Do You Want to Create a Popup Form On your WordPress Site?
By using a WordPress popup form, you can get way more leads and customers by making it even easier to contact you online. So in this article, we’ll show you how to easily create a WordPress popup form for your website with Wp Forms Plug-in and Pop-up Maker Plug-in.
Why Should You Use A Pop-up Form On WordPress?
All Small Business Owners Should have contact forms in General but also in a WordPress Popup. That’s because it will give your readers a fast way to communicate with you if desired without leaving the website.
Plus, you can also use a WordPress popup form for:
- Feedback — Gather feedback by asking for comments.
- Contact Info — Get more details about your readers by getting their contact and personal information.
- Subscription — Build your email newsletter list by making it easy to subscribe with the click of a link.
So now that you know why you want to use a WordPress popup form, let’s jump into exactly how to make one!
Steps in Creating your WordPress Popup Form:
How do you create a WordPress Popup? in this easy guide, we will show you step by step
1. Download the Necessary Plug-ins for your Popup Form:
To get started, you’ll need to install and activate 2 plugins.
First, you’ll need Wp Forms Plug-in and second, you will need Popup Maker. Both of these plug-ins are free.
Click on the blue download button to download Popup Maker.
2: Create a Simple Contact Form for your WordPress Popup Form:
Next, you’ll want to create the form that you want to put into your WordPress popup form. To create your form, go to WPForms » Add New and select a template. For this example, we’ll use a simple contact form. It’s a good idea to keep things simple with WordPress popup forms, so you can maximize your form conversion rates.
Once the form loads, it will have everything you need to get started including:
- First Name
- Last Name
- Comment
You can drag and drop any additional fields you want from the left side to the preview window. You can also remove a field by clicking on it and selecting the red trash icon that appears on the right.
Once you’re done with creating your form, you need to click on the Save button to store your changes. Your contact form is now ready to go!
And now that we have a form ready, let’s move on to the next step and create a popup in WordPress.
3: Create a Popup in Popup Maker WordPress Plugin:
Awesome, your plugins are installed and activated. Next, we’ll go into the Popup Maker plugin to create your popup. This Free PlugIn lets you make popups from scratch, easily.
Head to your WordPress dashboard and go to Popup Maker » Add Popup, and you’ll see the popup editing screen appear.
On this screen, you’ll want to enter a name for your popup. Plus, you can also enter an optional display title as we did in this example. Your visitors will be able to see this optional display title.
You’ll see a unique shortcode appear which tells that popup which forms to use.
Let’s customize a few of the popup settings by scrolling down and starting with Triggers.
Triggers tell your popup when to open. Click on the blue Add New Trigger button.
On the trigger option window that appears, open the dropdown and select Time Delay/Auto Open. This will trigger the popup to open after your website visitors have been on the page for a set amount of time.
You can set the time for anything you’d like, but we suggest starting with 5 seconds (5,000 milliseconds). When you’re ready, click the Add button to continue.
By default, this popup will show on every page of your WordPress website and to everyone on all devices. You can adjust these settings to target specific people, devices, places (like a post or page), and more under Targeting. In fact, for more advanced settings, check out the Popup Maker documentation.
Next, let’s spruce up the look of your popup by clicking on Display under the popup settings.
Now, adjust any other settings you’d like and when you’re ready, let’s go ahead and publish your form.
Scroll up on the page to the top and click on the Publish button to make your WordPress popup form live.
And there you have it! You can now preview your WordPress popup form to make sure it looks exactly like you want it to, and adjust the settings accordingly.
To make more contact form popups, you can repeat this process and customize the settings and display rules to appear on different posts or pages, etc.
You can also head back to the edit page to keep an eye on the Analytics if you want to know how many people have viewed your WordPress popup form.
Also, if you’ve set up Google Analytics on your website, you can track Popup Maker through custom event tracking.
And don’t forget, you can set up your WordPress popup form to connect directly with your email marketing service to make it even easier to organize and automatically reach out to your new contacts.
In Conclusion
Alright, you’re all set. We hope this article helped you to learn how to create a WordPress contact form popup in WordPress.
To Your Success
Juan Villar