Scott Bolinger

The Popup Zen Box is a cleaner, simpler way to collect emails with a popup.
It looks great, works great, and stays out of the way of your site visitors.
Integrate your email provider, choose where to show it, customize the colors, and publish. Done!
No complex settings or 3rd party SaaS dependencies.
Features
<ul>
<li>Customize the text, image, and colors</li>
<li>Choose where it displays – posts, pages, taxonomies, etc.</li>
<li>Integrate your email provider: MailChimp, ConvertKit, MailPoet 3, Drip, Active Campaign, or send to your email address</li>
</ul>
Why Popup Zen?
Popup Zen is clean, fast, and simple. It’s also non-intrusive.
Obnoxious popups may have a good opt-in rate, but they could be damaging your brand. Popup Zen is a new way to get high quality leads without pissing off your site visitors.
<ul>
<li>Simply collect emails</li>
<li>Minimalist design, easy to use</li>
<li>Ultra-lightweight codebase</li>
</ul>
We built Popup Zen because we just couldn’t bring ourselves to put that horrible popup in front of our site visitors. We wanted something that represented our brand better.
Instead of damaging your brand just to get a higher opt-in rate, Popup Zen believes in building trust.
Popup Zen gets high-quality leads by asking permission before displaying a popup. This builds trust with your site visitors, and keeps your brand image intact.
What it won’t do
<ul>
<li>Create obnoxious spinning and shaking animations</li>
<li>Choose from 100 different designs</li>
<li>Create insanely complex rules for how to display it</li>
<li>Block the screen without permission</li>
</ul>
Learn more at <a href="https://getpopupzen.com" rel="nofollow ugc">getpopupzen.com</a>
Developers can contribute on <a href="https://github.com/scottopolis/popup-zen" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>

Popup Zen – Small, Simple, Lightweight Email Optin

I like the philosophy : very simple and efficient. You won’t find all the options of some other plugins of this type but you may need something not complicated.

Clean and simple

I've used a number of popup plugins and they always seem overly complicated. Popup Zen wasn't like that at all. I installed it, connected my mailchimp account and had a pop-up created in under 5 minutes.

Dead. Simple.

Popup Zen just became my new favorite popup tool. Thanks, Scott!

5 Minute Setup

I had to use some CSS-adjustments with custom classes. For example, there is no spot to properly show some privacy information, so I used a custom class in to content area to display this small text.
I also had problems with the image: When I deactivated "do not crop", it wouldn't display. (Maybe something with lazyload?) With cropping disabled the banner looks kind of awful, so I used CSS to cover that up.

works well after some adjustments

This plugin got me a 5% improvement on my GTMetrix score. That's a huge bump. The lightweight scripts and clean CSS delivered and compiled into the site was a major advantage.

Previously, I had configured the standard Mailchimp popup on the MC site and integrated using the MC4WP plugin. It was loading 2-5 remote scripts, remote images, and remote CSS which created extra HTTP requests and added anywhere from 300-500k to a page load.

This plugin eliminated the remote script loading lag, allowed scripts to be combined, served from our Cloudflare cache ... 

BOTTOM LINE: it's a must have if you want a modern popup solution that is unobtrusive to your clients visually and in terms of site performance.

p.s. I would love to see an option to alter the amount of time that the thank you message is shown after someone submits their email!

perfect, lightweight, improved GTMetrix score for Mailchimp

A WordPress popup that is ultra lightweight, simple to use, and small.

