Am I missing something obvious- checkboxes

  • Resolved mbernhardt

    (@mbernhardt)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    Just installed Contact Form 7 and MailChimp for WordPress Lite. Integration with Mailchimp is fine. I created a test page and installed a contact form 7 form on it.
    In your plugin, I checked the Registration Form checkbox. Now, where is the checkbox supposed to show up? I thought it would magically find the Contact Form 7 form, but it doesn’t. What am I doing wrong?

    Also assuming I get it working, how will the form’s elements integrate with Mailchimp in order to get the correct info in the correct fields?

    What I want is to have my contact form (currently in another plugin) give users the option of signing up for a newsletter or not. At the moment there are 2 forms on the page, one for MailChimp and one for everything else, which is kind of dumb.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/

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  • Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    Hi there,

    The registration form option points to the default WordPress registration form.

    In order to add a checkbox to a CF7 form you can use the [mc4wp_checkbox] code in your CF7 form mark-up. This will automatically render a checkbox which, when checked, will subscribe the given email and name to the list selected in MailChimp for WP > Checkboxes.

    Should you want to control the fields sent to MailChimp then you can prefix the field names with mc4wp-, followed by the name of the “merge tag” in MailChimp. Have a look at the FAQ for more info on how to do this.

    Hope that helps, good luck!

    Thread Starter mbernhardt

    (@mbernhardt)

    So then the result would be that I could choose which fields get sent to MailChimp, while still having all of them sent via normal form email rules! That’s exactly what I want!

    I currently use Custom Contact Forms for my forms and I’m only using CF7 because of your built-in integration with it. Custom Contact Forms makes much more beautiful forms. Compare the 2nd form on https://yvonnelefort.net/contact-us vs https://yvonnelefort.net/contact-test. (The first form is from Easy Mailchimp right now).

    But am I understanding your FAQ correctly that there’s a way to integrate your plugin with Custom Contact Forms?

    Thread Starter mbernhardt

    (@mbernhardt)

    Never mind, I’ve got it all working perfectly now. Thanks for a great plug-in!

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