Mailchimp set-up
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I am having the darndest time trying to get mail-chimp to work. I tried pasting the code in the box on the left pane and, nothing I tried pasting the code directly in the html and I get the code showing on my page.
I have a similar problem pasting my novel ad from smashwords. I paste the code in the space I want it and click its preview tab and it looks and works fine. I save the page and see the preview or live page and it is also code on my page.
Back to mail chimp. I was reading their instructions and it sounded to me that for mail chimp to work, I must open another website (and possibly a third it I want to sell from the site) and use the mail-chimp code on the second site, somehow linking the sites together. Is this correct? Am I interpreting the instructions correctly? Is it also correct that I open a third site for selling? They all link together as if one site to a visitor on my website? Will wordPress let me open three sites and can I use the same info or do I need remember three names and logins, the emails? I don’t want to go through all that if it won’t work. If it will and that’s what needs to be done, then okay.
Thanks in advance.
Brian- The Christ, Born in the U.S.Today https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/993093
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I just found a draft page I forgot about. It has this on it.
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Does this look like the mailchimp set up. Ill add a link here if it will show a draft page. I tried sending myself an email, but no luck receiving it so far. Perhaps this is why I left it as a draft page.https://wordpress.com/block-editor/page/goobersgangbooks.wordpress.com/2
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Luckily for me, publishing the page worked. I sent myself emails. Yay.
Now to set up a way for people to purchase books and eBooks. Anyone have any good or poor experience with any of the choices? I don’t want to use anything involving pay pal. I would appreciate any tips. In fact, if anyone reading is proficient enough to walk me through setting everything up so I can charge people through their credit/debit card and also send them various versions of E-book format (can this be done in a way people cannot share. I do have ISBNs for both paperback and eBook) I would be happy to send you a signed paperback. This book is destined to be a movie and the book could be valuable one day. I have a few limited ones with the wrong cover which would make them more valuable. I would offer more, but I am disabled in a physical rehab facility, so My disability payments go to them. My WordPress website confirms this.
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Hi there, it looks like you’ve already sorted out the Mailchimp issue, but for what it’s worth we have this:
And this:
About selling e-books:
Luckily for me, publishing the page worked. I sent myself emails. Yay.
Now to set up a way for people to purchase books and eBooks. Anyone have any good or poor experience with any of the choices?
Our recommendation for that is WooCommerce, though there’s no way to do that on our free hosting. You’d need a Business Plan here (which comes with hosting, SSL, support, and maintenance). Or, you can run your own copy of WordPress with another host. If you decide to go the WooCommerce route, this may help:
https://woocommerce.com/posts/sell-digital-with-woocommerce/Or, if you want to ask about other possible plugin recommendations, try asking over at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/ . Those are the forums for folks running their own copies of WordPress. Since we aren’t maintaining sites for them, like the free sites here, they can run whatever plugins they want. (And if that’s at all confusing, see http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ ) So they might have more recommendations. Hoping that helps!
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Hi. I am reading the instructions and following along. I have come to a part that stumps me. First, the very top where it says, Join our mailing list. Just under that, in editing mode, it tells me there is a problem with the html code.
So, I am trying on another page. (can the form be added to multiple pages on my site?
I get to the List fields and *|Merge|* tags part of the instructions. Where do I find these settings? I can’t find them on the page. I see no setting on the right or in any of the setting on the left
I tried to send myself an email, but, although it said success, nothing came, so I’m thinking that finding these settings is important. -
The form can be added to multiple pages.
Will you include the form code here? You can wrap it in back-ticks or use the “code” button so we’ll be able to see all of the code.
Please also send a link to the page you’re working on so we can see what you see.
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form code?
In this case, we’re referring to what you added for:
Just under that, in editing mode, it tells me there is a problem with the html code.
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