Mailchimp integration – buggy confirmation forms

  • Resolved Make and Do Crew

    (@make-and-do-crew)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    I am using the “naked” mailchimp form and embedding the form action. When an email address is submitted, the form that is displayed on the followup page is not correct. It’s missing the checkboxes I’m using to segment my subscribers. Instead a thank you form that only shows my mailing address shows up.

    The only time I can get the correct form, with the boxes, to show is when I’m getting an error message (like that I’ve submitted the same email address too many times in a row.)

    When I try using a different plugin (Mailchimp for WP), all the correct elements appear as part of the form. It’s just ugly as hell, so I’d really prefer to use this plugin.

    Thanks for any advice.

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  • Plugin Author Brandon Kraft

    (@kraftbj)

    Code Wrangler

    8 years, 5 months ago

    With the “hidden” fields, you can add checkboxes and things of that sort to match the same fields as the native MailChimp form. I don’t see an example with the checkboxes to steer you in the right direction.

    It is a bit of a pain (though for me personally, doing that was less of a pain than trying to style their native form!)

    Cheers,

    Thread Starter Make and Do Crew

    (@make-and-do-crew)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hey Brandon. Thanks so much for the response. I’m a little confused still.

    I’m new to Mailchimp and your plugin, so thanks in advance for spelling it out for me.

    Are you referring to the hidden fields in Mailchimp? If so, why would I make my existing checkboxes hidden if I want users to be able to check them?

    (To clarify, I have set up my form with checkboxes, but they aren’t appearing on the subscription confirmation page unless it’s serving up an error message, like that you’ve tried the same email address too many times.)

    Can you give me a little more direction on how you think I could proceed from here in order to create a form with two segmentation options?
    Thanks again!

    Plugin Author Brandon Kraft

    (@kraftbj)

    Code Wrangler

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Howdy,

    The Hidden Fields within the widget.

    Via MailChimp, via the embeddable sign-up form, the checkboxes will be in the code like this:

    Screen Shot

    Paste it into the hidden fields. It’ll strip out everything but the form elements, generally speaking: https://cloudup.com/cZtcEKH2rtv

    It’ll output along these lines: https://cloudup.com/cde_iNXEQAX

    If you run into any issues, let me know. This isn’t an area a ton of people have used (and told me about at least), so if there are things you want to do, but can’t, happy to check it out.

    Thread Starter Make and Do Crew

    (@make-and-do-crew)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Woo hoo! It worked. Wow. Thank you for walking me through that.

    The formatting is quite janky now. Is it possible to fix that? Would that be a CSS fix? Basically, I’d just like the copy to be on the same line as the checkbox and ideally, I’d like the copy to be a little smaller.

    Makeanddocrew.com

    Thanks again for your help, Brandon.

    Plugin Author Brandon Kraft

    (@kraftbj)

    Code Wrangler

    8 years, 4 months ago

    The formatting would be a CSS fix. The plugin itself only includes CSS to hide some text from screenreaders.

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