want to make first and last name feild required

Hey latanagpal!
Thanks for swinging by the forum. I certainly understand the need to be able to include those additional fields and have them marked as required.

When it comes to the plugin, we’ll actually be pulling in the fields that are already included in your MailChimp list, which we can then select or unselect for use with the plugin. As a result, when it comes to adding in an additional Text field, we’ll first want to include it in our MailChimp list. The article below will explain how to go about adding in those additional fields in MailChimp:

Manage List and Signup Form Fields

Once that text field is added in, we can go about marking those fields as required from within MailChimp, using that same List Fields & *|MERGE|* Tags page described in the article above. Simply check the “Required” box next to the fields you’d like to be marked as required, and they should be required for that list.

From there, open up your site’s Admin panel, hover over Settings, and select MC Setup. From there, scroll down to the Merge Variables Included heading and click Update Subscriber Form Settings, and you should see your updated list fields. There will even be an “Include” checkbox that can be used to select which fields to include.

Let us know if there are any additional questions, and we’ll be happy to help get ’em answered ??
-Elliot

i added the field by login to my account but it is not reflecting in my wordpress website -> admin panel -> settings – >MC account

Hey latanagpal,

Thanks for getting back to us.

Do you see the fields update in MC Setup after clicking the Update Subscriber Form Settings button? If not, does it help to clear your browser’s cache and cookies, before trying again?

If you find that still doesn’t help, can you walk us through the steps that were taken in adding those fields in MailChimp, as well as the steps that were taken in trying to view them within your WordPress site? Additionally, may we have the exact URL for the page the plugin is located at on your site?

Finally, if you could email us your username over to wordpress at mailchimp dot com, then mention in a forum post that you’d sent that over to us, it would be very helpful.

-mc_elliot

Hello,
I’m having the same problem: I need three fields”required” turned on.
Cleared cache, fields are checked on main account- still not reflected in my plugin, even after clicking-update. (Wrote to support- they were helpful- but it hasn’t solved the problem)

Hey boulder3701,

Thanks for writing in. In order for us to best keep on top of this, would you be able to create a new thread about what you’re seeing. In that thread, if you could also include a link to the page where the form has been added through the plugin, we can get a better idea of what might be going on.

Thanks!

-Gunter

Hi Gunter- I started a new thread as u suggested- hopefully you can see it!?

I suspect this has the same root cause as this thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/deleted-group-item-still-shows-in-form?replies=1

That is, changes to the mailing list do not seem to be picked up by the mailchimp plugin. The plugin seems to be caching the prior state. I just figure out that the solution is to click the “Update List” on the Settings Page after any changes made to the list.

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