As of April 2026, PopPop is a WordPress modal plugin with 70 active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 9.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 12 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Firelight Lightbox.
This plugin enables you to quickly add beautiful modals by adding widgets to the Popup area. You can choose to trigger the popup automatically on page load, or manually, which the plugin generates the required code for you.
Since 0.4, the plugin can be extended to support any popup script library (beta stage). Now the plugin supports RokBox plugin as well. To enable it, you must add this bit to your wp-config.php file:
define( ‘POPPOP_SCRIPT’, ‘RokBox_PopPop_Script’ );
You can use Widget Logic plugin to completely take control of in which parts of your website the popups are displayed.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.6.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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