How to edit blog subscription short code

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  pauldellis · Member · May 14, 2015 at 4:05 am

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  Borrowing from a Jetpack idea, I have discovered that it is possible to edit the [blog_subscription_form] short code to show total subscribers and change the title and text in the button. BUT what am I doing wrong below to add custom text:

  [blog_subscription_form title=”Follow E2R by Email” subscribe_text='My custom text” subscribe_button='Sign Me Up' show_subscribers_total='1']

  Everything works except for the ‘My custom text’ part.

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  siobhyb · Member · May 14, 2015 at 9:44 am

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  Hi Paul.

  Good catch! I found that the subscribe_text attribute wasn’t working with the shortcode on my test either. I’ve gone ahead to report this back to our team, and I’ll let you know what I hear back.

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  lance · Staff · May 22, 2015 at 10:47 pm

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  Hi Paul,
  In the shortcode example you have a double curly quote after “My custom text” — try it with a single quote instead, it should work correctly.

  Cheers,
  Lance

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  pauldellis · Member · May 25, 2015 at 8:39 pm

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  Thanks Lance,

  I have since discovered it also works with double quotes. The reason it didn’t work in my original example was I mixed a single quote with a double quote mark on the ‘My custom text” bit. So we’re all here because I can’t type properly!

  Apologies for the inconvenience. But I hope others find the short code adaptations useful.