Build flexible popups and modal windows with multiple popup types, triggers, and display controls.
As of April 2026, Popup Box is a WordPress modal plugin with 50K+ active installations and a 4.6/5 rating from 79 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.4M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 9% this week. Support resolution rate: 78%. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
Popup Box is a flexible WordPress Popup plugin that helps you create different types of popups and modal windows with rich customization options and advanced display control.
It’s built for website owners who need a reliable popup builder, not just a marketing-only tool.
With Popup Box, you can design popups for content display, user interaction, announcements, forms, or promotions — and control exactly when, where, and how they appear on your website.
In this short video, you can find a quick overview of how to create a popup in WordPress.
Popup Box allows you to create a wide variety of modal popups and overlays w…
With a bit of hand-holding, not only does hover popups work perfect, but it helped me located a duplicate element on my website.
I took over management of a site that used this plug in and their customer service was very responsive and helped me figure out how it works and worked out some kinks from the previous set up. Would definitively recommend.
This is a great plugin,
It works flawlessly, meets all expectations, and is very intuitive to use. The team behind its development is extremely helpful, they respond quickly to questions and provide professional support. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable solution!
Plugin works as intended. Super helpful support too.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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