as full-screen popup, sidebar popup, and floating bar popup.

1. Can I create a free WordPress popup with Popupsmart?

Yes, in fact, you can. Popupsmart offers a free trial allowing you to create a popup for free until your website hits 5.000 page-views. You can use your free popup chance to create a WordPress popup. Plus, you can always upgrade your plan for an unlimited popup experience.

2. How to add an email popup to WordPress?

To grow Your Email List with Popupsmart, click “+ New Campaign.” Then you will access various fully customizable email popup templates.

Select one, customize its design and targeting, or create a new one. Once it’s done, click "Save" and "Publish".

3. Can I create a responsive YouTube video popup for WordPress via Popupsmart?

Yes, absolutely! You can find the video popup template on the popup editor. Just select the template and make the required adjustments and your WordPress video popup will be ready to convert.

4. Is there exit intent popup WordPress on Popupsmart?

Yes, Popupsmart has exit-intent among its many other targeting options. You can set up your WordPress popup to show up when visitors attempt to leave your website and win them back with an offer they cannot refuse!

5. Can I create a WordPress lightbox popup with Popupsmart?

Totally! You can create a WordPress lightbox popup with Popupsmart along with other popup types such as full-screen popup, sidebar popup, and floating bar popup.

How To Create A Popup With Popupsmart Plugin For WordPress

You can create your popup with a Popupsmart plugin for WordPress. This is a great way to connect your website to Popupsmart because it is also fast and easy. Let us show you how to add your Popupsmart plugin to WordPress:

Before starting, remember that you need to have Popupsmart and WordPress accounts.

1. Sign in to your Popupsmart account, click your account on the left button, and find the "Websites" button on the left.

Click Websites


2. After adding your website URL, click the "Unverified" button next to it.

Click website unverified button


3. Find the "WordPress" option from the tabs, and click "Go to WordPress App".

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4. Click on the "Download" button, and wait for the Popupsmart.zip file to be downloaded to your device.

Popupsmart wordpress plugin page


5. Then, you need to navigate to your WordPress dashboard and find Plugins from the left menu. Go to Plugins and click Add new next to it.

Wordpress panel add new plugin


6. You may upload the Popupsmart.zip file by clicking the "Upload New" button or simply search the Popupsmart plugin from the search bar.

Wordpress panel upload plugin


7. After installing the file, click the "Activate Plugin" button to continue.

Wordpress panel active plugin


8. Find "Popupsmart" below the Settings from the left menu.

Wordpress panel click popupsmart


9. You’ll land on the below page. Here, you can see the "Account ID". You’ll connect your Popupsmart account and WordPress by simply copying and pasting the Account ID you have on your Popupsmart dashboard.

Popupsmart wordpress plugin dashboard


10. Let’s go back to the Popupsmart dashboard. Click on "Account" on the left below your dashboard. And go to "Personal Data".

Click personal data button


11. Here you’ll find your Account ID. Copy the ID and paste it on your WordPress "Account ID".

Personal data page account id

Once you save it, you are done! You can now create your popup and enjoy the leads & conversions coming to your WordPress website.

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