Fly in or pop up form

Hi. The sign up forms can appear in any widget sidebar/area or in a page or post with a short code. So to make it pop up or fly in your theme or another plugin running would need to be able to render a page/post or widget in such a context.

There are various techniques for this, so I can’t really point you in one direction, other than to say to try some plugins out there in a dev environment to test them out, or contact your theme developer or designer for the best fit for your site.

I have the same question…many other pop up plugins are integrated with mail chimp and constant contact, but not benchmark. Is there a way around this? I would rather not have to manually add every email that signs up via the pop up plugin. Total integration would be much better.

Thanks

I have been using Layered Popups for a long time now and it syncs perfectly with benchmark email.

Hello nycplugged,

So the Benchmark Email Lite plugin is a total integration in that it does provide any number of newsletter sign up forms that you can customize. The plugin can also send emails and track sent campaign statistics directly connected to the Benchmark Email servers.

So you should not need to manually add subscriptions to your Benchmark Email list as those can go in directly. It sounds like you may be using a secondary tool for that, leading to the manual work. Our subscribe form can be placed in any widget area or be called by a short code. The short code you can use displays on the widget once saved in any sidebar or the Inactive sidebar.

Now, if you want to display that subscription form (widget or short code) in a pop-up that is integrated, you must set-up the subscription widget as normal, then add it to a pop-up system of one flavor or another. Theme and plugins all handle that differently so there is no single solution for creating a popup or modal. The original poster wesleygenebarnes suggested the plugin Layered Popups, and I can say there are lots of other Lightwindow, Lightbox, Shadowbox, Thickbox, etc. plugins out there that could work for this.

Once one of those are installed, to make a simplistic example, if you created a WP Widget in the Inactive sidebar for your mailing list and the short code provided by that instance is for example [benchmark-email-lite widget_id="2"] you could place that within a WP Page encapsulated with a DIV layer that presents it as a modal. For example <div class="lightwindow">[benchmark-email-lite widget_id="2"]</div>

I also created a sample on a dev site of ours running a basic free theme called Sparkling which is powered by a Twitter Bootstrap framework. That framework has a built in modal system which I used to create a working example with this code in a WP Page body:

<button type="button" class="btn btn-info btn-lg" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">Open Modal</button>
<div id="myModal" class="modal fade" role="dialog">
  <div class="modal-dialog">
    <div class="modal-content">
      <div class="modal-header">
        <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">×</button>
        <h4 class="modal-title">Modal Header</h4>
      </div>
      <div class="modal-body">
        [benchmark-email-lite widget_id="2"]
      </div>
      <div class="modal-footer">
        <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

ok I will try that. thanks!

It looks like its not being updated and such. Need something up to date.

Hi nycplugged,

I am not clear on what you mean by needing something up to date. Can you elaborate?

Also, I put the Bootstrap Modal code (above) for demonstration at this URL:
https://dev-benchmark-email-lite.pantheonsite.io/modal/

Oh that was for Wesley…the plugin they recommended isn’t updated…

As for your recommendation Sean. Are you saying I download one those “box” plugins and then add the benchmark sign up form code to that?

I am not a developer just an end-user. I like the fact that’s whoever developed layered pop ups does not require me to constantly update the app every couple of weeks. It works great, you can see it in action my website if you want. https://www.internationalvolunteering.com the app has a ton of features and most importantly it places people’s email into benchmark email without any problems.

You could say they built an app that works and that they don’t have to fix bugs in all of the time, which then requires us to update all the time.

Hi nycplugged,

Right. Pop-ups are either built into your theme via its Framework (ex: Bootstrap, Foundation, Genesis) or via third party plugin (ex flavors: Lightbox, Lightwindow, Shadowbox, Thickbox, jQuery UI Dialog, etc.). Once you have your pop-up system selected, you can render the Benchmark Email Lite sign up form into an instance of it using the short code on a page wrapped with a DIV layer that calls your pop-up system, as in the above examples.

Can I also just use the code I get from the benchmark site?

Only if your theme is Bootstrap based. The example I did used a theme based on that Framework, which is one of the popular ones ??