Email Subscription Form
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I am trying to build a page for subscriptions to my blog. I would like the email subscriptions option to show up as a form with input fields. Using the blog sidebar widget, I derived the below HTML code that the source uses. However, this code doesn’t seem to work on a page. What needs to be changed here for this to work?
<form action=”http://subscribe.wordpress.com” method=”post” accept-charset=”utf-8″ id=”subscribe-blog”>
<p><input type=”text” name=”email” style=”width: 95%; padding: 1px 2px” value=”” id=”subscribe-field”/></p><input type=”hidden” name=”action” value=”subscribe”/>
<input type=”hidden” name=”blog_id” value=”19085371″/>
<input type=”hidden” name=”source” value=”http://nesteggblog.wordpress.com/”/>
<input type=”hidden” name=”sub-type” value=”widget”/><input type=”hidden” id=”_wpnonce” name=”_wpnonce” value=”ad6b232d07″ /><input type=”hidden” name=”_wp_http_referer” value=”/” />
<p><input type=”submit” value=”Sign me up!” /></p>
</form>The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You can’t make it work. This type of HTML is stripped off. Read for more info:
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You can’t use forms on wordpress.com. See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/ and http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/
You can direct your readers to your widget in your sidebar. (Putting it toward the top of the page might not be a bad idea if you think people aren’t seeing it where it is.) Many people also prefer to subscribe via RSS, so you might consider adding that option.
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@dbfinance
You have posted this thread into the CSS Forum and the question is not one that pertains to CSS. If you are referring to a free blog being free hosted by WordPress.com you can enable email blog subscriptions on your blog by following the instructions found here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscriptions/ and here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/blog-subscription-widget/ -
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dbfinance.wordpress.com is no longer available.The authors have deleted this blog.
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Thanks for the links. I do see that forms are prohibited, but I was able to get a contact form by using the below code:
[contact-form]
[contact-field label="Your Name" type="name" /]
[contact-field label="Your Email Address" type="email" /]
[contact-field label="Message" type="textarea" /]
[/contact-form]I was just wondering if there is something similar for subscriptions
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We cannot give you any guidance without the specific URL of the blog you’re doing this on.
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@dbfinance
Please post an active link to the blog you are referring to starting with http:// -
@timethief – The blog was deleted after I’d already looked at it once — went back, and *poof!* Deleted by authors.
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My blog address is http://nesteggblog.wordpress.com/
The page I am referring to with the contact form is http://nesteggblog.wordpress.com/contact/
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@dbfinance
Thanks for posting that. We were wondering if you had disappeared like the blog did. These entries lay out how to enable email subscriptions on your blog > http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscriptions/ and here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/blog-subscription-widget/ -
The contact form uses shortcode. There is no equivalent for email subscriptions. As far as I know, there’s only the widget. You can put links to your rss feeds in a post or page, though.
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I clearly understood your question and I’m sorry I did not make that clear. There is no shortcode for subscriptions.
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After searching for over an hour I’d like to ask –
Is there a setting or an email address I can give to the readers/audience – to which they can email and it automatically begins/sets up/starts their subscription?
Or only way they can do is by using the Subscription Widget?
Some users would really prefer if they did not have to log on to the website at work or something but still be able to send an email to subscribe to the blog.
Please advice.
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@dbfinance, they have the email subscription widget. I would think it unlikely that they will turn that into a shortcode like the contact form.
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@theurbanmeninc- tt has listed the available option above. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-subscription-form?replies=17#post-621876
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thanks JustJennifer :-)
I don’t think my question was clear … I am trying to ask – isnt there a way where one could send a direct email to – lets say ‘(email visible only to moderators and staff)’ and it automatically results in user being added as subscribed – instead of them having to go to a website?
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