This plugin enables you to have unblockable popups on your site. It gives you control over style, animation, where your popup will be displayed, frequency, and much more!
Latest News
01/05/2011: New Easy Popups Coming
08/04/2010: Cool Ryan Easy Popups Now On WordPress.org!
07/09/2010: Easy Popups Feature – The Visual Text Editor
07/08/2010: Are You Bugging Your Readers?
07/07/2010: Cool Ryan Easy Popups – “Isis”
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Features
Watch the video above for a video demonstration
5 Minute Setup
In just five minutes, you can have brilliant popups on your site.
24 Beautiful Popup Styles
A popup for every theme. With 24 different themes to choose from, you can be sure there is a popup that will match your site.
Animations
Draw extra attention to your popups with smooth animations. Choose between different opening and closing animations to increase exposure!
Choose Where Your Popup Is Displayed
Only want your popup in some areas on your site? You can select whether you want them displayed on your posts, pages, or your home page.
Visual Text Editor
Now, no more clunky HTML code to deal with on your popups. Using the WordPress built-in WYSIWYG editor, you can now just worry about what you want to say, and not how to display it.
Separate Your Code
WYSIWYG editor drive you up the walls when inserting code? Now keep your code separate with a distinct code box. Simply place code snippets in this box and everything is kept separate.
Stop Bugging Return Visitors
Don’t want your return visitors to see this box every time they go back? Don’t want your popup to show on every post people read? Now you can set how often a person sees your popup.
Stable and 3.0 Compatible
No more worrying whether or not the latest version of wordpress will break your plugin. Tested on multiple versions on WordPress with different configuration options, you can rest assured it will work right every time.
Installation
After you have downloaded your file, log into your WordPress Admin Section.
Go to Plugins-> Add New.
Go to the Upload Link.
Navigate to your file.
Click on the Upload Button.
After it is has installed, click on the Activation Link.
Enjoy!
Configuration
Popup Display
These are the main features of your popup. It is the text displays and other code that you want displayed to your visitors.
Title
The title is what will be displayed on the top of the popup.
Text
This is the main body of your popup. The main message will go here.
You can toggle the visual editor with the “Visual” and “HTML” buttons located above the box.
Extra Code
This box is used for any extra code you may want to include in your popup. This box is optional.
Example: Aweber code or video code can be placed in this box.
Note: External javascript files that dynamically load content are known to break this box. Please do not use this type of code in this box! (This is a known bug that is being worked on.)
Display Options
This shows where and how often the popup should be displayed.
Home Page
Whether or not to display the popup on the home page. Yes Or No.
Pages
Whether or not to display the popup on pages. Yes Or No.
Posts
Whether or not to display the popup on posts. Yes Or No.
Frequency
How often you want your popup to appear to your visitors. Increments are set to days.
Note: Setting this value to ’0′ disables this feature and popups are displayed every time the page is loaded.
Style Options
These are the visual options for your popup.
Popup Style
What visual appearance you want for your popup. There are over 24 to choose from.
Open Animation
What animation you want to show when the popup first appears. Setting it to ‘none’ disables this option.
Close Animation
Same as Open Animation
Blur Background
This gives the option of blurring the background to give your popup more focus. It also disables any background clicks until an action is taken on your popup.
Width
The width of your popup, in pixels.
Height
The height of your popup, in pixels.
Changelog
Version 1.0 – “Isis”
Named Isis, after the greek goddess of simplicity, Cool Ryan Easy Popups’ main focus is on ease of use from installation to implementation.
Troubleshooting Guide
You more than likely have a conflicting plugin that uses poor coding practices. They are manually inserting their JavaScript files instead of letting WordPress do it for them. When this happens, the plugin will break. Try deactivating all of your plugins and enabling them with Cool Ryan Easy Popups and see which ones conflict.
My plugin is set to a daily frequency and it shows up every time I load the page. Why?
If your blog resides on a subdomain (mysite.mydomain.com instead of www.mydomain.com) this has known to cause conflicts with cookies. There is no resolution at this time. Sorry.
Where Can I Get Support?
While this plugin is free to use and will always remain that way, no support is given with this plugin. You can always request premium support on the Services page. A standard per-hour charge applies.
I have installed it on 3.0.1 and dont see it.
Is this because of I’m logged into wp?
What are your plugin settings? Do you have the frequency timer above 0? If so, you need to clear your cookies and try it again.
does this plug-in work on wp 3.0.1?
I haven’t tested it yet, but I have checked the update and there should be no conflicts.
Yes it would be a nice feature. It’s such a grand looking popup display. Obviously I know what the normal usage of a popup is but I thought if one could click a link or graphic to activate the popup it could used as a message box or to display a FAQ page, etc. Please email me if you plan to add this as a feature. Thanks so much.
Will do. thanks!
Does not seem to display at all! Are you suppose to put a code or something please answer!
Do you have the setting to show on the home page, pages, or posts? Also, please submit a url so I can see and track down your problem. Thanks!
Hey Bro,
I tried this on one of my sites and couldn;t get it to configure right.
http://northdallaspaincenter.com/
in ie it shows bottom left
in firefox nothing
need delayed pop up settings too.
Let me know whats up
I do not have delayed popup settings yet. I will be putting that in a future version.
Also, I am not seeing my JS anywhere. Do you have settings enabled that allows for home page, pages, and posts? If not, that could be your problem. Also, if you have a page set as your home page, you need to enable pages to show the popup. Thanks!
I checked and it doesn’t seem like you have my plugin installed. Did you remove it?
Hey Ryan,
Haven’t tried the plugin yet, but I must say it looks quite awesome.
A quick question is there a way to have the popup activated by a user clicking on a text link or graphic? Was thinking about using it as a ”Click Here for More Info” type thing, this way the visitor would not have to leave the current page. Thanks.
I can do something like this in a future version if you would like.
Where is any demo?
No demo is currently available. I can get one together later though. Thanks for the suggestion.
Ryan,
The #1 feature that I would like added to this plugin, is the option to specify an exact Page or Post that this popup appears on. In other words, there are many instances where I only want a “discount” to appear after they have read the pitch. If the “discount” popup message appears on any old page, this would reduce the results dramatically.
Is this something that is possible to add?
Ben
This is something that can be added in future versions. Thanks for the input!
I have installed this on 2 different sites one 2.9 and one 3.o WP neither seem to work.
HELP
What is your website name? Did you download it a week ago? I had a bug that I fixed. Let me know so I can find out the problem for you.
Are there any other instructions? I’m having trouble with the width/height boxes. Are they in pixels? Also, it would be nice if there were a way to check to see what it looks like before publishing. I’m going to have to put it on an inactive site to figure out the configuration first.
Otherwise, it looks great. Very easy to install and set up, except for a few minor instructions needed.
Thanks,
Kalidasa
http://www.coolryan.com/plugins/cool-ryan-easy-popups/configuration/
This will let you know the configuration options available.
Also, I will look into the preview tool and see if others want it.
Thanks for the suggestions.