MailOptin – Popup, Optin Forms & vs Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN

Popup Maker, Email Newsletter, User Registration & Form Builder Build popups & optin forms to get more email newsletter subscribers, leads, and sales with our intuitive popup builder plugin! 🚀 MailOptin is a form builder and popup maker for creating popups, subscribe forms, user registration forms, and sending email newsletters. With the MailOptin popup plugin, you can displays signup forms, targeted messages, and call-to-actions across your website with a popup (lightbox or modal), in-post subscription form, notification bars, slide-in (or scroll box), and sidebar widget. Our easy-to-use popup maker allows you to create beautiful popup and lead generation campaigns in minutes, not hours! Automatically notify your subscribers and WordPress users every time you publish new content on your blog. MailOptin sends blog posts as email newsletters. Learn more Our popup optin forms are GDPR-compliant. MailOptin Premium This is the lite version of the MailOptin Premium popup plugin that comes with all essential features to build your email list. Click here to purchase our WordPress subscribe form & email newsletter plugin. Take Test Drive Create a demo sandbox to see how MailOptin works firsthand as well as the admin backend. Features of MailOptin Lite Lead Generation Lightbox Popups – Custom popups that overlay above your content to grab your visitor’s attention. See Demo Before & After Post Optins – Optimal for converting your blog readers and website page viewers. See Demo Sidebar/Widget Forms – The most popular method of building an email list. See Demo Calls to Actions – Display targeted messages to your website visitors with a call-to-action button urging them to act. Spam Protection – MailOptin uses Honeypot to stop spam contact form submissions. Additionally protection via reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare Turnstile protection are available in the premium version. After Conversion Actions – Close the opt-in form after conversion, close the form, and reload the page or redirect to a custom URL. Additionally, premium version allows you to trigger a JavaScript code as well as pass lead data to redirect URL. Page-level Targeting – lets you display optin or email signup form in specific posts and pages of your WordPress site. Email Newsletters New Post Notification: It allows you to create automated email newsletters of new blog posts (which can be restricted to specific post categories and tags) to all registered users or users of specific roles immediately after they are published. This makes keeping in touch with your subscribers or users very easy. Broadcasts: It allows you to send one-off emails to your registered users. Pro version can send to MemberPress members, LearnDash users, Tutor LMS students, Paid Memberships Pro members, Restrict Content Pro members, LifterLMS students, Easy Digital Downloads & WooCommerce customers, Active subscribers in WooCommerce Subscriptions, Members in WooCommerce Memberships, GiveWP Donors and list subscribers in Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, Sendy, Constant Contact, AWeber, Kit (ConvertKit), MailerLite, GetResponse, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign, Brevo (Sendinblue), SendGrid, Mailjet, Keap Max Classic (Infusionsoft), Zoho Campaigns, Moosend, Vertical Response, NewsMAN, CleverReach, iContact, Sender, Mailgun, E-goi, Elastic Email etc. Scheduling: It allows you to set when the newsletter is sent. It could be immediately after a post is published or a few minutes, hours, or days after publication. Beautiful and Responsive Email template ready to send out newsletters. Integrates with All Email Marketing Platforms MailOptin popup maker works with all popular email marketing software and CRM, including Mailchimp, AWeber, Constant Contact, Campaign Monitor, Salesforce, Sendy, Mailerlite, MailPoet, Kit (ConvertKit), ActiveCampaign, Infusionsoft by Keap, Drip, Brevo (Sendinblue), EmailOctopus, HubSpot, Ontraport CRM, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Mailjet, Klaviyo, Sendlane, Mailster, Moosend, Gist, VerticalResponse, Zoho CRM, Zoho Campaigns, Emma, SendFox, SendGrid Email Marketing, GoDaddy Email Marketing, CleverReach, Omnisend, Google Sheets, GetResponse, iContact, E-goi, Mailgun, Flodesk, Beehiiv, Elastic Email, Encharge, HighLevel, weMail, FluentCRM, Benchmark Email, Mailercloud, SendPulse, Bento, Groundhogg, Sender.net, Copper CRM and NewsMAN. User Registration Forms MailOptin integrates with the WordPress user system to create custom user registration forms that can be embedded, a popup, slide-in, notification bar, etc. Integration with Form Plugins MailOptin