Brian Mutende

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Noptin is a lightweight Newsletter Plugin For WordPress. 
★★★★★
Noptin allows you to:-
<ul>
<li>Create unlimited newsletter subscription forms.</li>
<li>Add your optin forms anywhere on your website using a shortcode.</li>
<li>Display your optin forms in a popup or lightbox.</li>
<li>Add unlimited newsletter subscription widgets on any widget areas.</li>
<li>Collect unlimited newsletter subscribers.</li>
<li>Send your email subscribers one-off newsletters.</li>
<li>Automatically notify your subscribers everytime you publish a new blog post so that they can keep coming back to your website.</li>
</ul>
The best part is that you are able to do all this without leaving your WordPress dashboard. If you are worried about email deliverability, you can install any SMTP plugin of your choice and Noptin will automatically use it to send your newsletters. No configuration needed!
Noptin works with WooCommerce out of the box to help you automate your WooCommerce powered store. It is also multisite compatible.
<h4>Getting Email Subscribers</h4>
If you’re migrating from another newsletter service or plugin, start by <a href="https://noptin.com/guide/getting-email-subscribers/importing-subscribers/?utm_source=wp-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">importing your existing newsletter subscribers into Noptin</a>.
Next, start collecting new subscribers by:-
<ul>
<li><a href="https://noptin.com/guide/getting-email-subscribers/wordpress-registration-forms/?utm_source=wp-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Adding a newsletter subscription checkbox to your WordPress user registration forms.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://noptin.com/guide/getting-email-subscribers/wordpress-comment-forms/?utm_source=wp-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Add a newsletter subscription checkbox to your WordPress comment forms.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://noptin.com/guide/getting-email-subscribers/woocommerce-checkout/?utm_source=wp-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Collecting newsletter subscribers on your WooCommerce checkout pages.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://noptin.com/guide/getting-email-subscribers/edd-checkout/?utm_source=wp-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Collecting newsletter subscribers on your EDD checkout pages.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://noptin.com/guide/getting-email-subscribers/ninja-forms/?utm_source=wp-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Using Ninja Forms to create a newsletter subscription form.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://noptin.com/guide/getting-email-subscribers/gravity-forms/?utm_source=wp-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Using Gravity Forms to create a newsletter subscription form.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://noptin.com/guide/getting-email-subscribers/elementor-forms/?utm_source=wp-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Using Elementor to create a newsletter subscription form.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://noptin.com/guide/getting-email-subscribers/wpforms/?utm_source=wp-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Using WPForms to create a newsletter subscription form.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://noptin.com/guide/getting-email-subscribers/contact-form-7/?utm_source=wp-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Using Contact Form 7 forms to create a newsletter subscription form.</a></li>
</ul>
In addition to the integrations above, you can also create your own newsletter forms.
<iframe loading="lazy" title="Creating a WordPress Newsletter Sign-up Form Using the Free Noptin Forms Editor" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Uyah658bPUs?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<h4>Collect unlimited email subscribers</h4>
Noptin is so fast and can scale to thousands of subscribers without hurting your servers.
It’s built by marketers. As a result, we put most of our focus on optimizing for speed and the conversion rate. We offer several conversion rate optimization techniques out of the box.
For example, you can easily offer content upgrades and lead magnets with your email optin forms to gain more newsletter subscribers.
<h4>Increase your website traffic</h4>
Studies suggest that repeat website visitors are more likely to convert than first-time visitors. That is why Noptin makes it easy to notify your email subscribers every time you publish a new blog post.
This increases your website traffic as your newsletter subscribers login to read your new content.
Let users sign up for your newsletter using any of the following email opt-in form types:-
<h4>Embedded Email Opt-in Forms</h4>
Noptin allows you to embed an email opt-in form inside any post, page or custom post type. You can quickly create a form using our newsletter block or create one using our <a href="https://noptin.com/guide/opt-in-forms-editor/" rel="nofollow ugc">Opt-in Forms Editor</a> and embed it in your content using a shortcode.
<h4>Email Opt-in Widgets</h4>
Noptin ships with two newsletter optin widgets.
<h4>Content Upgrades</h4>
Noptin makes it easy to add content upgrades to your newsletter optin forms. You set the URL to your lead magnet as the redirect URL and new subscribers will be able to download your lead magnets after they subscribe.
<h4>Automated New Post Notifications</h4>
Increase traffic to your website by automatically emailing your newsletter subscribers every time you publish a new blog post.
<h4>One-Time Email Newsletters</h4>
You can also send beautiful newsletters from WordPress to all your subscribers anytime you like. There is no limit to the number of newsletter emails you can send.

Simple Newsletter Plugin – Noptin


This plugin is customizable thanks to templates and lots of filters, we can do some advanced stuffs with it. On admin side, it doesn't seem bloated and it fits nicely in Wordpress style.



It does miss a bit of developer oriented doc but the code is well organized.



It also miss few features here and there, but the dev is open to discussions on github.



thx! 👍


Simple and Customizable, Nice support

Great Plugin

Really useful

Last week I replaced the old newsletter plugin with this newsletter plugin. The plugin offers us exactly the features we need and can also be customized very nicely. Thank you very much.

A fast, GDPR-compliant newsletter plugin. Collect unlimited newsletter subscribers and send them newsletters or new post notifications. ★★★★★

Popup Zen – Small, Simple, Lightweight Email Optin vs Simple Newsletter Plugin – Noptin