same here. I get the invalid email error message but not when its successful…
would be great if anyone knew why or a solution
Hi there,
@wendland99, do you have an URL to your website? Did you change anything in the form mark-up?
The email field HTML should be as follows.
<input type="email" name="EMAIL" required />
Especially the name="EMAIL" is important.
the site i’ve been trying it with is on this page: http://niners.davidwendland.com/tickets-newsletter.
But I started using the mailchimp widget that shows up in the column of other pages and the success works fine – just not when I enter the html form on a page.
I haven’t really changed anything that i’m aware of:
<!– Begin MailChimp Signup Form –>
<div id=”mc_embed_signup”><form id=”mc-embedded-subscribe-form” class=”validate” action=”loremipsum” method=”post” name=”mc-embedded-subscribe-form” novalidate=”” target=”_blank”>
<h2>Subscribe to get early access to upcoming 49ers Tickets:</h2>
<div class=”mc-field-group”><label for=”mce-EMAIL”>Email Address </label>
<input id=”mce-EMAIL” class=”required email” name=”EMAIL” type=”email” value=”” /></div>
<div id=”mce-responses” class=”clear”></div>
<!– real people should not fill this in and expect good things – do not remove this or risk form bot signups–>
<div style=”position: absolute; left: -5000px;”><input tabindex=”-1″ name=”b_facae0317058837daede55fe2_51e3a38407″ type=”text” value=”” /></div>
<div class=”clear”><input id=”mc-embedded-subscribe” class=”button” name=”subscribe” type=”submit” value=”Subscribe” /></div>
</form></div>
<script src=”//s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.mailchimp.com/js/mc-validate.js”></script><script>// <![CDATA[
(function($) {window.fnames = new Array(); window.ftypes = new Array();fnames[0]=’EMAIL’;ftypes[0]=’email’;fnames[1]=’FNAME’;ftypes[1]=’text’;fnames[2]=’LNAME’;ftypes[2]=’text’;}(jQuery));var $mcj = jQuery.noConflict(true);
// ]]></script>
<!–End mc_embed_signup–>
I believe I’m having the same issue on my form which (at this time) exists here: http://schuschein.com/wacdtf.org/?page_id=27
I have [mc4wp_form] in that page, and the form appears fine. However, when I submit the form — whether or not the address is already subscribed, I simply get redirected to my home URL.
Like Janell above, my “Redirect to URL” is kept blank, and the remainder of responses are kept as the default. I have not changed anything in the form markup.
Thanks,
Mike
Hi Mike,
In your case, it looks like the form action is incorrect. Most likely, setting a permalink structure in General > Permalinks can fix this. Another option is to add the following piece of PHP to your theme its functions.php file.
add_filter( 'mc4wp_form_action', '__return_empty_string' );
Hope that helps!
@wendland99,
It looks like you’re not using the MailChimp for WordPress plugin, you’re using the defauilt HTML embed code from MailChimp. I can’t help you with that unfortunately.
You should install the plugin and then use [mc4wp_form] to render a sign-up form in your pages.
Hope that helps!
Sorry, I went with another plug in after a few weeks of no reply. Marking as resolved.
Danny —
Changing to a Permalink structure solved the problem! Thank you so much!
Thanks Danny – thought I was using the plugin but guess i made a switch at some point and forgot.
I used [mailchimpsf_form] and its working – easy fix, thanks!
