Mailerlite Popup on a WordPress.com Site

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    kjfarnham · Member ·

    I’m switching from MailChimp to Mailerlite and have run into an issue with the newsletter popup. Back when I set up the one for MailChimp, a happiness engineer assisted so I requested help converting it to a popup for my Mailerlite newsletter. The engineer said he couldn’t help and I needed to contact Mailerlite. I did so, and this was their response:

    …Unfortunately we don’t offer a solution for wordpress.com sites right now, so I recommend you to either upgrade to the WordPress plan that allows for plugins (so you can use our Mailerlite plugin for WordPress), or to transfer to wordpress.org, which allows for much more customization…

    I’m not at a point where the cost of upgrading my account makes sense, but before I accept this, I thought I’d check here to see if anyone can help because every issue I’ve ever posted here has been resolved.

    The only instructions Mailerlite offers for adding a popup is this:

    Install the following snippet of Javascript on every page of your website right before the closing </head> tag.

    You only need to add this snippet once, even if you plan to have a few different webforms.

    And then this Javascript code:

    <!– MailerLite Universal –>

    (function(m,a,i,l,e,r){ m[‘MailerLiteObject’]=e;function f(){
    var c={ a:arguments,q:[]};var r=this.push(c);return “number”!=typeof r?r:f.bind(c.q);}
    f.q=f.q||[];m[e]=m[e]||f.bind(f.q);m[e].q=m[e].q||f.q;r=a.createElement(i);
    var _=a.getElementsByTagName(i)[0];r.async=1;r.src=l+’?v’+(~~(new Date().getTime()/1000000));
    _.parentNode.insertBefore(r,_);})(window, document, ‘script’, ‘https://static.mailerlite.com/js/universal.js’, ‘ml’);

    var ml_account = ml(‘accounts’, ‘828693’, ‘o2c7v5x8d4’, ‘load’);

    <!– End MailerLite Universal –>

    I’d be so grateful if someone could help make this work.

    ~KJ

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    It may be that you could use Jotform or Wufoo forms to add a Mailerlite to a text widget in a widget area, but I do not know of anyway to do the popup since it would require code that is not allowed here unless you have the Business Plan. You would have to check with Mailerlite to see if they can integrate with either Jotform or Wufoo.

    The other possibility is to link from a text widget in a widget area to the form at Mailerlite.

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