Import/Create Popups in bulk?

@jm – Our popups and popup themes use the WP Custom Post Type API and can be imported/exported the same as posts/pages.

That however would only work for created popups. Not for shortcodes inserted into pages/posts. In that case you could export/import those posts/pages as well.

Not really sure exactly what your trying to do so its a bit hard to give a precise answer.

@jm – PS if you plan to have that many popups then using some type of dynamic content will be much more efficient depending on how many are needed on a per page basis. We launched a new extension recently that allows for that type of thing. Remote Content will allow you to set up one popup for potentially hundreds of triggers. Then each trigger can be set to change the content through various methods. Really just depends on your needs.

Hi Daniel,

Thank you so much for your replies!

I really like the idea of the AJAX Setup (if that’s what you mean by “allow you to set up one popup for potentially hundreds of triggers. Then each trigger can be set to change the content through various methods.”), but there isn’t a whole lot of documentation, so I’m pretty sure I would have no idea how to implement it.

What I am doing is…I am going to have a list of vocabulary words on certain pages in my LMS and I would like each to open in a popup to show a video of the vocabulary word. I have a couple hundred and I plan to have more in the future.

Do you think the AJAX functionality would be good for this use?

Thanks again for your help!

@jm – The docs for Remote Content extension are here. They are still in progress but should give you at least some idea of what it can do.

https://docs.wppopupmaker.com/category/31-remote-content

The following will help find the correct solution.
How are the vocab words stored?
Are the videos self hosted or youtube etc?
How are you associating a video with the word. IE is it a field you edit in your admin for each word?

The remote content extension would definitely fit the bill for this, but which of the 3 available modes you use depends on the above questions.

Yeah the documentation is tough since I don’t have any AJAX knowledge. I don’t even know where that code goes…

The vocab words are just a list of links. I currently have an iFrame setup where the links in one iFrame open the video on a page in another iFrame.

The videos are self hosted mp4 files.

The words will be associated with the videos in the link text and popup titles.

You can see an example here I’m testing with another plugin: https://www.startasl.com/members/modal-testing/

@jm – Ok so now having seen what you have now, my suggestion may take some setup time, but will save you tons of time down the line.

Currently looks like you have created a ultimate modal for each phrase with the video and content there already.

A) you have to precreate the modal for every phrase which is a pain.
B) it loads tons of modals in the footer and would never work well with ajax page switching/pagination

Do you manage the phrases using WP somehow such as a custom post type?
If not I would suggest that, unless you have something in place already, in which case we need to try and add the video URL as an extra field to y

What we should do is set up an extra meta field for each phrase using the Remote Content extension and a little JavaScript we can make one popup work for all of those links, even if they are added using AJAX such as an infinite scroll situation.

When they click a link, just before it opens the popup it will replace the video source with the one clicked, the title with the one clicked and if you choose you could also set it to play the video on open.

You could take it a bit further and technically add next/prev buttons ( not included and would require some custom work ) that could switch between phrases.

The caveat I am seeing is how to easily transfer the URL from the popup to the phrase editor without a huge waste of manual effort.

Wow! That sounds awesome! I am completely new to AJAX though, so I really have no idea how to do this.

There is no custom post type for the phrases – it’s just a hosted video. I thought about doing the Popup Maker CPT for everything (I still have a ton of words to do as well), but I can’t get the Tags to work (see other thread) and the regular Popup Maker shortcode wouldn’t work well with the ajax page switching either, right?

I don’t mind manual work up front – I just want it to work well and be the best that it can be so I don’t have to do it again later. ??

Do you do custom work, by any chance? ??

Hi Daniel,

I just purchased the extension (yay!) but I really have no idea what to do with the documentation for what I need. If you create two samples for me and tell me where to put the code, I can probably go from there. And I have no problem paying for your time. ??

@jm – Contact our support directly and I will assist you getting it going. If you prefer we also have a priority support option that would include me just setting it up for you.

You can open a ticket either way at https://wppopupmaker.com/support/.

As far as custom work, yes I do provide that as well in case you decide to set up custom post types for your terms like we discussed.

Perfect! I opened a ticket. Thanks, Daniel! ??