Text widget trouble
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Hi,
I have an organic theme: photographer. I want to add a widget with a sign up form for our newsletter. I use mailchimp. I have the embedded code which I copy into the text field in my widgets dashboard administrator. But it does not work. I have no idea what I am doing wrong! Supposedly mailchimp and wordpress.com work together, I followed all the steps. Can anybody help me with this!
Thanks a billion!
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Hi, @suferreri,
I have connected MailChimp to my site. It works well. There are two ways link your MailChimp subscriber form on your site:
1) There is a specific widget(not text) to create a subscriber pop-up form for your site, which is one way to go. It is called the MailChimp Subscriber Pop-Up:
You may have already visited this but here is the link to the WordPress.com MailChimp support page→ https://en.support.wordpress.com/mailchimp/2)For putting a link on your sidebar, you want to skip the embed code and just put a link to the subscriber form. Does that make sense?
Embedding the form doesn’t work in a widget but the text link works great. So does the pop-up form. :)
Let me know how this works for you.
Happy Blogging.
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Hi happyathometoday,
Thanks for the fast reply!
The pop up only works with wordpress business, I have the free version so I guess that one is out since I do not have the money to upgrade.
The mail chimp site actually tells to use the text widget so the form appears on my website instead of being a link directed to another site. I would prefer to have the form on my own website. I was looking at it here:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/ultimate-guide-to-using-mailchimp-and-wordpress/
Do you have any other ideas?
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Hmmm… I had the subscriber Pop-Up form when my site was free. And I still see it on my free site, as available. Check your widget options again.
As I think you are totally fine to have that here.
I will respond to part two in a sec.
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As for the article you reference, my guess is that was written assuming you have a WordPress.org install.
Being on WordPress.com, you aren’t able to embed just any code, so that is issue with the linked article. The embed code could be stripped, see:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/Did you get to try the subscriber pop-up form? I think it will work for you and with that and the link on the side, it is a nice option.
:)
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Thank you for the tip! Actually I didn’t see the subscriber one, I managed to do it now. But I want the pop up to happen and on the post sidebar, and on the page sidebar, and on the home page. Do you think this is possible?
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Hi, @suferreri,
Great, that you got the pop-up! I took a look, and for what it is worth, I clicked through b/c the photos on your homepage are gorgeous and I wanted to learn more (and got the pop-up), so, not having it there could be a nice way to automatically qualify people who sign up for your list. I’m a firm believer in 5 truly interested people are better than 500 who don’t really care...but that is just my opinion. :)
So, I don’t have time to check your theme, but if it doesn’t have a spot to add a widget on the page , that will be tough.
Usually one pop-up is enough, or you will annoy your visitors, anyway. :)
If you do the pop-up and the link, you should be in good shape. A way I used to do this years ago is that I would put the link to the form at the bottom of pages… or use a custom image that links to the form (inviting them to sign up).
I hope that helps.
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Hi happyathometoday!
Yes, so I suspected that if I put the same pop up in three different places it just acts independently. That makes sense. I will leave it where it is :).
I am going to try to get a form also as a link as you suggested. So you say I should be able to add a widget that is a link right?
Thank you so much fro helping out!
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You are welcome.
Yes, you grab the link to the form, and use a either a text widget or an image widget on your site. Link them to the form and you should be good to go. You can link the image to a url when you upload it.
Let me know how it goes.
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the url to the form in MailChimp. You can grab that from your browser (safari) bar for sure.
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I copy pasted the url in the text widget at my blog page sidebar and posts sidebar. But you only see the url, you cannot even click on it…. Am I doing something wrong??
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So, sorry, it took me so long to respond – out and about, today. :)
You are almost there. :)Since I know you can get to the text widget, open that up/create it.
Type whatever you want your visitors to see “Click here to subscribe” kind of thing. Highlight the text that you want to be clickable and then click the link icon. Put your url/link in there.
Here is a support document about it.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/links/Hope that helps!
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