Hello Popup
A lightweight and customizable popup plugin to engage visitors, highlight offers, and boost conversions with ease.
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Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Maintained • Last updated 173 days ago
Is Hello Popup abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 173 days ago).
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Description
Hello Popup is a modern, minimal, and powerful popup plugin for WordPress. Display announcements, CTAs, marketing banners, or custom messages anywhere on your site — with full control from an intuitive admin panel.
Whether you’re looking to increase engagement, promote offers, or guide users, Hello Popup helps you do it beautifully.
Features
🎯 General Features
– Enable or disable popup globally
– Custom delay before showing popup (ms)
– Set expiry duration to control reappearance
– Upload custom image for popup
– Customize title and message content
– Add CTA button with custom text, link, and color
– Supports shortcodes inside popup
📄 Page Targeting
– Select specific pages for popup display
– Home page selected by default
– Auto-popup will only display on selected pages
🚀 Auto Show & Manual Trigger
– Automatically display popup after page load delay
– Disable auto-popup when needed
– Trigger popup manually using .hp-show-popup-btn class on buttons or links
🔒 Popup Memory
– LocalStorage-based memory to prevent repeated popup during expiry time
– Respects expiry setting (in hours) before re-displaying
⚙️ Admin Panel
– User-friendly admin settings under “Hello Popup”
– AJAX-based save functionality (no page reload)
– Nonce validation for secure save operations
– Input sanitization and validation for all fields
✨ UI/UX
– Smooth fade-in and fade-out animation
– Fully responsive on all devices
– Popup closes on overlay or close (×) icon click
🌐 Translation Ready
– Supports localization via hello-popup text domain
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/hello-popupdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress admin screen. - Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” screen in WordPress.
- Go to “Hello Popup” in the WordPress admin menu to configure your settings.
Frequently Asked Questions
Go to “Hello Popup” settings and check the “Enable Popup” option.
Yes, enable the “Auto Popup on Page Load” toggle and set a delay time.
Yes, you can select specific pages from the admin settings panel where the popup should appear.
Yes! Go to Advanced Settings and add your custom CSS safely. The plugin supports live CSS input with validation.
It uses localStorage to remember if the user has closed the popup, based on the expiry duration you set.
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Changelog
1.0.2
- Enabled sticky Save button that appears on scroll-up
- Integrated
wp.codeEditorfor better custom CSS editing experience - Limited custom CSS input length to 10000 characters and added sanitization
- Improved settings panel responsiveness and layout inside
.hp-container
1.0.1
- include register_setting() sanitized type
- remove load_plugin_textdomain()
1.0.0
- Initial release with full popup settings, page targeting, shortcode support, and fade animations.




