Title: [Plugin: MailPress] Custom fields for subscription form
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# [Plugin: MailPress] Custom fields for subscription form
* [rajaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajaman/)
* (@rajaman)
* [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/)
* Is it possible to add custom fields to the subscription form? I think it would
be very valuable to capture at least a name and/or additional information for
newsletter subscriptions. Would love to see that feature become available soon.
Or is it already possible to do that?
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* [Hiranthi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illutic/)
* (@illutic)
* [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020571)
* It’s already possible. Go to Users and select one of the users. Once you’re on
that page you can add a custom field.
* To add the info of that custom field in your email template use $args->your_data(
see the api page on the [mailpress](http://mailpress.org) website for more info).
* Thread Starter [rajaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rajaman/)
* (@rajaman)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020854)
* Thank you for your answer.
What I am looking for is to add a custom field to
the subscription form. So that, for example, users are required to provide a
name along with the email when they sign up. Do you know if that is already possible?
* [masterbassie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/masterbassie/)
* (@masterbassie)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020855)
* I second that notion for at least the first name in the widget subscription form.
Thanks in advance 🙂
* [Hiranthi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illutic/)
* (@illutic)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020876)
* To be quite honest: I have no idea, but I don’t think so (you can only change
title and subscription button text in widget). Would be a nice feature to add
though.
* [Ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
* (@ovidiu)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020877)
* yepp. the custom fields plugin only allows the admin adding custom fields, which
is pretty useless as I too want the subscriber to add his name, or i.e. check
SMS/Email depending on how he wants to receive the newsletter…
* [Hiranthi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illutic/)
* (@illutic)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020886)
* Well, there is a way to use custom fields, but it’s not built-in with MP (theoretically
it should work).
* With MP you can select the option to synchronize MP with the WP users (you can
activate the option to subscribe to the newsletter in the registration form).
With Register Plus you can add multiple custom fields to the profile a/o registration
form.
* So, in theory, you should be able to use those custom fields in your newsletters(
haven’t tested it out though).
* [Ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
* (@ovidiu)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020887)
* can’t seem to find these options:
* `With MP you can select the option to synchronize MP with the WP users (you can
activate the option to subscribe to the newsletter in the registration form).`
* can you give me a hint how to do that?
* btw. its not necessarily about using those custom fields in the newsletter, though
that would be a nice touch, but more about knowing who signs up for that newsletter
and some other options: i.e. a checkbox to let the user select in which language
he wants the newsletter
* [Hiranthi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illutic/)
* (@illutic)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020888)
* You can download the additional module from [MailPress](http://www.mailpress.org/)(
AddOns – MailPress_sync_wordpress_user’. Forgot to mention that, sorry.
* [Ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
* (@ovidiu)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020890)
* ok, this solution looks promising, but the documentation is very scarce 🙁
* – what does this option mean: Allow subscriptions from: Registration Form – I
can check this but what does it do?
– should I create the special fields from
within Register Plus of within the custom fields add on for mailpress?
* [Hiranthi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/illutic/)
* (@illutic)
* [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020891)
* The check is that you allow users to subscribe to a/your newsletter when they
are registering on the site.
You should create the special fields from within
Register Plus.
* [brotherjoseph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brotherjoseph/)
* (@brotherjoseph)
* [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020919)
* We need to get this feature put natively into Mailpress, because even if this“
Register Plus” workaround works (does it?) we still won’t have the ability to
filter large user lists by our custom fields, which is the whole point I think,
so you can sort and send a newsletter to just the people that fit a certain demographic.(
For me I want to be able to send mail just to people in a certain state to notify
the people when my band is coming to play there.
* [Ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
* (@ovidiu)
* [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020923)
* jepp, right. now only if the author of MP would give us an official statement
😉
* [jmsrmk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmsrmk/)
* (@jmsrmk)
* [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020927)
* I second the desire to have a name along with the email on the subscription form.
I’ve designed up the subscription form for my client and I guess I can ignore
the name field for now, but it would be nice if it served a purpose. :-/
* [davelassanske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davelassanske/)
* (@davelassanske)
* [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020938)
* I also needed this for a client. So I hobbled together a hack. Here it is. You’ll
have to update 2 files: mailpress/mp-includes/class/MP_Widget.class.php and mailpress/
mp-includes/class/MP_User.class.php.
* In MP_Widget.class.php look for “”
it’s around line 108. You’ll find the form there. It currently just have the
email input field, but I added a first and last name fields, and a zip code field.
The names of the fields were ‘first’,’last’,and ‘zip’ respectively. I basically
just copied the current email code and just changed the variables and names.
* ```
```
* Then find this code around line 170ish:
“$email = ( isset($_POST[’email’]) )?
$_POST[’email’] : ”;” and replicate this line for each of your extra fields,
mine looked like this:
* ```
$email = ( isset($_POST['email']) ) ? $_POST['email'] : '';
$first = ( isset($_POST['first']) ) ? $_POST['first'] : '';
$last = ( isset($_POST['last']) ) ? $_POST['last'] : '';
$zip = ( isset($_POST['zip']) ) ? $_POST['zip'] : '';
```
* A few more lines down find the if statement that checks to see if the fields
are filled out:
“if ( ” == $email || $defaults[‘txtfield’] == $email )” and
add the extra fields to the if statement, mine looked like this: `if ( '' ==
$email || $defaults['txtfield'] == $email || '' == $first || '' == $last || ''
== $zip )` And finally for the Widgets class page, find this: “$add = MP_User::
add($email);” and change to:
* ```
$add = MP_User::add($email,$first,$last,$zip);
```
* .
* Now let’s go to the MP_User.class.php file. Around line 362, find “public static
function add($email){” and add in your extra field’s variables. Mine looked like
this:
“public static function add($email,$first,$last,$zip) {“. Finally, find
the if statement around line 400 that says “if ( self::insert($email, $key) )”
and add your extra fields like this:
* ```
if ( self::insert($email, $key) )
{
MP_Usermeta::add(self::get_id_by_email($email),'First',$first);
MP_Usermeta::add(self::get_id_by_email($email),'Last',$last);
MP_Usermeta::add(self::get_id_by_email($email),'Zip',$zip);
$return['result'] = true;
$return['message'] = $defaults['txtwaitconf'] ;
return $return;
}
```
* Save and upload. These changes should then change the functionality of your form
so that when a user initially signs up, their record will also be given custom
fields generated from your form. Hope this helps!
* [Ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
* (@ovidiu)
* [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailpress-custom-fields-for-subscription-form/#post-1020939)
* sounds good, would you mind notifying the author? maybe he’ll build it in?
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