Forms Archives - MailChimp for WordPress

Adding tags to Mailchimp subscribers

Subscriber tags are a relatively new Mailchimp feature to help organize your contacts. Our Mailchimp for…
Add Google reCAPTCHA to forms

Google reCAPTCHA protects you against spam and other types of automated abuse. Mailchimp for WordPress comes…
JavaScript form events

MailChimp for WordPress triggers various JavaScript events whenever your visitors interact with a sign-up form on…
Conditional fields or elements

MailChimp for WordPress supports conditional fields or elements by using two special attributes: data-show-if and data-hide-if….
What does “Replace Interest” mean?

When you enable the replace existing subscribers option, a new setting called replace interest groupings appears….
Styling the placeholder

What’s a placeholder? A placeholder is a bit of text that you can add to an…
Accepted shortcode arguments

The MailChimp for WordPress plugin comes with a shortcode that allows you to place a sign-up…
Using Radio Buttons For List Choices

If you would like to make your subscriber select only one of your available list, one…
Add variables to redirect URL

You can pass variables from your form to the page your form redirects to. This way…
Unsubscribe forms

Since version 2.7 of MailChimp for WordPress, you can use the plugin forms for handling unsubscribes…
Using variables in your form or messages

A relatively unknown feature of the plugin is the fact that you can use certain variables…
Add CSS class to form element

You can add or remove CSS classes to the HTML element containing the sign-up form using…
Make Interest Groupings a required field

If you include an interest grouping in your sign-up form using checkboxes, you may want to…
Prevent spam sign-ups

By default, the MailChimp for WordPress plugin uses various techniques to prevent spam sign-ups. Unfortunately, some…
Duplicating a sign-up form with its settings

Sometimes you will want to copy over all the work you’ve done on a sign-up form…
Validating “birthday” fields

The plugin uses HTML5 input fields and will by default use a regular “text” field for…
Show form from theme files

To show a sign-up form from the PHP files in your theme, you can use the…
Split up address fields

MailChimp splits up address fields by default, something the field generator in the MailChimp for WordPress…
Change position of form response

You can change the position of success and error messages using the {response} tag or by…
Add form to all posts automatically

Adding a MailChimp for WordPress sign-up form to the end of all singular posts is easy….
Add custom form validation

It is quite easy to add custom form validation to any form created by MailChimp for…
Track form events with Google Analytics

The plugin makes it easy for you to interact with the various form events and run…
Populate fields with URL data

If you want to populate certain form fields with data provided in the URL then you…
Single-line horizontal forms

If you have a simple form with just a few fields then it can be nice…
Show form in sidebar or footer

In most themes, the sidebar and footer are so called widget areas. This means that you…
Show form inside post or page

Showing a sign-up form in your posts or pages is as easy as copy-pasting the following…
Email notifications for forms

By default, you can use MailChimp to send an email notification for every sign-up. However, there…
Customising confirmation email

The confirmation and welcome emails are not sent out by the plugin but are sent by…