It’s been made overcomplicated is valid, also lacks simple needs

  • adabob

    (@adabob)


    3 weeks, 2 days ago

    The basic “Link which the pop up points to is missing, instead a list of options that make no sense to many. “Keep it simple Stupid” is a concept that has been around for decades. Also this is a plugin rarely used by users, they create a pop up and then never use it as much in the future, it adds its own over done menu which is already used too often by plugins it should go in “TOOLS” or “SETTINGS” it is a tool is it not?
    Maybe offer a simple mode and an “Advance over complicated mode. What the developer needs to understand is you designed it the way your brain works which may not be the users ability or thought process.
    Imagine the user just wanted to have a graphic pop up that links to a page or post. The tour does not do this justice thus as a possible customer for one more plugin we move on.
    Also the extremely large logo which is placed when you look for plugins on your plugin page takes up too much space and is far too tall, that alone turns people off

    • This topic was modified 3 weeks, 2 days ago by adabob.
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  • Plugin Author Daniel Iser

    (@danieliser)

    3 weeks ago

    Hi @adabob,

    Thank you for the detailed feedback. Your central point is fair: someone who simply wants an image or button in a popup to link to another page should be able to discover that workflow quickly, and our current onboarding does not explain it clearly enough.

    Popup Maker does not have one destination URL for the entire popup because a popup can contain multiple links, buttons, forms, and other actions. For the use case you described, the link is added directly to the image or button inside the WordPress editor. That flexibility is useful, but it should not make the basic workflow feel unnecessarily complicated. A clearer simple-start experience is something we need to improve.

    The top-level menu is intentional because many sites manage multiple popups along with their triggers, targeting rules, themes, analytics, and settings. Our opt-in usage data shows that most reporting sites have multiple popups and many use more than one targeting or trigger configuration. Placing the entire product under Tools or Settings would make those ongoing workflows harder to find, though we understand that it can feel excessive for someone maintaining only one simple popup.

    The oversized logo on the Plugins screen was a display bug rather than an intentional design choice. It was caused by a WordPress 7.1 markup change breaking our existing sizing selector, and it has been corrected in Popup Maker 1.25.0.

    We appreciate the candid feedback. The advanced capabilities are intentional, but the simplest use cases should still feel simple.

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