iContact Sign Up form to WP.COM

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  lucidnyc · Member · Jul 21, 2009 at 10:19 pm

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  I am using Hemmingway template on a .com site. Icontact (my email service) gives a html code to produce a sign up form for my mailing list, but the code doesn’t produce a button when I enter it into the html field of a post or page on WP.
  I’ve searched the forums a bit and it appears as though WP doesn’t allow sign up forms on .com for some security reason, but I thought I’d be extra sure. Is there a way around this?
  There is a widget to do this, but it seems like it’s only for .org site.
  Any advice out there?
  Thanks
  David

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  bubel · Staff · Jul 21, 2009 at 10:22 pm

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  External forms will not work here on WordPress.com; currently, you can only use our Contact Form – http://support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

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  lucidnyc · Member · Jul 22, 2009 at 2:52 pm

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  Thanks for response. I put the code first into the rich editor and then into HTML view. The former did nothing (just showed the bracketed “contact-form”) and the latter created a big text box without the email or name fields. Any thoughts?
  A couple related questions?
  1. If in fact I can get the contact form onto the site, is there a way of doing it without the big, garish text box?
  2. If I upgrade to custom CSS can I plug in the icontact code somewhere?
  Thanks again.
  David

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  lucidnyc · Member · Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 pm

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  Okay, I realized why the name and email fields weren’t appearing. But I’d still like to know if it’s possible to do it without the humongous box. Thanks.
  David

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  husdal · Member · Jul 22, 2009 at 3:09 pm

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  The big garish text box is so that people can write you a message. What’s the use of a contact form without it? And it should be possible to tweak the size of the contact from with custom CSS.

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  bubel · Staff · Jul 22, 2009 at 3:15 pm

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  Yes, you can customize the appearance of the form with the Custom CSS Upgrade, but the upgrade will not allow you to embed the icontact code.

  Custom CSS

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  lucidnyc · Member · Jul 22, 2009 at 3:21 pm

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  Thanks guys for you speedy replies.
  The reason I call it garish is because I just want to use the contact form to supply my mailing list. The comments are unimportant.
  I guess if I used a WordPress.org set-up I could install widgets and whatever I choose. Might have to go that direction.
  Thanks so much.
  David