Issue with Newsletter form in header

[lobbybros]

Hello,

I have created a form using mailchimp for the newsletter dropdown in the top bar menu but the submit button doesn’t work. This is the code I am using (generated by MailChimp):

<p align="center"><b>ISCRIVITI ALLA NEWSLETTER</b>!<br>ricevi ogni mese buoni sconto! </p><p>Il modo migliore per conoscere prima di tutti i nostri regali pensati per te!</p>

<p align="center">
<input type="checkbox" name="_mc4wp_lists[]" value="9341c27062"  /> Uomo
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  <input type="checkbox" name="_mc4wp_lists[]" value="0a7f848bf2" /> Donna  </p>
 <p>   <input required="required" placeholder="Nome" name="FNAME" type="text">
</p><p>
<p>
	<input type="email" id="mc4wp_email" name="EMAIL" required placeholder="[email protected]" />
</p>
<label><input type="submit"  value="Iscriviti" />
    </label>

Any ideas as to why?

Thks!

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Hi

You input button doesn’t look right, ours is this:

<div class="clear"><input type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" class="button" style="visibility:hidden;"></div>

Please check your code

– Kyle

[lobbybros]

Tried modifying the button as advised but still nothing…

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

When you get the code from mailchimp, which option are you selecting out of these 3?

– Kyle

[lobbybros]

We didn’t actually use that screen, but rather the MailChimp plugin for WordPress, so we made up the forms from our site’s backend rather than through the MailChimp site. Could that be it?

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Yes, the best way is to use the ‘Embedded forms’ feature on the mailchimp site itself

– Kyle

[lobbybros]

Hello,

I contacted the MailChimp for WP plugin developer and explained the situation. Basically, his plugin works with shortcode, not with html, which is why submit isn’t working. However, given that in the header it is not possible to insert shortcode, he advises as follows:

“The easiest thing would be to contact the theme author and tell him to wrap the header fields in a call to the following function.
<?php echo do_shortcode( $header_field ); ?>
This will allow the use of shortcodes inside the header fields, I’m sure he will understand the specific code that’s needed. It’s a change he can do in a few minutes.”

Is this something that would be possible to do?

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Hi

Replace sf-header.php with:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rzu5drdacplfph3/sf-header.php.zip

Please note that the output may not be as expected

– Kyle

[lobbybros]

Thks for yr reply! However the file unzips as an alias, not as a php file…can you try sending it again? thks!

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Apologies, try now: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rzu5drdacplfph3/sf-header.php.zip

– KYle

[lobbybros]

Hi Kyle, shortcode is working now! Thks!

Just one question: can you let me know which lines you worked on and what specific code you added, so I can add it to my old file (I had made some modifications of my own).

Thks again a kind regards!

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

On line 693 (maybe different after your edits) edit this line:

$aux_links_output .= $sub_code . "\n";

to:

$aux_links_output .= do_shortcode($sub_code) . "\n";

– Kyle

[lobbybros]

Thks for your help!
Very useful.

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

No problem 🙂

– Kyle