Add a Popup Trigger

A popup trigger is an event (such as a click or some length of time) that causes your popup to display.

In this article, you’ll learn how to add a new popup trigger that controls when your popup comes into view.

Before You Start #

How to find your popup triggers #

You can find your triggers in the  Popup Settings right under the popup content editor. See the screen capture below.

Begin with Creating or Editing a Popup #

To get to the popup triggers, you’ll need to create or edit a popup. You can skip ahead if you've already done this.

Create a Popup #

To create a popup, click  Popup Maker > Create Popup in your WordPress admin area.

Edit a Popup #

You can edit a popup from your WordPress admin area by following these steps:

1. Go to Popup Maker > All Popups.
2. Hover over the name of the popup you want to edit.
3. Click the name of the popup or click Edit.

A Quick Summary of Trigger Types #

Before you add a trigger, you should know there are a few types of triggers.

1. Click Open: Displays a popup on a click
2. Time Delay / Auto Open: Displays a popup after an amount of time
3. Form Submission: Displays a popup after you submit a form (perfect for saying thank you)
4. Exit Intent (premium): Displays a popup when you move your cursor off a post or page
5. Scroll (premium): Displays a popup when you scroll down a percentage of the page or when a specific element comes into view

Add a New Popup Trigger #

Now that you're either creating or editing a popup, you can add a popup trigger. Here's how to do that.

1. In the Popup Settings section under the popup editor, click the Triggers tab on the side menu.

2. Click  Add New Trigger.

3. Select the trigger type in the dropdown. Below, we selected a Click Open trigger.

4. If you only want the popup to show up once for each visitor, check the  Prevent popup from showing to visitor again using a cookie? checkbox. Then, select when to stop showing the popup in the Stop showing popup once visitor takes this action dropdown.

5. Click Add. 

If you checked the Prevent popup ... using a cookie setting, you'd see a new cookie entry appear below the Triggers section of the Popup Settings.

6. Choose the trigger settings you want depending on your trigger type.

See the following guides for the trigger settings of each free trigger type:

• Click Trigger Settings
• Time Delay Settings
• Form Submission Trigger Settings

Visit our popup triggers page for setup instructions for each of our premium triggers.

7. Click Add to finish adding the trigger. Afterward, you'll see the triggers and any cookies you added. Below is an example of a Time Delay / Auto Open trigger. The trigger creates a cookie called pum-15 that lasts for 1 month when you close the popup.

8. Click Publish if this is a new popup to save and publish your popup. Otherwise, click Update to save your popup settings.

What's Next? #

If you added a Time Delay / Auto Open trigger, you're good to go. Bring up a post or page on your site and your popup should automatically display.

if you added a Click Open trigger, you'll need to "hook up" a link or button on your site to your popup. Follow our Click Open trigger instructions in our Beginner's Guide.

If you added a Form Submission trigger, head over to our Form Submission help doc to complete your setup.

Check out our Beginner's Guide to Popup Triggers if you haven't yet.

Need to edit a popup trigger or cookie? Make sure you read the Other Actions section coming up next.

Need to troubleshoot your popup? Check out our beginner troubleshooting guide, visit our Resources page, or send us a help request.