integrates with Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, Ninja Forms, WPForms, Formidable Forms, Forminator, Fluent Forms, Elementor forms and WS Form so you can capture and save leads to your email marketing software and CRMs. WooCommerce, LearnDash, LifterLMS, MemberPress, Ultimate Member, Tutor LMS, Paid Memberships Pro, Easy Digital Downloads, GiveWP & Restrict Content Pro MailOptin syncs your WooCommerce customers, WooCommerce Memberships, Ultimate Member users, Easy Digital Downloads customers, LearnDash, Tutor LMS, Paid Memberships Pro, LifterLMS students, Restrict Content Pro, MemberPress members and GiveWP donors to your email list or gives them the option to subscribe during checkout, course enrollment, membership subscription and donation. Do you want to segment your marketing list based on their order from a specific product category or tag? The membership they are subscribed to or the course they are enrolled in? You’re covered. Intuitive Form & Template Builder You don’t have to be a designer or hire one to build high-converting optin forms and popups. Our powerful drag & drop builder allows you to create conversion-optimized forms and email newsletter templates. Features of MailOptin Premium Automated Newsletters MailOptin integrates WordPress with all major email marketing providers to send automated newsletters and event-triggered emails. This can be very useful if your email marketing service lacks such. For example, Sendy is a newsletter application without integration with WordPress to send new publish post notifications to an email list. MailOptin bridges this gap and delivers your post content immediately after publication. Use MailOptin today to deliver new post notifications and email digest newsletters to subscribers of email lists in Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Campaign Monitor, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign, Kit (ConvertKit), Infusionsoft, Brevo (Sendinblue), SendGrid, Mailjet, CleverReach, Zoho Campaigns, MailerLite, Sendy, SendGrid, iContact, Sender (Sender.net), E-goi, Mailercloud, Mailgun, Bento, SendPulse, Elastic Email, WordPress users, MemberPress members, LifterLMS students, LearnDash users, Tutor LMS users, Paid Memberships Pro members, Easy Digital Downloads, Restrict Content Pro Members & WooCommerce customers, Active subscribers in WooCommerce Subscriptions, Members in WooCommerce Memberships, GiveWP donors etc. Email Digest Email Digest allows you to create automated daily, weekly, and monthly email newsletters of published posts and articles in WordPress. The email campaigns from Email Digest can be sent to registered WordPress users, subscribers in your CRM and email marketing software and users and members in your ecommerce, LMS and membership plugins including WooCommerce, MemberPress, LearnDash, Tutor LMS, Paid Memberships Pro, Give, etc A/B Testing: Take out the guesswork Marketers are constantly using trial and error to guess what will be most effective — but they shouldn’t have to. A/B content testing lets you see what optin campaign will be most effective before sharing it with your larger audience—no more guesswork. MailOptin ships with an easy built-in A/B testing feature that enables you to make data-driven decisions to improve your conversions and revenue for any optin campaign. Learn more More highly converting optin types There are cases where you would find popups, sidebar, and in-post optin forms an inappropriate solution. That is why we offer different optin form types such as notification bars and slide-ins popups, so you don’t have to rely on one way of collecting leads and install multiple software and platforms to achieve them. Powerful Content Locker Block a portion of your content for subscribers only. Content locking requires users to enter their email addresses to see the full article; otherwise, they will see a blurred content. Conversion Boosting Optin Display Rules & Triggers MailOptin includes several WooCommerce display rules & triggers to display targeted call-to-actions across your WooCommerce shop. Want to display a popup when a product is added to the cart? We’ve got you covered. The following conditions are available for creating upsells, down-sells & cross-sells: Products in Cart, Customer, has Purchased, Cart Item Count, Cart Total, and Customer Spent. Timing is everything. This is why MailOptin continually tracks visitors’ interaction on your website and displays the right message or optin form when they are likely to convert. Our exit-intent popup technology and slide-ins trigger convert abandoning visitors into subscribers by your optin campaign at the precise moment they are about leaving your website. If your opt-in form displays too