Requirements
- Deferred appearance
- Partial appearance with option to make full appearance
- Ability to continue a dialogue within the popup
- Slide up from the bottom – allowing for a title
- Support mobile usage
Her dislikes
- In your face attention seeking
Plugins tried
Plugin name and description | Plugin links | Version, total downloads, last update, tested |
---|---|---|
tab-slide | No info available | |
SideOffer SideOffer is a sliding side tab designed to generate leads & increase conversions by displaying a highly visible call to action for your users | sideoffer home | 1.0.2 15,768 August 20, 2012 3.4.2 |
Popup domination
I decided to invest some money in the popup domination plugin. For the following reasons- It’s not too expensive
- It could be deployed quickly
- I could look at the code to see how it did certain things
Conclusion
If all you want to do is gather email addresses then this may be a reasonable solution. But it doesn’t satisfy her requirements to produce a popup that slides up from the bottom and offers other choices. Also, as the plugin name and marketing blurb suggests, it’s all about in your face attention seeking. We cancelled the order.tab-slide
Not bad, but the only really useful bit was the option to display the content of a specific post. It wasn’t possible to customize the tab’s label.sideoffer
Seemed to be too much work to make it do anything useful.My solution
I developed, from scratch, a plugin that I can extend over time. The initial version has two basic functions- Deferred popup in a fancybox
- Slide up
oik-popup is a WordPress plugin from oik-plugins.
Tel: 02392 410090
Email: herb@bobbingwide.com
- Display a slide up call to action.
- Build your email marketing list.
Tel: 02392 410090
Email: herb@bobbingwide.com