Folders for Popup Maker popups
Every campaign brings new popups: a spring discount, a webinar sign-up, an exit offer, a newsletter box for the blog. A year later the popup list holds dozens of names, and half of them are switched off.
Plathix PRO adds private folders to the Popup Maker list in wp-admin. Group popups by campaign, page or team and open just the folder you need. Popups, their triggers and their settings stay as they are.
Dozens of popups and most of them old
The Popup Maker list shows every popup you ever made: live offers, tests, copies, and campaigns that ended months ago.
A popup you switch off stays in the same list. So the list grows with every campaign, and the one popup you need sits between twenty you do not.
Popups made over the years, all in one list
Popups are quick to make and easy to forget. People describe a list that only grows.
A lot of popups made over the years, some switched on and some off, all in one list.
Sixty popups, and many old ones nobody uses any more.
It is hard to sift through all the popups. Each one has its own purpose, and you want a cleaner way to sort them.
A few hundred old popups left on the site from before. Not needed any more, but is it safe to delete that many?
Folders split the popup list by campaign, page or purpose, and old popups can wait in an archive folder until you decide.
Folders that match how you run campaigns
By campaign
One folder per campaign: the offer, the exit popup and the mobile bar stay together.
By page or section
Shop, blog, landing pages: see at once which popups belong to which part of the site.
By team
Marketing, sales, support: each team finds its own popups and leaves the others alone.
Past campaigns
Ended campaigns move to an archive folder instead of being deleted, ready to copy next year.
Ready to delete
Popups you plan to remove wait in one folder. Check them, then move them to Trash together. Restore one and it comes back to this folder.
Two lists, two folder trees
Folders for popups
The panel sits beside the Popup Maker list. Click a folder and the list shows only its popups.
Folders for popup themes
Popup themes have their own list, so they get their own tree. Turn on both in Enabled Sections.
On and off popups counted
A folder counts every popup in it, switched on or off, and drafts too.
A link for each folder
The address changes when you open a folder, so you can bookmark it or send it to a teammate.
Popup Maker never sees your folders
| What you do | What changes | What stays as it is |
|---|---|---|
| Put a popup in a folder | Its Plathix folder | The popup, its triggers, conditions and cookies |
| Rename or move a folder | The folder tree in wp-admin | Where and when each popup opens |
| Switch a popup off in the list | Its Enabled state | Its folder |
| Trash a popup, then restore it | Its Trash state | Its folder: it comes back to the same place |
| Turn Plathix PRO off | The list looks like plain WordPress | Your folders wait in the database and come back |
Folders have no URLs and never appear on the site.
How we test Popup Maker
We run each check on a live site with Plathix PRO and the current Popup Maker version, on the real popup screens.
Status Planned
Results go to Plathix Lab. Each row turns into a link once it has run.
| Check | What we verify | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Enable popups | Tick Popups (popup) and Popup Themes (popup_theme) in Enabled Sections; both lists get a panel. | Planned |
| Enabled switch | Turn a popup off and on in the list: it stays in its folder. | Planned |
| Categories and tags | Folder view together with the Popup Maker category and tag filters. | Planned |
| Front end unchanged | Move a live popup between folders: it opens on the same pages as before. | Planned |
| Trash and restore | A trashed popup comes back to its folder. | Planned |
Popup Maker folders FAQ
Do folders change when or where a popup opens?
Does a folder called Archive switch popups off?
Do popup themes get folders too?
Can I keep Popup Maker categories and tags?
How do I turn it on?
Is this in Plathix Free?
Related pages
Keep running campaigns. Keep the popup list tidy.
Popups and popup themes in folders you choose. Nothing changes for your visitors.