PersonalizeWP offers powerful personalization rules as part of it’s feature-set that allow you to show and hide content based on who they are, where they have come from and their behavoiurs and actions on your site.
By using personalization, you can create a more engaging and relevant user experience by tailoring content, recommendations, and interactions to individual preferences. This leads to increased user satisfaction and retention.
How does a Time on Current Page Rule help?
Capturing the user’s attention can be a way of preventing them from leaving your site, showing them an offer to nudge them into making a purchase, or a device to capture their email address to add to your mailing list.
It is a common UX pattern to show a pop-up to users when they have been inactive for a period of time – with PersonalizeWP you can show a pop-up, or for improved accessibility inject a new block into the page that they are viewing (so that it works for users that are blocking pop-ups).
Creating Time on Current Page Based Rules
You can access PersonalizeWP’s personalization rule tools by going to WP-Admin > Personalize > Dashboard > Personalization.
On this screen, you can view a paginated list of all rules currently active and inactive, and an optional view by category.
Create Rule
Clicking on Create Rule takes you to the screen where you can create a new personalization rule. You enter a name for your rule, select the category you want to place it in, and then choose Conditions > Time on Current Page In from the dropdown.
Next, you can select the comparator, which for this rule type offers the options:
- Is
Finally, you can choose a time from the value field:
- 5 seconds
- 10 seconds
- 15 seconds
- 30 seconds
- 1 min
- 2 mins
- 3 mins
- 4 mins
- 5 mins
- 10 mins
- 15 mins
- 20 mins
- 30 mins
- 45 mins
- 1 hour
Click on the button to Create Rule and return to the list screen.
Using Time on Current Page Based Rules
You can choose a rule in the Personalize sidebar for any block that you can selected in the Block Editor.
Rules has it’s own dropdown, and you can select any of the rules that are active. In this instance, select your chosen new visitor-based rule and then determine the behaviour for that block (show/hide) if the visitor meets that criteria.
If you wish, you can add multiple rules to the same block, even those of a different type and category – for instance, new visitor and location.
You can also combine a personalization rule with segments and lead score values to create highly targeted content.
