Title: form action
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# form action

 *  [sullysmainman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sullysmainman/)
 * (@sullysmainman)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-action/)
 * Hi first time using wordpress as CMS as opposed to static html/css sites and 
   3rd party cms.
 * Simple question hopefully with simple fix.
 * I’ve got a popup “newsletter signup form” coded into my header. here’s the code:
 *     ```
       <form id="quickform" name="title" action="newsletter.php" method="GET" >
       Enter Email Address <br/><input id="box1" type="text" name="user" />
       <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
       </form>
       ```
   
 * problem is no matter what config of the “action” field I’ve tried I always get
   a 404 search result. I’m assuming its a path problem to the newsletter.php file
   stored within my theme folder.
 * Any help on what the path to the file should be would be really helpful.
 * thanks in advance.
 * Greg

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 *  [peredur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peredur/)
 * (@peredur)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-action/#post-2258115)
 * Do you need to construct a full path (i.e. full URL) to the action page? WP doesn’t
   really know where to start a relative path from.
 * HTH
 * PAE
 *  Thread Starter [sullysmainman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sullysmainman/)
 * (@sullysmainman)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-action/#post-2258169)
 * Hi, thank for your reply.
 * yes, Full path to the theme folder / url where the action php file is.
 * thanks

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