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Simple Popup Plugin

Description

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Use this plugin to easily create links to simple popup windows. It supports multiple popup links on posts/pages/widgets and window positioning/centering options.

NEW to 4.2 – Fixed issue of toolbar/scrollbar/location bar options not working correctly.

Screenshots

  • Screenshot of the options menu.

Installation

Installation for General Use

  1. Upload the whole simple-popup-plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
  3. In a post or page use the shortcode [popup url="http://www.popup-url.com"]LINK TEXT[/popup] to create a popup link.
  4. Go to the options page to adjust popup window dimensions and other options.

FAQ

  1. To create a popup link in a post or page use [popup url="http://www.popup-url.com"]Link Text Here[/popup].
  2. You adjust the dimensions of all popups in the options screen, or each individual popup using the width & height attributes within the shortcode, ie [popup url="http://www.popup-url.com"]LINK TEXT[/popup].
  3. If you would like to use the shortcode in a template file simply call it like so:

Reviews

Séptembor 3, 2016
Finally, a plugin that does what it says it does. Works well with my non-standard WP theme. Get a simple message to all or select pages when I'm down for maintenance. Haven't done any CSS with it but I'm sure that works well too judging by the design of the plugin.
Séptembor 3, 2016
This is an excellent plugin. Allowing the use of an image instead of link text creates endless possibilities for buttons to launch pop-up windows. Visit my website at www.4power.com to see how I launch my welcome video using this plugin.
Séptembor 3, 2016
Easy to modify and works fine! free version was enough for me.
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Contributors & Developers

“Simple Popup Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

2.0

  • Added scrollbar option.
  • Added widget for displaying links to popups in sidebar.
  • Added template tag to create popup links in theme templates.

3.0

  • Added support for multiple popups links.
  • Added window positioning options.
  • Removed widget (brought back in version 3.1)

3.1

  • Brought back widget by popular demand.

3.2

  • Widget upgraded to support multiple links and window centering option available – contributed by RichH

3.3

Added class ‘simple_popup_link’ to links for styling and fixed some bugs.

4.0

Added shortcode attributes for changing the dimensions of each popup window as needed. Also added the attribute ‘class’ to the shortcode for adding a custom class to the link if desired.

4.1

Some code fixes and cleanup to ensure compatibility with new WordPress versions.

4.2

Fixed issue of toolbar/scrollbar/location bar options not working correctly.

4.4

  • Fixed PHP7 depricated class constructor.
  • Fixed widget.
  • Cleaned up options screen.