How do I create a sidebar optin with this plugin?

@nzt1012 – How would you expect/see that working? What part of the Popup you create would be put there?

If you simply mean our optin forms, maybe, though we haven’t officially tested it there and do not support it currently in any way (IE if you try it and run into trouble you may be on your own for the time being). But we are planning to work out all the kinks for that in the future so it can be used on its own.

Otherwise I’m not sure what your asking exactly. How much of our settings & interface could be applied to a widget? (does that makes more since?)

@danieliser I mean a simple sidebar optin form like this one which just stays in the sidebar and collects emails.

Usually this requires two separate plugins, one for popups and one for optins(like optinmonster). Now while mainly your plugin is for popups, I am wondering if I can create a sidebar optin form as well with it.

How do I embed an form in the sidebar?

Sorry for not being more clear. English is not my first language.

Thank you.

Hello @nzt1012:

I think I can be of assistance here. I work part-time in the Popup Maker support forums and also write documentation for the plugin.

The use case that you describe and demonstrate through your screenshot can be done using our plugin. However, you have to follow a specific strategy to make it work.

Obviously, you’re going to use a form plugin. Since we are Ninja Forms (NF) affiliates (and our plugin integrates with their plugin), lets use NF as an example.

You create an email signup form with NF and pass that plugin’s shortcode into the editor of a popup. When that popup appears, it will display the NF form inside the popup container.

Now you want to capture the same information in a static form placed inside a sidebar widget. Do not use the same form shortcode inside the widget. The popup will behave in unexpected and unwanted ways.

Instead, create a second form with NF, and enter the second form shortcode into the widget editor. One form plugin; 2 forms; and 2 form shortcodes, with the first shortcode dedicated for the popup editor, and the second shortcode dedicated to the sidebar widget.

That should work.

@nzt1012 – @yogaman5020 brought up a good point, we have integrations with the most popular form plugins already that would do this now as well.

That said our [pum_sub_form] shortcode may do the trick but I’m not sure about in the sidebar widgets as I simply haven’t tested it. See the docs here for that: https://docs.wppopupmaker.com/article/361-shortcode-subscription-form