At loss with simple comment box inside form

  • Resolved memomartin

    (@memomartin)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi, I had a form with Mailchimp for WP that would take First Name, Last Name, Email and subscription to a list that worked wonderful. That form was used in a widget and in a page with no problems.

    I needed to add a “Comments” field but the only way to get to the comments sent was to merge it to a field in mailchimp, so I thought I’d use Contact Form, send the same fields to the Mailchimp list and leave the comments without merging, that way, Contact Form will email me the comments, send the data to mailchimp and everybody would be happy.

    Theoretically, it works but I have not being able to style the [mc4wp_checkbox] anywhere (no matter what css property I add), AND the Submit button of the form loses its format when in a widget.

    I lost so much time trying to figure this out and my only solution would be if the original form made with Mailchimp for WP would be able to send an email somewhere (not in the form of a subscription added tot he list), and proceed to send data to Mailchimp.

    Does that exist?

    Thank you so much

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/

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  • Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi there,

    I would create a contact form with the comments box and other necessary fields and just include the following HTML for the (hidden) sign-up checkbox.

    <input type="hidden" name="mc4wp-subscribe" value="1" />

    To have other fields sent to MailChimp, just prefix their name attributes with mc4wp-. More info on this can be found in the FAQ.

    Make sure to state to your visitors that they’re subscribing though, as I am not sure about the opt-in laws in your country.

    Hope that helps!

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