Some Form Messages not displaying

  • Resolved ajdesignco

    (@ajdesignco)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi there, thanks for developing this plugin! So far so good (regarding function), but I am not seeing the form messages except for the Email address is already on list message.

    So when I add a new email address and click Subscribe, the address receives the confirmation email from MailChimp so the person can start receiving email from the system. However, there is no success message on the page. The same happens when I submit an incomplete email address…there is no error message displayed on the page. The only form message I am receiving is when I try to subscribe with a duplicate email address.

    This plugin was installed as required by the Outlet theme from PixelStores.

    Do you have any suggestions?

    Thank you!

    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/

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  • Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    Hmm. Strange. I can’t seem to replicate the issue but have no access to the Outlet theme so can’t do any testing with that theme. However, if the theme author recommended usage of my plugin he most likely did some testing himself and there shouldn’t be any compatibility issues.

    A few questions, sorry if some might seem obvious.

    • Are you using the latest version of MailChimp for WP? 0.8 at the time of writing. There was an issue with success and error messages a few weeks ago.
    • Are the error and success messages on the form settings page not empty?
    • Can you check the HTML source to see if any error or success messages are showing up there, they might be hidden by some CSS rule.

    Also, make sure that this is not because you are redirecting uses to a certain URL after a successful sign-up.

    Thanks.

    Danny

    Thread Starter ajdesignco

    (@ajdesignco)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Danny,

    Thanks for your reply!

    Here are answers:
    1) Yes, I was using the latest version (0.8), although now I see there is an update (0.8.1).

    2) The error and success messages on the form settings are populated with the default values.

    3) I checked the HTML source code and found some interesting things. Here are screenshots:

    duplicate email PAGE success:
    http://postimg.org/image/4iz24oy8h/

    duplicate email CODE success:
    http://postimg.org/image/fp2jx4n69/

    invalid/new email PAGE fail:
    http://postimg.org/image/cpr1w9ob5/
    (this shows no form message text)

    invalid email CODE fail:
    http://postimg.org/image/e7h3lkifl/
    (the “invalid email” message shows in the code)

    new email CODE fail:
    http://postimg.org/image/sp9pftkcx/
    (I don’t see the “new email” success message in the code)

    It is quite possible that you fixed the issue in the update, and I haven’t tried yet after the update. But I wanted to send these screenshots in case they prove helpful.

    Thanks for a great plugin!
    Andy

    Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Andy,

    Wonderful, thank you so much. This sure helps.

    I came across someone else with the same theme before. The error messages show up just fine but are hidden by CSS because of a rule in the theme’ s stylesheet. I’ve actually done something in the latest update that might affect this but I’m not sure (the theme might override the CSS rule). Can you confirm?

    Anyway, if the theme author recommends my plugin he should add a few simple CSS rules to his style.css file. Should be easy enough for him.

    If the last update didn’ t fix it, add this rule to your style.css file.

    form.mc4wp-form p.alert{ display:block !important; }

    I hope that helps.

    Danny

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