Help with Email Subscription via Feedburner
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Hello all.
I have followed the instructions available in many places on the net for setting up an email subscription button on WordPress.
I created my feedburner account, activated email subscription under ‘Publicize’, and got my little nugget of code.
The issue seems to be, when I plug the full code into a text box and save it, it will shorten itself, and the result is a non-working widget.
The full code is:
<form style=”border:1px solid #ccc;padding:3px;text-align:center;” action=”http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify” method=”post” target=”popupwindow” onsubmit=”window.open(‘http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=SoAustin’, ‘popupwindow’, ‘scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520’);return true”>
Enter your email address:
Delivered by FeedBurner
After clicking save, I end up with:
<p>Enter your email address:</p><p></p><p>Delivered by FeedBurner</p>
The result on the website is simply text and a link like so:
-Enter your email address:
-Delivered by FeedBurner
There is nowhere to enter an email address & nothing to click (except through to the Feedburner homepage)
Any help appreciated.
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You cannot use that code because it is a “form” and forms are not allowed here due to security concerns.
See this support document on how to add a feedburner email subscription thing here: http://support.wordpress.com/email-subscriptions/ .
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Hey thanks for the quick reply. Those are the actually precise instructions that I followed…When I paste that code in, it gets shortened, and then the result is a non-working block on the blog.
Here are some screenshots to illustrate the issue:
http://picasaweb.google.com/samhiggins/Wordpress?authkey=Gv1sRgCK6m-NP3s52MxAE&feat=directlink
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The code you are copying is the wrong code. That is the form code. You want to use the code that is below the “Preview Subscription Link…” link lower down on the email subscriptions page. It will start out like this:
<a href= -
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I’m having the exact same problem and did the exact solution you suggested. I still don’t get an email subscription box, but a link for the user to click on which then takes the user to a new page where they can subscribe. Is that correct or am I missing something. Thanks in advance.
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So the bottom line seems to be that we can offer readers a link, but we cannot offer readers an email subscription, right?
I’m taking that from the answers above, because
* if you use the instructions given by WordPress on how to set up a Feedburner feed for an email subscription
* you get code that doesn’t work
* and the answer here is that this code uses forms
* which are not permitted here
* and the workaround is to offer a link.So it would help to avoid confusion if WordPress didn’t give us instructions on how to offer readers an email subscription that it is aware do not work.
Right? Or am I missing something?
Many thanks for the answer here, by the way. I’m *not* complaining, just want to get this straight in my mind. I had the same problem: I followed the instructions and it did not work. If the answer “it doesn’t work because it’s doing something illegal here” hadn’t been posted here, I’d be tearing my hair out!
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OH! OH! OH! Ignore previous. Colour me clueless. We don’t get the email subscription facility, because that uses forms, but the instructions are correct as written.
Phew. Apologies.
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@zumbacontracosta Yes, that is correct. That is the workaround for here at WP.com, because you can’t embed the form directly.
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