{"id":11038,"date":"2019-11-17T23:58:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T04:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/?post_type=optinmonster_docs&#038;p=11038"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:21:22","slug":"how-to-hide-optinmonster-from-existing-newsletter-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"optinmonster_docs","link":"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/docs\/how-to-hide-optinmonster-from-existing-newsletter-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Hide OptinMonster from Existing Newsletter Subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OptinMonster makes it easy to hide campaigns from existing newsletter subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this article, you&#8217;ll learn how to hide campaigns from visitors who have already subscribed to your email newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Before You Start<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some things to know before you begin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This article assumes that subscribers are reaching your website through a link in an email you&#8217;ve sent them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hide Campaigns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To hide campaigns from existing newsletter subscribers, follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OI4LtmUqz3Y?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First, set Global Cookies for the site your campaigns display on <a href=\"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/docs\/how-optin-cookies-and-the-global-cookie-work-in-optinmonster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">following our documentation<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Next, you&#8217;ll edit all links that point to your website in the email newsletter you send to subscribers to add the query argument to the end of the URL&nbsp;<strong><strong>?omhide=true<\/strong><\/strong>For example:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>    https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/how-it-works\/<strong>?omhide=true<\/strong><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"faq\">Troubleshooting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how\">How does this work exactly?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The query argument added to the URL will tell OptinMonster to set a global cookie in the visitor&#8217;s browser to hide campaigns for as long as the Global Cookie is set to last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"troubleshooting\">I&#8217;ve added this to my URL but my campaign is still loading, why?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Check that you&#8217;ve set <a href=\"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/docs\/how-optin-cookies-and-the-global-cookie-work-in-optinmonster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Global Cookie<\/a> values greater than zero (0) for the site the campaigns are showing on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Refer to the chart below to see how the global cookie settings affect the use of the <code>?omhide=true<\/code> query string:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>Success Cookie Duration<\/th><th>Interaction Cookie Duration<\/th><th>Result<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>0<\/td><td>0<\/td><td>campaigns hide for the user&#8217;s <a title=\"How Session Cookies Work per Web Browser\" href=\"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/docs\/how-optin-cookies-and-the-global-cookie-work-in-optinmonster\/#faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">browser session<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>30<\/td><td>0<\/td><td>success cookie is set, campaigns don&#8217;t show for 30 days<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>0<\/td><td>15<\/td><td>interaction cookie is set, campaigns don&#8217;t show for 15 days<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>30<\/td><td>15<\/td><td>success cookie is set, interaction cookie is set, campaigns don&#8217;t show for 30 days<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OptinMonster makes it easy to hide campaigns from existing newsletter subscribers. In this article, you&#8217;ll learn how to hide campaigns from visitors who have already subscribed to your email newsletter. Before You Start Here are some things to know before you begin: Hide Campaigns To hide campaigns from existing newsletter subscribers, follow these steps: Troubleshooting&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","documentation\/categories":[28201],"documentation\/tags":[31432,31401],"class_list":["post-11038","optinmonster_docs","type-optinmonster_docs","status-publish","hentry","categories-display-rules"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentation\/11038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentation"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/optinmonster_docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11038"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentation\/11038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198024,"href":"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentation\/11038\/revisions\/198024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentation\/categories?post=11038"},{"taxonomy":"internal_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optinmonster.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentation\/tags?post=11038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}