Title: subscribe form problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# subscribe form problem

 *  [jmps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmps/)
 * (@jmps)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribe-form-problem-1/)
 * I want to add a very simple html form to a page, to allow people to sign up for
   a newsletter. I’m using Campaign Monitor to send the newsletter and manage the
   subscriber list. I used CM’s utility to generate the form, which works fine when
   tested on a static html page.
 *     ```
       <form action="http://zzzzz.createsend.com/t/r/s/zzzzzz/" method="post">
       <div>
       <p><label for="name">Name:</label> <input type="text" name="cm-name" id="name" /></p>
       <p><label for="zzzzzz-zzzzzz">Email:</label> <input type="text" name="cm-zzzzzz-zzzzzz" id="zzzzzz-zzzzzz" /></p>
   
       <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" />
       ```
   
 * However, when I add the form to a WordPress page and test it, nothing happens.
   Specifically, the data entered into the name and e-mail fields isn’t sent to 
   Campaign Monitor, and instead of being redirected to CM’s standard “thank you”
   web page, I’m redirected to URL made up of my domain name plus a string of characters
   taken from the form data:
 * `http://mysite.net/?s=&cm-name=name&cm-zzzzzz-zzzzzz=name%40mysite.net`
 * I see that there is a Campaign Monitor plugin, but that would force me to use
   a widget and I need to have more control than that over where this little form
   appears, so I’d rather not use it.
 * I might also note that the other forms used on the site (search forms and an 
   e-mail form built w/ Contact 7) are working fine.
 * Any ideas why WP won’t let the form data be sent to the external URL? Could the
   problem be that `method="post"` instead of “get”?

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 *  Thread Starter [jmps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmps/)
 * (@jmps)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribe-form-problem-1/#post-1144939)
 * Just an update: It turns out the form works if I put the code in a template file,
   rather than in the body of a page. That’s a good enough fix, but I’m still curious
   why it won’t work the other way, if anyone can explain it.
 *  Thread Starter [jmps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmps/)
 * (@jmps)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribe-form-problem-1/#post-1144952)
 * A further update: Now the form is also not working from the template. Any help?

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 * [campaign monitor](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/campaign-monitor/)
 * [html form](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html-form/)

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribe-form-problem-1/#post-1144952)
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