Janet Thomas

Becky – First I had to design the forms in MailChimp *just* *right*, which wasn’t as easy as it should have been. I had to re-do them several times.

Then I copied the HTML from MailChimp. A bunch of it needed to be stripped off. Below is what is in my PD now. (Be sure to read my most recent post above, as I did have to do a bit of tweaking to get the end result I wanted.)

Also, remember to substitute your own gobbledy-gook identifiers from the MailChimp code.

<!-- Begin MailChimp Signup Form -->

<div id="mc_embed_signup">
<form action=GOBBLEDY-GOOK IDENTIFYING MY ACCOUNT method="post" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" class="validate" target="_blank">
	<h2>Subscribe to my mailing list</h2>
<div class="indicates-required"><span class="asterisk">*</span> indicates required</div>

<div class="mc-field-group">
	<label for="mce-FIRSTNAME">First Name  <span class="asterisk">*</span>
</label>
	<input type="text" value="" name="FIRSTNAME" class="required" id="mce-FIRSTNAME">
</div>
<div class="mc-field-group">
	<label for="mce-EMAIL">Email Address  <span class="asterisk">*</span>
</label>
	<input type="text" value="" name="EMAIL" class="required" id="mce-EMAIL">
</div>
	<div id="mce-responses" class="clear">
		<div class="response" id="mce-error-response" style="display:none"></div>
		<div class="response" id="mce-success-response" style="display:none"></div>
	</div>	<div class="clear"><input type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" class="button"></div>
</form>
</div>

<!--End mc_embed_signup-->

Here’s what worked for me after I borked my once-working MailChimp HTML code in Popup Domination:

1. I got the code from MailChimp, after designing my forms with both first name and email address (<form> blah blah blah </form>).
2. NAME showed up as the only selection in the PD dropdowns, below the HTML code box, for both Name and Email Address, even though the code showed both NAME and EMAIL.
3. I changed the EMAIL to MAIL (three instances).
4. I saved/updated PD.
5. I changed MAIL back to EMAIL.
6. I saved/updated PD.

Now I can select either NAME or EMAIL from the dropdowns below the HTML code box. I did a test subscribe, and it worked properly and saved both name and email address in Mail Chimp.

Yes, I did figure it out.

You have to go into MailChimp first and make sure you have selected the first name field to be added to your MC signup form when you design your form, THEN add the MC HTML code in PD.

@ griff – Can you tell me how you fiddled the NAME and EMAIL fields? I’m trying to use Mailchimp with Popup Domination, and when I plug in the Mailchimp HTML code into the appropriate place in Popup Domination, it doesn’t include code for the name field (that my no-speak-HTML eye can see), only the email field.

I re-re-re-re-deleted and re-re-re-re-installed WordPress again AND re-re-re-re-cleared out my cache, and finally everything’s working as it should.

Thanks for your assistance

<i>do you have an .htaccess file in public_html telling browsers to opena certain page? </i>

Nope. I’m completely baffled by this. I don’t have a clue as to what else to try. I’d actually asked lunarpages if they could reset my site back to the original default, as it was when they first created my account, but they don’t do that. They did suggest that I delete all but the default files, which I did, and then reinstalled WordPress with Fantastico’s automated installation, before I posted here asking for help.

(FYI, I *had* renamed the index.php file, but have renamed it back to index.php.)

It installed in the public_html directory. I’d already tried renaming the index files, but the old splash page still showed up. Any other suggestions?