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Hey there, Bensonxie!

Hmm…. so it looks like you’ve got the custom styling enabled in the plugin, which is totally cool. However, any stylings you need to adjust should be handled from “Settings” -> “MailChimp Setup” if you want to leave that option on. Otherwise, you’ll want to disable that custom styling helper and go from scratch with CSS.

For changing the font color, you’ll generally just want to change the Text Color in that “Custom Styling” area.

As far as the width of the form goes, can you post a screenshot of what you’re seeing specifically and what the desired behavior is?

Cheers

Hey there!

The best way to translate the plugin is through the PO file for your specific language included in the plugin’s files. Check out this thread for a little more information:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-list-subscribe-form-changing-errorconfirmation-messages?replies=6

Or our included how to, on this page:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailchimp/faq/

Let us know if we can assist in any other way!

Cheers

Hey there Andreas!

Happy to help get this sorted out.

For the background-color of the submit button, this is generally best handled by adding some custom styling to your sites Style.css file. I typically like to use Firebug (for Firefox) or Chrome’s built-in developer tools to find the classes or IDs I need to edit. For the submit button, you’ll want to add something like this to your CSS:

.mc_signup_submit {
color: _________;
background-color: ________;
}

This will allow you to set a custom font and background color for the submit button in your site. For example:

Screenshot — http://cl.ly/image/293f0f43210C

If you’re wanting to get rid of the “Preferred Format” area, there are a couple of options. You can either use CSS to hide the area, or you can remove it entirely by editing the list in MailChimp. Here’s the complete rundown, here:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-list-subscribe-form-remove-preferred-format?replies=14

Last, but certainly not least, you were concerned with the width of the input area for the email address. This is going to be another issue that’s best corrected through CSS. You can set up a style in your site’s CSS that says MailChimp fields can only be X px or X% wide, like so:

.mc_input {
width: _______;
}

For my example, I chose 80%, which gives you something like this:

Screenshot — http://cl.ly/image/3I1w3C1l1v39

Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns!

Cheers

Hey there, mjpg!

It looks like something got a bit messed up there. Mind trying it again?

Cheers

Hey there, Bob.

If you’re wanting to limit the load time, the best thing to do, as that site describes, is to turn of the custom styling in the plugin’s settings. From there, you will need to get the IDs and classes from the form. You can either use something like Firebug to isolate those elements, or you can take a peek at the CSS that comes with the form.

You can find that stylesheet (usually) with a URL like this:

http://yoursite.com/wordpress/?mcsf_action=main_css&ver=3.4.2

That should give you everything that you need to add to your site’s Style.css file.

Cheers

Hey there!

While I’m not familiar with Optin Revolution, it sounds like they’re asking for some user-related information in your MailChimp account. You should be able to find those values, here:

Can I host my own signup forms?: http://eepurl.com/gOHk

However, you’ll definitely want to double-check with Optin Revolution to make sure that’s correct.

Hope that helps!

Cheers

Hey again, Arne!

I’ve been playing with this all afternoon, but haven’t been able to replicate this same behavior in my own setup. Out of curiosity, are you able to replicate this same strange behavior using one of WordPress’ default themes? Additionally, are there any other plugins that are enabled? You might try disabling those one at a time to see if there’s a specific conflict with a plugin that we’re running into.

As far as an immediate workaround, you might check out MailChimp’s embedded form as a solution:

How can I add my signup form to my website?: http://eepurl.com/gOGN

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Cheers

No worries!

Although this isn’t specific to MailChimp’s form, you should be able to adjust the padding for that button in the same way that you adjusted the width/height. Something like this should do the trick:

#mc_signup_submit.button {
width: 60%;
height:30px;
padding:5px;}

http://cl.ly/image/0T1a1M0f1o0S

Although, feel free to adjust the padding to your heart’s content to give you that proper look/feel. 🙂

Cheers