Email subscription form on outside site
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I’m building a web site for a client who also has a hosted WordPress.com blog, and she’d like her RSS subscription info to appear on her regular site as well as the blog. The regular RSS link is no problem, of course, but I’m having trouble getting the email subscription form to successfully submit an email address to WordPress.com.
The error I’m seeing is “Your subscription did not succeed, please try again with a valid email address.”, which makes no sense, as the email address entered is fine. The problem actually seems to lie with the hidden “_wpnonce” field used in the subscription form. My form works fine if I copy the value from the WP.com blog, but for a limited time, as this value changes periodically, rendering my form useless in short order.
So my question is, is there no way to use this email subscription form on an outside web site? Is there another method of allowing email subscriptions in this way?
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The blog subscription form will only work on WordPress.com blogs.
For question regarding self-hosted WordPress (.org) site, please visit:
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Thanks, but this isn’t about a self-hosted WP installation. I’m trying to allow readers to subscribe to the email subscription functionality on our WP.com site, while the form resides on a regular, non-WP web site elsewhere. So they read the site, then subscribe to the blog without having to come to WP.com first.
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Using your own form code is not allowed on WordPress.com.
Could you try linking to the external page with the form on it instead?
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The form will not reside on WP.com — the form will reside on our regular web site and submit the email address to WP.com.
In any case, I think we’re just going to use Feedburner instead.
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