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New to Pop Over – Usage Questions – Preview Option? Delay Before Pop Up? Feature Requests.

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Hi all,

I’ve installed, activated and set some initial settings for Pop Over version 3.0 and have a couple questions and/or feature requests.

1. Is there a Pop Up Preview feature that I’m not seeing? If not, I think this would be useful if possible to add it to the feature list.

2. Is there an option to set a delay before the pop over shows up? It would be nice to let visitors judge my content’s credibility by being able to skim my articles for 3-10 seconds before presenting them with a call to action via the pop over. Pop Up Domination allows this (and I have this plugin) but the Pop Over plugin offers more flexibility on the content I can include…and looks prettier too:wink:

3. Different Pop Over content Per-Rule. It would be great to be able to target each rule with different Pop Over content.

Ex 1: Visit from Search Engine (I’m glad you found us via your search, learn how we optimized our content with simple SEO <—aff link to WPMU DEV)

Ex: 2: Visitor has Never Commented (Link what you’re reading? Consider sharing your comments below.)

Any thoughts or info you can provide on the above would be greatly appreciated.

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:24:39
  • Barry
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Thanks – I’ll take a look and see if we can implement any, the popover plugin is due an update.

    2. Is there an option to set a delay before the pop over shows up? It would be nice to let visitors judge my content’s credibility by being able to skim my articles for 3-10 seconds before presenting them with a call to action via the pop over. Pop Up Domination allows this (and I have this plugin) but the Pop Over plugin offers more flexibility on the content I can include…and looks prettier too:wink:

    If you edit the popover.js file (popoverincludes/js) and change the line:

    jQuery('#messagebox').css('visibility', 'visible');

    to something like:

    jQuery('#messagebox').delay(1000).css('visibility', 'visible');

    See http://api.jquery.com/delay/ for more details. The 1000 figure is the delay in milliseconds.

  • Adam W. Warner
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    @ DavidM, thanks, I’m really good at coming up with feature requests…I guess you could say I’m a “feature creeper”…:wink:

    @ Barry, good to “see” you! I will try that edit within the next couple days and report back.

    Thanks for your quick responses guys, most appreciated.

  • Adam W. Warner
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    Hi Barry,

    Just gave this a try and it doesn’t seem to be affecting anything, no delay happening. I changed line 27 in /popover/popoverincludes/js/popover.js to this:

    jQuery('#messagebox').delay(5000).css('visibility', 'visible');

    I have W3 Total Cache installed, but have “emptied all caches” in this plugin while editing the site in Firefox. Then have Safari open and in “Private” mode then loading the page.

    There is no delay happening.

    Is there anything else I could try?

  • Barry
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    I was ready the docs on the delay function, apparently it works well for events but not so for just hide and show – so you could either do:

    jQuery('#messagebox').delay(5000).fadeIn('slow');

    which might get around that, or bypass the jQuery delay thing completely and try using the standard JS approach of setTimeout. e.g.

    setTimeout ('jQuery('#messagebox').css('visibility', 'visible')', 5000 );

    Or even put that command in a function and the use setTimeout on that:

    function Pop_show() {
    
jQuery('#messagebox').css('visibility', 'visible');
    
}
    

    
setTimeout('Pop_show()', 5000);

  • Michel Mosca
    • Site Builder, Child of Zeus

    I too like the idea of timed and fading in/out popovers. I have tried above proposed solutions, but none of them seems to work. They have some cool fading and lightbox effects, but the .js looks somewhat more complex and the pop looks undelightfully windowish.

    If you allow, this could be added to the wish list for some additional features… :

    don’t show from specific referrer (the inverse of “via a specific referrer”:wink:

    don’t show on page/post ID

    once per session

    not showing for xx hours / days (variable cookie expiration)

    effects: fading, delay, lightbox, sliding…

    positioning: scrolling / fixed

    showing content variations (depending on regions, language, referrers..)

    errh…that might be enough for the moment.

    this plugin is already quite cool, but I am quite sure it could be pimped out to be one of the hot selling items on WPMUDEV.

  • Ovidiu
    • Code Wrangler

    here is my +1 for these features but also looking for more:

    more rules: i.e.

    – different pop-overs per rule as stated above but with the option to show different popup for different pages/posts

    – a scheduler/timer , i.e. show pop over every Monday, etc.

    – additional counter, i.e. show one pop over for new visitors, once, then never again,…

    you get the idea, we need more customizable lists/rules :slight_smile: