The Popup Maker Show a popup action shows one of your Popup Maker popups to a user once a recipe’s triggers complete: a thank-you offer after a purchase, a next-step prompt after a course. This article explains how the action decides when the popup appears and how to set it up. It needs the Popup Maker plugin installed and active.
How Show a popup works
The action does not open the popup at the moment the recipe runs. Instead, when you save the action, Uncanny Automator adds a trigger to the popup’s settings in Popup Maker that links the popup to your recipe. From then on the popup stays hidden for everyone. When the recipe runs for a user, the popup is allowed to open for that user on the next page they load, once, and is hidden again until the recipe runs for them again. Visitors who are not logged in are recognized by their IP address.
Two things follow from this:
- Do not give the popup an auto-hide setting or a cookie in Popup Maker. Both decide on their own when the popup shows, which interferes with the action.
- The popup needs a page load after the triggers complete, so it cannot appear for events that finish without one, such as the results screen of a LearnDash quiz, which is updated by JavaScript in the page.
Show a popup after a recipe’s triggers
- Create the popup in Popup Maker. If you are new to the plugin, see the Popup Maker documentation.
- Open the recipe at Automator > Recipes, or create one from Automator > Add new recipe, and add the triggers that should show the popup; see Creating a recipe.
- Click the + at the end of the flow. In the picker, search for Popup Maker, select it, then select Show a popup. If Popup Maker is missing, the plugin is not installed or not active: Ready-to-use only hides integrations whose plugin is missing or switched off.
- In the Set up step, choose your popup in Popup. If you created the popup while the recipe was open and it is not listed, click Refresh options beside the field.
- Click Save. Saving links the popup to this recipe in Popup Maker. If you later duplicate the recipe, the copy is linked to the popup too.
- Make sure the trigger and the action are On, then switch Recipe on in the top bar.
Related: Creating a recipe, Managing actions, Recipe types: logged-in users and everyone
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