old time favorite – change buttons

@viererspitze,

I would recommended strongly against changing any of the source code as you would lose this changes every time I release an update.

Instead use a div class name with appropriate CSS to the Subscribe2 form by either wrapping the shortcode in DIV tags or adding the necessary class name in the Widget settings.

hi mattyrob – thank you for the answer and all the other answers i have discovered you giving to clueless folks like me…
but i am still puzzled: i have again googled alot as i am really not knowledgable on wordpress. so it looks like the file i should cahnge is class-s2-frontend.php
is that correct?
then i seems like i should do the css wrapping soemwhere close to line 60? correct?
but what is it that i will wrap?
all the other examples on the web that i can find of other people dealing with the same problem show code that does not show up in my installation (Version 8.9.1 and widget 1.1)
i would reaaaaallly aprecaite your help on this again. thank you, jens

@viererspitze,

No code editing is needed, in the WordPress admin area go to Pages->All Pages. Find your subscription handling page and edit it.

Where you currently have:
[subscribe2]

In the source of the page, change it to something like this:

<div class="myclass">
[subscribe2]
</div>

The ‘myclass’ bit needs to be a class configured in your theme that will style the form and buttons, maybe start with the class used for the search form is you have one.

hi – well, i now created a new page for folks to subscribe and unsubscribe, moving the function out of the sidebar. that actually looks good on a dedicated page and no need to fiddle around with the buttons anymore. so thank you for inspiring me to this idea ??

mhhh – sorry for coming back with another challenge: so i had moved the whole subscrib e and unsubscribe to a dedicated page. worked like a charm… but then i cleaned up the widget sidebar because i did not need it anymore. and now the process on the page does not work anymore. but the widget back on the sidebar, page works again. any clue what i might b doing wrong? maybe the link to the page (work in progress) helps?
https://vu2620.srv01.hofstede.de/
thanks, jens

@jens,

You probably need to go to Subscribe2->Settings and in the Appearance tab you need to select this new page in the drop down at the top where it says “Set default Subscribe2 page as”.