Add popups to your site. Add links to pages/posts via a shortcode which will be opened in a popup browser window.
As of April 2026, Alligator Popup is a WordPress popup plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 45 reviews. It has been downloaded 71K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Downloads are down 12% this week. Top alternative: Popup Builder & Popup Maker for….
This plugin allows you to enter a shortcode to add links to pages/posts which will be opened in a popup window. The only options in Alligator popup are entered in the shortcode, so there is no admin page for this plugin.
Add a popup shortcode where you would like a link to appear within your post or page text. The shortcode has parameters for url, height and width and should be in the format:
[popup url="https://cubecolour.co.uk/wp" height="300" width="300" scrollbars="yes" alt="popup"]Link Text[/popup]
Include your own Link Text and values for the url the width & height of the popup, and the alt text fot the link.
If no values are entered for the alt text and the height and width, defaults of 400px are used for the width & height of the popup window.
Scrollbars are en…
I was quite surprised that my comments were still high on the first page of the support forum (usually meaning that the plugin is not downloaded very much), but even though it’s really fiddly to use and you need to work out a new workflow to cover a blog with over 400 posts, this works better than anything else out there!
My original question was concerning Google Analytics type links, that open in a shrunken window.
It’s a lot easier when you work out the components, width and height, then save them onto a notepad, and remember to ‘paste as plain text’, and copy the link address from the original link, then delete it when the popup is compiled.
Lots of these popup plugins can only be relied on to popup content from WordPress websites, but this one pops-up content from government websites, Wikipedia, and I even tried a couple of Google Maps links last night, all of which opened in shrunken popup windows.
Right then, better crack on with the rest of my 400 posts!
Just simply works. Thank you. And the sequel alligator menu popup was just what I needed to pop from a menu.
Does what it’s supposed to do, simply and reliably.
This is how plugins should be: Simple and just add an enhancement that seems natural. Some plugins seem larger than core. Good job.
After trying some other plugins, this is the the easiest and most effective.
Thanks!
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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