Looking for a new way to entice your site visitors? WP Popup is the lightbox/popup plugin built with performance in mind.
As of April 2026, WP Popup is a WordPress popup plugin with 900 active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Top alternative: Popup Builder & Popup Maker for….
WP Popup is a plugin for implementing whatever you want to call them — modals, lightboxes, overlays or popups — on your site. While it offers fine-tuned control over where and when the lightboxes display, it was developed with the goal of being simple and lightweight: WP Popup won’t cause your site to take a big performance hit by loading lots of complicated and extraneous CSS and JavaScript.
WP Popup lets you use the standard WordPress post editor to build and configure your popups. In addition to full WYSIWYG editing of popup content, WP Popup gives you powerful control over what triggers the appearance of your lightbox. Triggers can be set so popups show:
| WordPress | 4.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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