subscriber popup form questions

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    aiirconsulting · Member ·

    Hi,
    I’m looking for a way to enhance our subscriber base. I was just on a blog called http://firstround.com/. You’ll notice a popup subscriber form immediately. I then traced that form to mailchimp, which we have an account with, and they have this option: http://mailchimp.com/features/custom-forms/

    The big question I have now is how? Is it possible for me to add something like this to my wordpress.com site, or is this only something that can be done in wordpress.org?

    Any assistance, even if it is an alternate resource than the mailchimp functionality, would be most appreciated.

    Thank you,
    Jonathan

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    Hi there,

    You cannot add a subscription pop-up of any kind to a WordPress.COM hosted blog.

    There is no FTP access and no blogger plugin installation capability on blogs hosted by WordPress.COM. Those are only possible on a WordPress.ORG software install. Read the differences here https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    If you want to use MailChimp with your WordPress.com site right now you can do so by creating a link to the signup form on MailChimp and providing it to your visitors. Here’s the info from MailChimp Support http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-add-a-mailchimp-signup-form-to-your-wordpress-blog

    There is also no mass mailing feature here at WordPress.com. Your followers can subscribe to receive your posts by email and they alone 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 as I already posted above.

    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/

    We have a subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.

    Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/

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    aiirconsulting · Member ·

    Thank you so much! This is incredibely helpful to know.
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    Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004o: (215) 337-4939 | m: (314) 503-6791

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