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title: How to use the Popup widget?
description: Set up and customize popups to display announcements, promotions, or forms on your website
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# How to use the Popup widget?

## Set up and customize popups to display announcements and sign-up forms

1\. A popup widget is a small window or box that appears on top of the content you are viewing.

It is typically used to grab visitors attention for things like announcements and sign-up forms. Popups can be triggered by different actions, such as scrolling down the page or spending a certain amount of time on the website. Drag and drop the popup widget on the page.

![](https://ajeuwbhvhr.cloudimg.io/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2024-08-10/b4bebdf1-58f6-4351-b60e-906af28c850f/ascreenshot.jpeg?tl_px=0,163&br_px=859,644&force_format=jpeg&q=100&width=860&wat_scale=76&wat=1&wat_opacity=0.7&wat_gravity=northwest&wat_url=https://colony-recorder.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/images/watermarks/FB923C_standard.png&wat_pad=33,212)

2\. Select the Popup widget to edit the Settings described in Step 3 and further

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3\. Select a popup that should open with the Popup widget. If you don't have a popup yet, you can create one in the [Pages - Popups section](https://success.ministrydesigns.help/how-to-create-a-new-popup)

![](https://ajeuwbhvhr.cloudimg.io/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2024-08-10/b5652abf-3237-42e2-9684-36ba432a5f31/ascreenshot.jpeg?tl_px=1060,54&br_px=1920,535&force_format=jpeg&q=100&width=860&wat_scale=76&wat=1&wat_opacity=0.7&wat_gravity=northwest&wat_url=https://colony-recorder.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/images/watermarks/FB923C_standard.png&wat_pad=674,212)

4\. Specify the appearance condition for a popup. The following conditions are available:

**Over Time** - the popup will appear after a specified delay

**Placement** - the popup will appear when the user scrolls to the section where the popup is located

![](https://ajeuwbhvhr.cloudimg.io/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2024-08-10/2606a645-b0b2-4b01-bf2c-18f7a0cca0a4/ascreenshot.jpeg?tl_px=1060,136&br_px=1920,617&force_format=jpeg&q=100&width=860&wat_scale=76&wat=1&wat_opacity=0.7&wat_gravity=northwest&wat_url=https://colony-recorder.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/images/watermarks/FB923C_standard.png&wat_pad=677,212)

5\. Set the delay for the Over Time appearance condition

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6\. Specify the recurrence condition for the popup. The following options are available:

**Once per Session** - the popup will reoccur only once if your browser is open. If you close the browser and open it again with your website, it will appear again per a browser Session

**Fixed Amount of Times** - the popup will reoccur only a specific number of times. The max value for a fixed amount is 10

**Over Time** - set days and hours for popups to reoccur. The maximum amount of days can be set to 365, and hours can be set to 23 hours, respectively

**Always** - the popup will appear every time the page is visited again or reloaded.

![](https://ajeuwbhvhr.cloudimg.io/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2024-08-10/445bcf9b-cdc6-4952-8b08-91f57fb68992/ascreenshot.jpeg?tl_px=1060,325&br_px=1920,806&force_format=jpeg&q=100&width=860&wat_scale=76&wat=1&wat_opacity=0.7&wat_gravity=northwest&wat_url=https://colony-recorder.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/images/watermarks/FB923C_standard.png&wat_pad=697,212)

7\. Click "Save" to confirm the changes

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