Pop Up Form Not Displaying

Update: I have abandoned the idea of using a pop-up form completely, and I have inserted the shortcode into the page directly instead.

I have had to jiggle things around using CSS a fair bit, but now the form displays as I want it to on a desktop browser.

On mobile, it still looks awful (despite using @media calls in CSS to adjust the display on smaller screens). My images are gone (Why?! What sort of a ‘feature’ is that?) and the width remains too large for the mobile screen (even if I try to force the width in the CSS – I have tried using both px and % values).

This is supposed to be an intuitive and user-friendly experience. The form I make in the designer settings should be what outputs for the user. It should look exactly as I have made it to look! Instead I have had to fiddle about with the code for an hour or two and I am still only halfway there. Extrenely frustrating.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Kit Marsden.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Kit Marsden.

Final update: I have managed to display the images on a mobile browser, after a lot of trial-and-error with yet more embedded CSS. It has taken me almost three days to make this form display the way I want it to appear (ie. match what I built in the form’s Design page).

Just as a quick reminder, the main page for this plugin states:

Easy to use WordPress newsletter builder
Beautiful templates that work perfectly across all devices
No configuration needed: works out of the box

My experience has been the opposite of this. ‘No configuration needed’? Several days of tweaking CSS classes until it finally shows what you asked it to show in the first place!

I have actually been a MailPoet user for some time, on a different site I manage, and I have always liked the plugin and never had any issues. I still like it for sending out email newsletters and updates and collating a mailing list. However, on my other site I have never used anything other than the simplest possible sign-up form because that site is not ‘public-facing’ and is only open to a closed group of people – this means that the design of the forms is less critical and I have never needed to try and make them look ‘pretty’.

So for this new mailing list, I went straight to MailPoet because I knew I had used it before and had good results. I was appalled to find how difficult it is to make the ‘public’ sign-up forms look good. I am now extremely disappointed with the amount of work I have had to put in to achieve something very basic, and I have been left feeling very frustrated with a plugin I thought I knew and which I thought I could trust.

I will continue to use MailPoet for both the use cases outlined above, because I have it configured how I want it now and the system works for me and for the sites I manage. However, please try to take this feedback onboard and look at ways of making the process less painless for me or for anyone else in the future.

Thanks,
Kit Marsden