{"id":800,"date":"2024-11-18T10:59:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T10:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/?page_id=800"},"modified":"2024-12-12T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T11:33:17","slug":"i-cant-see-the-popup-on-my-website-why","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/i-cant-see-the-popup-on-my-website-why\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t see the popup on my website : why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of reasons why your popup may not show up on your website sorted by likelihood (most likely first) :<\/p>\n<h3>It is not live<\/h3>\n<p>Your popup needs to be &#8220;live&#8221; to be shown. This can be changed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/dashboard\">&#8220;My Games&#8221;<\/a> using the following toggle (it it&#8217;s green, the popup is live) :<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-803\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/live-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/live-1.jpg 601w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/live-1-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>You&#8217;ve already seen it too often<\/h3>\n<p>In &#8220;Settings &gt; Display Rules&#8221;, there are rules to prevent one from seeing the popup too often (in red on the screenshot below) &#8230; and you&#8217;re not excluded from those rules!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/display-rules.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/display-rules.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/display-rules-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/display-rules-647x1024.jpg 647w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/display-rules-768x1216.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>You&#8217;ve already played<\/h3>\n<p>Also in the &#8220;Display Rules&#8221;, the default setting is to hide the popup to people who&#8217;ve already played (in purple on the screenshot above). Maybe you&#8217;re in that case.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip :<\/strong> for the 2 causes above, being considered as a new visitor would be useful to see the popup again. To do this, you can :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>open your store in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/1719851\/how-to-go-incognito-in-chrome-firefox-safari-and-edge.html\">a new private navigation window<\/a><\/strong> in your browser.<\/li>\n<li>or you can reset the cookies (<strong>be careful<\/strong>, this will reset the cookies for <strong>all the users<\/strong> and can&#8217;t be undone, so the app will consider that nobody has seen\/played the popup).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cookies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cookies.jpg 573w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cookies-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>You&#8217;ve set targeting rules<\/h3>\n<p>Also in the &#8220;Display Rules&#8221;, you can set targeting by country, cookie, page, etc. Make sure that you&#8217;re in the right conditions to see the popup.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/targeting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/targeting.jpg 395w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/targeting-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>You&#8217;re out of credits<\/h3>\n<p>Make sure that you still have credits (this can be checked in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/dashboard\">&#8220;My Games&#8221;<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/credits.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/credits.jpg 447w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/credits-300x92.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>SmashPops is not installed on your store<\/h3>\n<p>If SmashPops is not installed, the script to show a popup can not be loaded on your website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/installed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"658\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/installed.jpg 1056w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/installed-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/installed-1024x347.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/installed-768x260.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>You&#8217;re trying to load the popup on another website<\/h3>\n<p>This is <strong>unlikely if you installed our Shopify app<\/strong>, but if you try to load the script on coolwebsite.com while your account is set up for nicewebsite.com, the popup won&#8217;t load (this is done to prevent someone from loading your games on their website).<\/p>\n<p>If this happens, go to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Account<\/a>&#8221; and modify the URL of your website.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/my-account.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"885\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/my-account.jpg 1164w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/my-account-300x64.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/my-account-1024x220.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/my-account-768x165.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Cookies \/ local storage are disabled<\/h3>\n<p>If cookies or local storage (similar to cookies) are disabled, then our script won&#8217;t load. They are essential for us to be able to remember who played and who has seen the popup.<\/p>\n<h3>The app scripts are not loaded on your store<\/h3>\n<p>This is <strong>unlikely if you don&#8217;t have a custom theme<\/strong>. Sometimes, some themes try to change the default loading mechanism of the app scripts and make a mistake that prevent all the scripts from being loaded (all of them, not just SmashPops&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>This is a bit technical, but the default loading mechanism creates &#8220;script&#8221; tags with type=&#8221;text\/javascript&#8221;, sets their &#8220;src&#8221; to the right URL and does all of this on the &#8220;onload&#8221;\/&#8221;load&#8221; event.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/script.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1012\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/script.jpg 1665w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/script-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/script-1024x407.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/script-768x305.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.smashpops.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/script-1536x610.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as I said, this is only seen on a small number of websites and usually the theme developer can help you solve this (because it affects ALL your plugins, not just SmashPops).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In any case, we&#8217;re here to help : if you still can&#8217;t figure out why your popup is not showing, you can reach out to us at <a href=\"mailto:contact@smashpops.com\">contact@smashpops.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of reasons why your popup may not show up on your website sorted by likelihood (most likely first) : It is not live Your popup needs to be &#8220;live&#8221; to be shown. 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