Popup Block

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Crossed into this band 7 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ Pat K

   4.0y ago

   I needed a simple popup plugin for emergency notifications and was looking for something that integrates nicely with the new block editor. I found a bunch that were clunky and / or bloated. This is perfect (well almost perfect). It has all the settings I need (sets an optional cookie with adjustable lifespan, it has intuitive appearance controls, and it’s SO easy to create and modify popups on a per-page / post basis. The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is that the min-width setting doesn’t allow sufficient control to make this play nicely on mobile devices. Easy to fix with a bit of CSS – but adding width & max-width settings would IMO make this much better. Example, in child theme I added: .abs-popup .modal-content { width: 90% !important; max-width: 400px !important; } Thanks for sharing your plugin! pk

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2. ★★★★★ Knut Sparhell

   5.5y ago

   Works fine in Chrome and Edge, but can’t get Exit Intent to reveal the box using Firefox.

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3. ★★★★★ foraker

   5.7y ago

   Does exactly what I wanted it and what it says to do. Two things that maybe are useful for others: 1. I wanted to call a JS function on close. So I added my stopVideos call (if it is there) to the frontend.js file of the plugin: {key:”closeModal”,value:function(){ if(typeof stopVideos==’function’){stopVideos();} If there is any better way, let me now (same for 2). 2. The pink logo svg in the editor was way too huge for me. I don’t know the reason, but to dodge it I wrote the following rule into the corresponding editor CSS file of my theme: .popup-preview svg {display: none;}

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4. ★★★★★ hambell

   5.7y ago

   Lightweight block does exactly as advertised. Can activate by anchor link and a few other ways such as: page exit, timer, scroll location. Make sure to put it at the top of editor blocks, otherwise it does a few funky things when displaying.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8.1

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-04-14 800+ → 700+ down after 2 days in tier
2. 2026-04-12 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-04-11 800+ → 700+ down after 2 days in tier
4. 2026-04-09 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2026-04-08 800+ → 700+ down after 4 days in tier
6. 2026-04-04 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2026-04-03 800+ → 700+ down after 3 days in tier
8. 2026-03-31 700+ → 800+ up after 4 days in tier

Competes with

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Popup Block: 700+ active installs, 4.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/popup-block