Hey Paul!
It’s good to hear from you. I certainly understand the need to add that hidden field to your form to see where people had signed up.
Sadly, there won’t be an easy, built-in method for pre-populating a hidden field in the plugin. However, it’s worth noting that signups from the plugin will actually have their own signup source, which will be “Social Proxy for MailChimp.”
Another option might be to try utilizing MailChimp’s embed code, which is generally easier to manipulate for including a pre-populated, hidden field. Here’s a helpful article that explains how:
Add Code to Get Location Information from Signup Forms: http://eepurl.com/SKbn
That said, these two previous threads may interest you, as they include some possible suggestions for trying to make that work with the plugin (although the embed code option remains our recommendation):
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/hidden-fields-1?replies=4
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-list-subscribe-form-modification-to-mailchimp-that-allows-hidden-fields-to-be-used-in-wordpress?replies=4
As always, let us know if there are any questions! We’ll be happy to offer advice and help 🙂
-mc_elliot
Thanks. I have tried the solution in the first link, although I can’t seem to get it to work.
I have an embedded form elsewhere on my site, but I would like to have the widget as well. I keep looking for a solution.
Thanks,
Paul
