Title: WordPress Plugin – Placeholder Text hack
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress Plugin – Placeholder Text hack

 *  [bbrowne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bbrowne/)
 * (@bbrowne)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-plugin-placeholder-text-hack/)
 * So I learned how to remove the form labels and include placeholder text within
   the form fields to consolidate the MailChimp signup widget.
 * This was a great resource – [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-list-subscribe-form-request-add-placeholder-text-for-mailchimp-widget?replies=8](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-list-subscribe-form-request-add-placeholder-text-for-mailchimp-widget?replies=8)
 * It has since been closed for comments, and I’m using the direction on the very
   last post because I have multiple fields.
 * Chris Barrett posted:
 * > I know this is an older thread, but there is a better way of adding the placeholder.
   > If you have multiple fields you want on your form, the placeholder=”Your best
   > email…” adds that text inside all boxes.
   > Instead, use placeholder=”‘.esc_html($var[‘name’]).'” and your MailChimp Field
   > Label will be displayed.
 * The problem is, this isn’t pulling the field label. It’s pulling the default 
   field value, which I use as merge fields for emails. These are two very different
   things, so right now my placeholder text says ‘Good Day!’ instead of ‘First Name’.
 * Anyone have a fix? Thanks!

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## Tags

 * [mailchimp plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mailchimp-plugin/)
 * [placeholder text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/placeholder-text/)
 * [registration form](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/registration-form/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-plugin-placeholder-text-hack/)
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