Hey James,
Thanks for getting in touch.
The approach of adding
.mc_success_msg {
color: #ffffff;
margin-bottom: 1.0em;
}
to your theme’s CSS should do the trick as long as something else isn’t interfering. If you’d like to provide a link, we’ll be glad to take a look at your site and see what else may be going on there. We’re happy to help!
Gabe
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jpryce
(@jpryce)
Thanks Gabe. There shouldn’t be anything odd with the sidebar. url is…
http://www.jampvideo.com/newsite
Cheers
James
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jpryce
(@jpryce)
Hey James,
Thanks for that link! I took a look and for some reason it looks like you’re theme’s style.css seems to have a lower priority than our plugin’s CSS, which is generally reversed. While there may be something in the site swapping which css file gets loaded with priority and swapping those could help, another solution is to add !important before the ; at the end of the lines within the .mc_success_msg snippet.
So it would end up looking like this:
.mc_success_msg {
color: #ffffff !important;
margin-bottom: 1.0em !important;
}
That should override the plugin’s CSS for you!
Gabe
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jpryce
(@jpryce)
Thanks Gabe that worked. How do i change the actual wording?
James
Hi James,
Thanks for writing back. The success message can be changed by editing the some of the plugins code. But I would warn you when the plugin is updated, these changes may not remain and would need to be reapplied.
To change the code, in the wordpress admin area, click the Plugins menu on the left side > Editor. From the menu in the upper right, select MailChimp. Select the file mailchimp/mailchimp.php
In the edit window, look for this section of the text.
$msg = "<strong class='mc_success_msg'>".esc_html(__("Success, you've been signed up! Please look for our confirmation email!", 'mailchimp_i18n'))."</strong>";
Edit the text between the double quotes and that will change the wording of the success message.
Let us know if you have any other questions.
Thanks!
-mcd
