10 Best Popups Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Popups has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Popups
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Slick Popup
Closest matchSlick Popup: Contact Form 7 Popup Plugin
4.7 (22) 1,000+ active installsA lightweight plugin that converts a Contact Form 7 form into a customizable pop-up form which is slick, beautiful and responsive to different screen …
Shares the cf7, contact form 7 tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated September 24, 2025.
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Forms: 3rd-Party Integration
4.9 (31) 5,000+ active installsSend contact form submissions from other plugins to multiple external services e.g. CRM. Configurable, custom field mapping, pre/post processing.
Shares the cf7, contact form, contact form 7 tags on WordPress.org. About 1.7 times the installs, no update since September 9, 2019.
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Contact Form 7 – Success Page Redirects
4.2 (27) 10,000+ active installsAn add-on for Contact Form 7 that provides a straightforward method to redirect visitors to success pages or thank you pages.
Shares the cf7, contact form, contact form 7 tags on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.9 (103) 10,000+ active installsThis WordPress Plugin Adds Contact Form 7 widget element to Elementor page builder for easy drag & drop the created contact forms with CF7 (contac …
Shares the cf7, contact form, contact form 7 tags on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated 20 days ago.
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Database Addon for Contact Form 7 – CFDB7
5.0 (1,875) 600,000+ active installsSave and manage Contact Form 7 messages. Never lose important data. It is a lightweight contact form 7 database plugin.
Shares the cf7, contact form 7 tags on WordPress.org. About 200 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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5.0 (51) 30,000+ active installsUse Contact Form 7 as a trigger to any webhook!
Shares the cf7, contact form tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated June 5, 2026.
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Contact Form 7 – Repeatable Fields
4.3 (21) 6,000+ active installsAdds repeatable groups of fields to Contact Form 7.
Shares the cf7, contact form 7 tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since October 22, 2024.
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4.6 (36) 6,000+ active installsEasily add an handwritten signature field to Contact Form 7
Shares the contact form, contact form 7 tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since August 19, 2019.
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Contact Form 7 – Post Fields
5.0 (34) 3,000+ active installsThis plugin provides a dynamic post selection, radio and checkbox field to your CF7 forms.
Shares the contact form, contact form 7 tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated February 13, 2026.
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4.4 (23) 7,000+ active installsAdd Awesome Contact Form7 for Elementor with easy way.
Shares the contact form, contact form 7 tags on WordPress.org. About 2.3 times the installs, last updated December 29, 2025.
Switching from Popups: common questions
What is the best alternative to Popups?
Slick Popup is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 1,000+ active installs with a 4.7 out of 5 rating.
Which Popups alternative has the most users?
CFDB7, with 600,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Popups alternative is rated highest?
CFDB7, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 1,875 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Popups alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Popups score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Popups on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Slick Popup is the closest match to Popups by the data we track, and CFDB7 has the widest reach with 600,000+ active installs. CFDB7 shipped the most recent release, on August 20, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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