How to Create Popup in WordPress With Popup Maker Step By Step Tutorial

Seeking a no-hustle free method of adding popups to your WordPress website or blog? You’re in the right place! In this article, I am going to demonstrate how to make up popups in WordPress with the help of the free WordPress plugin called Up Pop Maker. You see it through to the end, it is not rocket science! At the end, you will have a more entertaining and interactive site but to the advantage of your visitors.

A few words about Popup Maker

The free WordPress popup maker allows users to create and implement popups on their WordPress websites. It gives you the chance to develop different forms of popups, such as plain information popups to the complicated form popups. The popularity of the WordPress users with the usage of the UAE-based tool is also considerable as it has become rated as 5 stars on the whole and has more than 700,000+ users globally

Create popups in WordPress with Popup Maker

To begin with, we shall begin with the installation of Popup Maker. Let us go to the page of WordPress Plugins.

Log in to your WordPress site to access the POPUP MAKER configuration settings

To be able to access your WordPress dashboard, follow the following steps:

1. To access your area of administration in WordPress, you are expected to open your web browser and navigate to the following URL by keying the following address in the address bar
   And the address is: http://www.your-site-address.com/wp-admin(You should replace your-site-address.com with the address of your site)

2. When you open the login-page the second thing you will notice is the availing of the fields where you are expected to key in your username and password. Enter the user name and password that you created during the installation of WordPress.

3. Once you have entered your logins, press the button called the Log In.

Upon the successful provision of the log in details, you will be taken to the WordPress editors control panel where all aspects and options of your web site can be accessed.

It is time to get into the instructions on the Popup Maker and start making popups!

Installing Popup Maker in WordPress

Press the plane Download and open the ZIP file of the plugin in another program on your computer.

Go to Plugins Section:

• Mac Click on Plugins, in the left-side bar on the dashboard.

• Then, click on Add New.

• The next one is the option of Upload Plugin, which is at the top of the page of the Add Plugins. Click on it.

• An option of file upload will occur. Click the Choose File button.

• Select ZIP file which you downloaded in Popup Maker plug in and the computer.

• Upon choosing the file, press the button Install now.

• The WordPress will automatically be requested to install and upload the plugin.

 

 

 

 

• Once installed, a success message shall be shown and the next option Activate Plugin.

• Install the Popup Maker and install the Popup Maker on your site by clicking on the Activate Plugin button.

Configuring Popup Maker

The Popup Maker menu will be revealed in your WordPress administration menu after being installed and enabled. This is where you should hover and then you should click on settings in case you want to configure the plug-in.

In the Popup Maker settings page there will be 5 tabs that will have:

-the tab of the general: in it, you are going to see the general settings of the plugin, i.e., the option of the default theme by which you will be working with your popups, and the settings concerning the usage of the Gutenberg block. It is very easy and simple to create our own theme in Popup Maker. The developers have ensured that they have given priority to the user accessibility. We also have an editor that has live preview and this makes it even easier.

Among the customization options of the theme, it is easy to choose the fonts and their color, background color, and the text container color.

I am also in control of the border and could determine the level of its visibility. More so, the same customization can be applied to the Close button.

Through this tab, you are able to enable or disable the monitoring of the use of your popups. Do not forget to press the Save button to save your settings.

Create your first popup with Popup Maker

At this point, the menu will hover the “Popup Maker” menu, but to get the popup editor, you will need to click on the menu item which is labeled; “Add Popup”.

The Popup Maker makes it easy to create a popup because of the editor, which resembles the WordPress content editor. In this editor you will be required to fill in the identification name of the popup, the title which will appear when a visitor views it, and contents in the popup.

A bit below you will have the settings of the popup which you are about to create. One will have the following options:

• Triggers: This is the part that holds the parameters that tell when the popup would be opened. Click on the button “Add New Trigger and then in the list,  select the one you want.

In this case I will select Time Delay / Automatic opening with 500ms delay before the pop up appears:

You should then set the cookies of the popup to define the duration of time the choice made by the user would be saved.

• Target: Gives you the choice of when the popup will be displayed and on what type of device.

Display: Provides several display options of the popup, including its size, animations and other options that you can make.

• Close: Allows you to edit the text on the button giving users the opportunity to close the popup. This tab also allows you to set the time after which the close button can appear and also you will find the options of submitting forms and other closing modes that could be used with your popup.

Advanced: Allows you to turn off the accessibility features and automatic re-triggering of pop-ups after attendance of a non-Ajax form. This is to avoid cases of this popup reopening in the visitor after he or she has already filled the form.

Once you have finished what you desire to do on your settings, you can save and publish your popup by clicking the button that is depicted as Publish. That’s it! And now we need only look at the way it is to the visitor.

Code For Image Redirect

<a href=”https://example.com” target=”_blank”>
<img class=”aligncenter wp-image-5186 size-full” src=”https:your-image-url.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image.jpg” alt=”” width=”1080″ height=”1080″ />
</a>

My Final Thoughts on Popup Maker

Having tested Popup Maker on our WordPress education site, I could say that it is nearly the all-the-beauty of the functioning of popups and their creation. The plugin is not complicated and has diverse customization capabilities. The only indisputed feature is that certain of the more desirable extensions, such as AJAX Login Modals, are premium. Nevertheless, the simplicity variant gives you potential to do so much and has a lot of choice on creativity.

In case you wish to use a more professional and highly developed popup. You could find the entire guide in it. Working together is always preferred, and I want to know about your concerns and questions, ask them in the video comments where I would make sure to answer with the answers!

If you want to create a more advanced, professional popup, I have a full tutorial available on my YouTube channel, Ammar Manzar. You can check out the complete guide there. If you have any issues or questions, feel free to ask in the video comments, and I’ll make sure to respond with the answers!