early, your reader might not yet be willing to subscribe, and waiting too long will make you lose out on new leads. Our Pageviews and Time on Site triggers give you fine-grained control over the display of your optin campaigns. The Scroll Trigger displays optin forms or messages only after a visitor scrolls a down a specific percentage of your page. The Click Launch Trigger displays optin forms when a link, button, or image on your site is clicked. Helpful in implementing content upgrades. AdBlock Detection helps you detect users using AdBlocking software such as AdBlock Plus, uBlock Origin so you can display another content to them. The Referrer Detection can automatically track sources of web traffic and create optin forms, call to actions, and custom messages targeted from a specific traffic source. The Device Targeting allows you to target your optins to desktop, mobile, and tablet users for a better user experience and increased conversion. Other great features include: Custom Fields: Add extra fields to your optin form to capture additional data from subscribers. Optin Campaign Schedule: Allows you to specify a start and end date when an optin campaign is scheduled for display. Advance Analytics: Get essential metrics to improve your lead-generation strategy and make data-driven decisions to increase your revenue. Custom CSS: An advance customization feature allows you to customize your optin campaigns with your CSS styles. Display Effect: 30+ built-in CSS3 animation effects to capture your visitor’s attention and bring awareness to your optin forms. Sound Effect: Play sounds when your optin campaigns are displayed to grab users’ attention. Learn more MailOptin Leads: Store your leads within MailOptin and essential data about your subscribers that generally can’t be passed to your ESP, such as the referrer, time of conversion, and where it occurred. Shortcode & Template Tag Embed: Display optin forms anywhere on your website page and posts with shortcodes and anywhere on your theme with template tags. Autoresponder: Immediately send an email to leads or subscribers that sign up to your email list. Email Notification after Conversion: Receive immediate email notification whenever you get a new subscriber. Facebook Custom Audience Integration: save leads to Facebook custom audiences so you can retarget them later. User Registration Optin: Subscribe users to your email marketing list after they register or signup to WordPress. Learn more Comment Form Optin: Subscribe users/visitors to your email list after they submit the comment form. Learn more What’s Next If you like this plugin, then consider checking out our other products: ProfilePress – Custom registration, login, front-end profile and user management plugin in the market. FuseWP – Connect WordPress to marketing platforms and sync users to your email list.

Compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load automatically with the powerful Smush image optimizer to keep your WordPress site fast, without losing quality. Smush makes it easy to optimize images, compress images, and deliver images faster across your entire WordPress site. This all-in-one image optimizer automatically reduces image file sizes, enables image lazy load, and serves modern formats like WebP and AVIF, all without breaking image quality or adding extra work. Whether you’re running a blog, store, or portfolio, Smush helps you optimize images at scale and keep your site fast with a trusted WordPress image optimizer. Trusted by 1+ Million Sites | 4.8/5 Star Rating Get everything you need to optimize images and speed up your site. Smush works out of the box with no complicated setup – just install and let it handle the rest. Compress images without losing quality Reduce image file size automatically while keeping your images sharp and clear. 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Trusted by over 1 million WordPress users Built specifically for WordPress Regular updates and improvements Backed by the WPMU DEV team Get started in minutes Install Smush, activate it, and start to compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load right away. This easy-to-use image optimizer helps most sites see improvements immediately without changing how they upload or manage images. About Us WPMU DEV is a premium supplier of quality WordPress plugins, services and support. Learn more here: https://wpmudev.com/ Don’t forget to stay up to date on everything WordPress from the Internet’s number one resource: WPMU DEV Blog Hey, one more thing… we hope you enjoy our free offerings as much as we’ve loved making them for you! Contact and Credits Originally written by Alex Dunae at Dialect (dialect.ca, e-mail ‘alex’ at ‘dialect dot ca’), 2008-11.