🤩 Make popups & optin forms to get more email newsletter subscribers, leads, and sales - #1 most popular popup builder plugin! 🚀
- Installs
- 1+ million
- Rating
- 4.3 (821)
- Updated
- 3 months ago
Advanced Popups
Display high-converting newsletter popups, a cookie notice, or a notification with the light-weight yet feature-rich plugin.
- Active installs
- 60,000+
- #688 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 733.5K
- 733,491
- Downloads, 30 days
- 6.2K
- 1.5K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.0 / 5
- 9 reviews
- Last updated
- 4 months ago
- Jul 11, 2026
- Version
- 1.2.4
- 21 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | July 11, 2026Updated in the last year |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.0.8Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 4.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.4 or newer |
| First published | October 31, 2019 |
| Support, last two months | 0 of 1 threads resolved (0%) |
Reviews
4.0 / 5 from 9 reviews
| 5 stars | 6 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 1 |
| 3 stars | 0 |
| 2 stars | 0 |
| 1 star | 2 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Advanced Popups is a lightweight yet powerful WordPress popup plugin designed for maximum conversion. Create beautiful, targeted popups to grow your email list, display important announcements, show cookie notices, or promote special offers.
Key Features:
- Multiple Popup Types – Choose between Content Box (perfect for opt-ins), Notification Box (ideal for announcements), or Notification Bar (great for cookie notices)
- Strategic Placements – Position your popups where they’ll perform best – top, bottom, center, corners, or sides of the screen
- Smart Triggers – Display popups at the perfect moment with multiple trigger options:
- Time delay
- Page viewed
- Exit intent (catch visitors before they leave)
- Scroll position (target engaged readers)
- Manual launch via button click
- Accept agreement (for compliance notices)
- Precise Targeting – Show popups exactly where they matter:
- Specific pages, posts, or custom post types
- Taxonomy pages (categories, tags)
- Front page, archives, or search results
- Based on user login status (guest vs. logged-in)
- Visitor-Friendly Controls – Respect your visitors with:
- Frequency limits (avoid popup fatigue)
- Mobile-specific settings
- Multiple close options (overlay click, ESC key)
- Beautiful Animations – Choose from fade, slide, zoom, or combined effects for entrance and exit
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
How do I create a popup?
After activating the plugin, you will see a new menu item called ‘Popups’ in your WordPress admin. Click on it and then click ‘Add New’ to create your first popup.
Can I control where the popup appears?
Yes, Advanced Popups offers precise targeting options. You can choose to display popups on specific pages, posts, or custom post types. You can also target taxonomy pages, front page, archives, or search results. Additionally, you can show popups based on the user’s login status.
How can I trigger the popup?
The plugin provides multiple trigger options including time delay, page viewed, exit intent, scroll position, manual launch via button click, and accept agreement for compliance notices.
Is it possible to limit how often a visitor sees the popup?
Absolutely. Advanced Popups includes frequency limits to help avoid popup fatigue among your visitors.
Are the popups mobile-friendly?
Yes, the plugin includes mobile-specific settings to ensure that your popups look great and function well on all devices.
What kind of animations can I use for the popups?
You can choose from a variety of animations for both the entrance and exit of the popups, including fade, slide, zoom, or combined effects.
Latest changelog entry
- Fixed the Notification Text and button fields not appearing in the Classic Editor for Notification Box and Notification Bar popup types.
- Fixed a security issue with the notification button link.
Screenshots
Demo Example 
Creating a new popup 
Popup settings and options 
Display conditions for the popup
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.