Tab Teaser
Tab Teaser is a lightweight engagement plugin that pulls visitors back when they switch to another browser tab. The moment your tab loses focus, Tab Teaser swaps the page title and favicon to a custom, attention-grabbing message. When the visitor switches back, everything is restored instantly. It i
About this tool.
Tab Teaser is a lightweight engagement plugin that pulls visitors back when they switch to another browser tab. The moment your tab loses focus, Tab Teaser swaps the page title and favicon to a custom, attention-grabbing message. When the visitor switches back, everything is restored instantly.
It is especially effective on cart, checkout, signup, and long-form sales pages where every distracted visitor matters.
What it does (and doesn’t)
Tab Teaser is scoped on purpose. WordPress already owns your normal page title and favicon — the plugin doesn’t touch them. It only steps in once the visitor switches to another tab, and steps right back out when they return. That focused scope is what keeps the settings short, the frontend payload tiny, and the plugin friction-free to install alongside any theme or page-builder.
Key features
- Custom inactive title — show any message (emoji supported) when the visitor leaves the tab.
- Two flashing modes — Use site title + Site Icon alternates your inactive pair with the page’s normal title and favicon. Use a custom alternative pair alternates between two plugin-managed pairs (your inactive title/favicon ↔ a configurable Flash title/Flash favicon) so you can rotate two distinct messages.
- Trigger delay — wait N seconds after the tab is hidden before swapping. Visitors who tab back in time never see the change.
- 12 bundled SVG favicons — hand-crafted icons (Alert, Shopping Cart, Raised Hand, Bell, Fire, Broken Heart, Googly Eyes, Watching Eye, New Message, Clock, Gift, Sparkle) ship with the plugin, each in paired light + dark variants. Crisp at every size, zero HTTP overhead.
- Light / dark theme aware — the plugin detects the visitor’s OS color-scheme preference and picks the matching favicon variant automatically, updating live if the visitor toggles their theme. You can also upload your own light and dark inactive / flash favicon.
- Custom favicon upload — pick any image (PNG, JPG, ICO, SVG) from the WordPress Media Library.
- Live preview — see exactly how your tab will look as you edit settings. Includes a “Simulate Tab Switch” button.
- Rich page targeting — run on every page, on selected pages / posts / custom post types / taxonomy terms, or on URL patterns ( /checkout/* ). Independent exclude rules always win over includes.
