Kreg Wallace

The confirmation email is not to let people know that their signature was confirmed, it’s to provide an opportunity for them to confirm the signature.

Since you’re not actually wanting to make people confirm their signatures, you should turn the confirm signatures option off.

An option to provide an auto-response mail when a signature is confirmed is not available in the plugin yet.

There are some attributes for the shortcode that should make this easy to do. More info on the attributes can be found on the Other Notes page.

Most likely, the following example will float the petition form to the right for you:

[emailpetition id="1" class="alignright"]

Look under the Confirmation Emails tab on the plugin’s Settings page. You should be able to add any links you like just by pasting in the URLs. The contents of the Email Message field get sent out as a plain-text email, so you can add whatever tet or URLs you want.

There are a couple of ways to do this…

[1] The “Basic” theme still displays the petition message by default. So, you can go to the plugin’s settings page and select “Basic” as your petition theme.

[2] If you want to use the default style instead of basic, you need to make a few CSS edits… On the Settings page, set your theme to “None (use petition.css)”. then copy the default theme’s CSS file (located at css/theme-default.css in the plugin folder) over to your theme folder and rename the file to petition.css. Then edit the following styles…

To hide the yellow ‘Read the petition’ link, change .dk-speakup-readme to display: none; by changing line 54 from this

display: block !important;

to this

display: none;

Now, to display the petition, change lines 160-163 from this

.dk-speakup-petition .dk-speakup-message,
.dk-speakup-petition .dk-speakup-message-editable {
  display: none !important;
}

to this

.dk-speakup-petition .dk-speakup-message,
.dk-speakup-petition .dk-speakup-message-editable {
  overflow: auto;
}

I haven’t done any extensive testing of that plugin’s compatibility with different versions of WP. It’s always seemed to work fine though — just install and activate with the default options and you should be good.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’m hoping to add similar functionality with a little different approach. Note though that the idea you described wouldn’t actually work in practice because a CC is a direct copy of an email – not a copy of an email with some optional extra messages added to it.

You can run as many petitions concurrently as you want.

Hi Seth,

I’m hoping to add integration with some of these mailing list apps in the future. Can’t really predict when I’ll be able to get to it though. I think the current list of suggestions for this looks like:

* Campaign Monitor
* MailChimp
* Awebber
* Constant Contact

I hope they have similar APIs. Are there any popular ones I’m missing from that list?

You can export your signatures to CSV or you can display the fields publicly by using the [signaturelist] shortcode and selecting the fields you want to display fron the Settings page.

The JavaScript file that controls the function of the plugin is loaded in the footer of your webbpage. Without wp_footer() in your theme, WordPress never gets the call to load the scripts.

[1] This isn’t built-in, but you can manually edit the Javascript file which handles the required validations. In public.js (which handles the shortcode form), look for rules like this:

if ( lastname === '' ) {
	$( '#dk-speakup-last-name-' + id ).addClass( 'dk-speakup-error' );
	errors ++;
}

and then add your own rules, checking the values of the fields you want to require. So to require the City field, you’d add

if ( city === '' ) {
	$( '#dk-speakup-city-' + id ).addClass( 'dk-speakup-error' );
	errors ++;
}

[2] There isn’t any designated signature page. The [signaturelist id=”1″] shortcode can be used to display a signature list on any page you wish. Then you can link to that page with a standard HTML link tag. Read through the shortcode documentation for further customization options.

There is already an email address field added to the form by default. Just use the custom field for County and you should be set.

I’m working on adding the double email entry thing for the next release.

On the plugin’s Settings page, under the Admin Display tab, you’ll find an option labelled “CSV file includes”. Now select the “Only opt-in signatures” value

This shortcode is now included in the latest release: version 2.3.3