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If you need to get into the admin, please email me at [email moderated]
Sorry — can you put the widget back in it’s nonfunctional state?
I’ve closed it, if that’s what you mean. (Sorry, I’m a fiction writer!)
Sorry, no. I mean that currently it doesn’t appear that the widget is on your site at all.
If you add the widget back to your site (giving you the 404 error), I can check it out and likely determine the issue.
I’m sorry but I don’t understand. The widget is in place in the “Newsletter” box on the right side of the “Widgets” page in the admin. The widget is also showing on the site itself, is it not? I don’t know what you mean by “adding the widget back to my site.”
Thanks for your patience with me.
I see you sent an email into a Constant Contact email widget that is not activated on the site. I’m trying to use the newsletter widget with a Mail Chimp account.
No problem. The widget that’s on your site now isn’t the eNews Extended widget. It appears to be a text widget with HTML pasted directly into it.
OK, I just deleted two widgets in my “Inactive Widgets” section that might be what you’re talking about. They were attempts of mine to solve my problem using Constant Contact before I contacted you. Now I have your eNews Extended widget in place in the “Newsletter” section on the right hand side of the “Widgets” page in the admin. I don’t know how else I can make it appear on the site. Help.
You did it now. The constant contact one was showing on the site until a few minutes ago.
It appears that in the form action field, you have included quotes in that setting.
In the form action field, copy and paste just the following without quotes around it:
http://thecomicmuse.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=9d35012ea0f45fee80b901d97&id=652b0fb780&
That should do it!
Excellent, Brandon, thank you. I don’t understand what you did, but I’m glad you did it!
This may be a Mail Chimp issue, but when I plug an email into the subscribe form, I am led to a page that says
“Almost finished…
We need to confirm your email address.
To complete the subscription process, please click the link in the email we just sent you.”
This may be standard operating procedure for Mail Chimp (I just signed up with it tonight and haven’t investigated it much). Is that your understanding or is there a better way to use the plugin?
Thanks so much again,
Daniel
Yeah, that is a MailChimp thing. You can edit that page or have MailChimp redirect to a page on your site (subscribe to my list at brandonkraft.com for a working example).
To do that, MailChimp’s site has the details:
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/can-i-design-and-host-my-own-thank-you-pages-instead-of-using-mailchimps
Glad we got it working! Cheers!
