Hi @swinggraphics
We understand your frustration, and we’re sorry the plugin’s UI and previous issues have affected your experience. We appreciate you taking the time to share this feedback.
We’ve shared your concerns about the exclamation mark with our dev team for review, and we’ll keep you updated once we hear back from them.
Regarding the logo icon issue on the Plugins page, this has been confirmed as fixed and will be included in the upcoming Popup Maker 1.25.0 release. The fix ensures the icon displays correctly on both older and newer WordPress versions. More details here: https://github.com/PopupMaker/Popup-Maker/issues/1376
Thank you for your patience, and please feel free to reach out if you have any other concerns or questions. 🙏
Hi @swinggraphics,
To clarify, the exclamation mark is not advertising and isn’t intended simply to attract attention to Popup Maker. It indicates that Popup Maker has information requiring review—such as newly available features, completed split-test results, or a configuration issue that may prevent a popup from working as intended.
We chose a small indicator within Popup Maker’s existing menu item because we believe it is less disruptive than displaying dismissible admin notices across multiple dashboard screens or sending additional emails. Reviewing and clearing the relevant notices will also clear the indicator.
That said, we recognize that different administrators have different preferences for how they receive this information. We agree that an opt-out is reasonable, and we’ll add a setting allowing administrators to disable these assistive notifications. We’ll frame the setting clearly so users understand that disabling it may mean missing recommendations or issues that could affect popup performance and conversions.
Popup Maker is built for more than displaying basic static popups. Features such as conversion tracking, split testing, targeting, and diagnostics require some ongoing feedback so users can improve their results. We’ll continue working to make that feedback useful and noticeable without overwhelming the WordPress dashboard.
As mentioned previously, the oversized Plugins-screen logo was a compatibility issue—not an intentional design choice—and the correction is scheduled for Popup Maker 1.25.0.
We appreciate the direct feedback. While we may not agree that every visual indicator is inherently intrusive, providing administrators with more control is a fair request.
These are shown to every user with access. And there is no option to dismiss all. It’s just annoying. Every update, the plugin annoys me and the other users with that bright green icon. These are not important announcements or anything approaching a level where you should be trying to grab every user’s attention.
@swinggraphics — That is fair feedback, especially on sites with multiple users.
Popup Maker notifications are currently limited to users who can manage popups, but that can still include several people on the same site. We agree that treating every notification and every dismissal identically is too broad.
We’re reviewing several improvements: distinguishing personal educational tips from site-wide notices, adding a way to dismiss informational notifications in bulk, and reserving the bright marker for items that genuinely warrant timely attention. Routine updates and lower-priority tips can use a more neutral treatment that better matches the WordPress admin menu.
We’re also adding an option to disable non-critical assistive notifications while continuing to show genuine configuration problems and errors.
If you can share which roles the other affected users have, that would still help us verify that the visibility boundary itself is working as intended.
