Embed subscription form from email management service onto a wordpress.com blog?

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  katwhit · Member · Jan 3, 2014 at 4:00 pm

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  Is there a way to embed a contact form from my email management service onto my wordpress.com blog?

  I know that typically you need wordpress.org to do this, I was wondering if there was an easier solution than for me to completely re-host my blog.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Jan 4, 2014 at 12:08 am

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  Hi there,

  Can you tell me what service you are using?

  Thanks for the additional info!

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  katwhit · Member · Jan 4, 2014 at 12:09 am

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  Mailchimp – there is a plugin for wordpress.org, but when I try to embed the form into wordpress.com it erases segments of the code.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Jan 4, 2014 at 11:43 pm

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  Unfortunately, at WordPress.com, we don’t allow plugins or certain kinds of custom code, due to security and stability concerns. This is the tradeoff we make in order to keep the millions of sites we host running at top speed with virtually no downtime.

  For your site here on WordPress.com, if you want to use MailChimp, you can do so by creating a link to the signup form on hosted on MailChimp:
  http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-add-a-mailchimp-signup-form-to-your-wordpress-blog

  If you need to embed your form on your site directly, you’ll need to use your own hosting provider and install the free WordPress software at WordPress.org. If you are wondering how WordPress.com differs from WordPress.org, this support article explains the distinction: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  Hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any further questions.