Integrate the optincrusher web form with the MailChimp service to build an optin email list fast. Copy and paste instructions get you going in no time at all.
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Hi there,
I have been looking for something like this for a while, tried a coupla things but like yours.
I have a bit of an isse with data not saving on the options page.
to change any of the images or the background I have to input the paths by hand and then it will save. If i click on the images and click save it doesn’t save the changes.
I also have a similar issue with integrating the mailchimp code. after adding the code and clicking proceed it merely refreshes the page and clears the box of the code?
Is this likely to be a permissions solution? or are ther any known conflicts with other plugins, for instance I am running analytics 360 with the mailchimp integration option – I know that this is likely to cause problems with some plugins?
regards
j
Aha!
Discovered my own answer. It doesn’t like you using chrome!! I have a couple of php scripts just like it. No matter how hard you try nothing happens if you use chrome, but are fine in Explorer9, which is curious as they are all Mozilla/Firefox based!!
love the plugin – knocks spots off the others!
Thanks for the report Jameson. I’ll have a look at chrome/mailchimp at some point. I know that aweber+chrome works, but that doesn’t help much with mailchimp.
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the video. One little problem, MailChimp has completely changed their design page and I’m having difficulty figuring how exactly how to get the code I need to implement the plugin. I don’t know if you have time to take another look at it, but updated instructions would be awesome.
Thanks,
John P.
John,
I’ll have to double check mailchimp. It’s been over a year and I’m sure things have changed a bit.
In the meantime, you can manually prepare the optin form and paste it in. It’s a bit more work, but will get you up and running with optincrusher quickly.
Hi Daniel,
I can get the code but the form is placing the “SUBSCRIBE” button below the email address box, which means it’s half off the screen.
What do I need to do to get the subscribe button to appear beside the email address box?
You need to make sure the submit button is not an image. If it’s a submit button with no inline styles, the default installation should work.
How do I do that Daniel? I assume I have to delete some part of the code below but when I tried removing the entire line below the form had no SUBMIT button at all.
Thanks very much for your help with this.
You just need to end up with something like this inside the angled brackets:
input type=”submit” value=”Sign Up”
I hate to come almost 8 months later about the same topic. I am confused as to where the above input line should go and what information I should be replacing it with to have the email sign up line in the correct location for mail chimp. If you visit my site you will see that the line is buried. Thanks for any help
In this case you just need to tweak the CSS a bit. I prefer to use Chrome developer tools for that.
Daniel, I have similar issues as Bill and Yolanda.. The subscribe button overlaps the email box on the footer, and it’s on the side of the email box on optin light box.
Here’s the snippet of code pertaining to the subscribe button:
I revised the code above to: input type=”submit” value=”subscribe” But it didn’t fix it.
I’m no techie, so any step-by-step instruction on how to correct this will be helpful.
Sorry for the long message.
Thanks for your help.
Brett, the code doesn’t come through in the comments. As long as you’re not using an image for your submit button, the only other thing to consider is CSS. In most cases the CSS for optincrusher is well isolated. Occasionally you have to make a change to the CSS for your overall theme or choose a different theme.