How to Use WordPress Shortcodes with Popup Box
Displaying interactive content inside your survey can boost your website conversion and increase the time users spend on your website, thus decreasing the bounce rate. It helps keep your audience engaged by offering them something more dynamic than plain text or static images.
Interactive Content can start from surveys and quizzes and end with charts showing live demographics, etc. With Popup Box the process of displaying other content created via WordPress Plugins is easy and quick.
This is especially helpful when you want to combine different plugin functionalities—such as forms, countdown timers, or product displays—within a single popup window.
Let’s go through the 3 steps of displaying WordPress shortcodes with Popup Box Plugin.
Step 1
In Popup Box, there is a special shortcode type popup for displaying content via shortcode. It’s a simple and flexible way to add features from other WordPress plugins, like contact forms, quizzes, or countdown timers, directly into your popup. This allows you to insert any functional element from another plugin directly into the popup—without extra coding.
To set up your shortcode popup click on “Add New”→ “Shortcode” type → “Default” template. This type is specifically designed for embedding content from other plugins using shortcodes. Note that you can choose any template and customize each of them however you want. In most cases, though, a simple layout works best. My choice is the blank template, as there isn’t much to customize for this popup type—the main focus is the content inserted via the shortcode itself.
This is how the Popup looks without any shortcodes
Step 2
Go to the General Settings and find the Shortcode field. This is where you need to insert the shortcode. But before that let’s see where to find the shortcodes. Let’s say that you have a WordPress survey or WordPress quiz plugin. When you create content via any of those plugins, the plugin generates a short code written in brackets, by inserting those shortcodes into posts and pages WordPress interprets and displays the content without you using any codes.
The same happens when you display a shortcode into the Popup Box, it automatically interprets and shows the content inside the module.
Here I copied the shortcode of the survey that I have created with the Survey Maker plugin and pated it in the mentioned Shortcode field of Popup Box.
Step 3
After you are done, you can think of the background color of your website popup, and other details to brand it and make it match your website. Popup Box gives you the opportunity to set display rules, and even user limitations, let’s say you have a quick survey for guests, you can enable displaying the popup for those who are not logged in.
Here is what we created!
To Wrap Up!
Survey Popups with quick questionnaires can make your customers interact with you and share ideas on your products and services. And you can share your ideas on our Youtube Channel and Blog, where you can also find detailed and step-by-step tutorials on how to use different WordPress plugins to get the best result.
