Pop Up Email Capture

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  findthepieces · Member · Jun 17, 2015 at 2:44 am

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  Capture emails with a pop up on the home page plug in would be great!

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

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  dinsanwp · Member · Jun 17, 2015 at 5:53 am

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  Hi,

  I visited your website and I can see a subscription box. Have you figured this out already?

  More information is available here.

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  findthepieces · Member · Jun 17, 2015 at 12:36 pm

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  I just put code for a form on that page in the interim. I was looking for more of a pop up thing so I wouldn’t have to change the content I had on there.

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  absalomhouse · Member · Jun 18, 2015 at 7:04 pm

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  Good Afternoon, I second that. Its would be helpful.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 18, 2015 at 7:37 pm

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  There are no subscription pop-ups here at wordpress.COM and I’m happy with that. To me nothing is more annoying than having an arrogant blogger install one of the ubiquitous in your face subscription box pop-ups that displays before I have even read a post fully, let alone allowing me the time to explore the entire blog to ascertain whether or not I wish to subscribe.

  There is no such mass mailing feature here at WordPress.com. Your followers can subscribe to receive your posts by email and they can control the frequency of receipt. You cannot subscribe for them or control the frequency of receipt of your posts by them.

  IMPORTANT Note: When followers or commenters provide an email address for a specific purpose you cannot use it for any other purpose. In fact doing that in Canada is against the law.

  You can create a Subscribe page and clearly state on it that you intend to harvest email addresses if that’s what you want to do. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  You can add and customize a contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard on that page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  You can create a sign up page on MailChimp directly and simply link to it from your WordPress.com site. Here’s their instructions http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-add-a-mailchimp-signup-form-to-your-wordpress-blog

  Additional information:
  You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widgets by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  If you would like a follow button to appear on the bottom right hand corner of your site for those who do not have WordPress.com accounts go to > Settings > Reading and scroll down to Follower Settings:

  These settings change emails sent from your blog to followers.
  Logged out users __ Show follow button to logged out users.

  Checking this will present a follow button to logged out users in the bottom corner of their screen.

  See also http://en.support.wordpress.com/follow-button/