Open external web page in popup

@theokoopman – What content do you have in your popup? An Iframe? If so some websites (such as google.com) cannot be loaded in an iframe, they block those requests.

As for your click trigger it will only work if your conditions are not preventing the popup from loading on the page that the link is on.

Also you don’t need both class=”popmake-513″ and the [popup_trigger] shortcode. They both end up as the same thing when rendered. The shortcode simply adds the correct class so you don’t have to.

@danieliser

It’s not an iframe, but a link to a google maps page. I have it set up with href, but I’m not sure of the exact syntax, since I don’t want a link in the popup, but the page itself, so <a href=”etc. doesn’t seem right

@theokoopman – Ok now I am a bit more confused, so let me see if I got what you are saying.

You have a link on your page to a google map, you want that to open a popup instead of taking them to google maps.

If that is the case the link just needs to be like this:

<a href="#map-url" class="popmake-513">Link Text</a>

The above link on a page will trigger popup #513 when clicked.

Now the tricky part, what is actually going to be in that popup? If you want the map to appear you will need to look at plugins that can insert the map using HTML & the google Map JS API, because I do not think that you can load maps.google.com in an iframe. Nearly all google.com domains have blocking of iframes enabled.

There are plenty of map plugins so you will have your pick.

In any case a link to a site that triggers a popup doesn’t do anything special, just opens a blank popup if you didn’t add any content to the popup in question. We do have an extension for that type of thing, but even that extension can’t get around googles blocking.

Hope that helps.

Well, actually I was hoping that there was a way to open the webpage, or any webpage, in the popup. Is that possible? I like to keep my visitors on my website instead of bringing them to another website.

In the end the map on google maps is also just a webpage (https://www.google.com/maps/place/etc)

@theokoopman – I would check out plugins that create google maps :). Then you can simply enter the location, insert a shortcode into the popup and not worry about another website at all.

I was hoping that there was a way to open the webpage, or any webpage, in the popup. Is that possible?

Sure you can use an iframe in the text tab of the popup content editor

<iframe src="somewebsite.com"></iframe>

But not all sites allow you to load them like that, and this can slow your site down if you do it with a slow site.

We do offer the remote content extension to load sites on click in a popup but it is still limited by the sites allowing or blocking it.

Hope that helps.