How to add mailchimp form to blogger, wordpress, Joomla & etc.

Simple tutorial on how to add a customized mailchimp newsletter opt-in subscription form to blogger , joomla , wordpress, smf, drupal and any other website at all without the need of a plugin.

Just a day after using the mailchimp subscription box in my wordpress blog I noticed how awesome it could be having it in ones blog. With this in view I decided to explore it in many other platform I use for  business website creation .

add newsletter opt-in subscription form to after post content in blogger

Adding the form to joomla, wordpress, smf, drupal, Dreamweaver and simple html sites

Copy the code below and paste it any where you want the code to render mostly the sidebar and footer area. For smf you can use simple portals, simple adds mod or google adds mod to render it in the left block, right block, footer block, inside  thread content left and inside thread content right. For other cms and blogger sidebar you can use the html, text and javascript adding box to render it by pasting the code in it and positioning it to the right area .

Here is the code to copy

<div style="padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px;" class="contentBox" id="subscribeForm">
    <div style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 10px;">
      <form id="mysubscribeform" method="post" action="http://obasimvilla.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?"
      name="mysubscribeform">
        <input value="1d1c0a7d82f91db328bba6865" name="u" type="hidden" /> <input value=
        "ba46d7cfc3" name="id" type="hidden" />
 
        <div style="margin-bottom: 5px;">
          Email Address: <input value="" size="30" id="EMAIL" name="MERGE0" type="text"
          style="border:1px solid #BBBBBB;font-size:12px;padding:5px;" />
        </div>
 
        <div style="margin-bottom: 5px;">
          First Name : <input name="MERGE1" id="FNAME" size="30" value="" type="text"
          style="border:1px solid #BBBBBB;font-size:12px;padding:5px;" />
        </div>
 
        <div style="margin-bottom: 5px;">
          Last Name: <input name="MERGE2" id="LNAME" size="30" value="" type="text"
          style="border:1px solid #BBBBBB;font-size:12px;padding:5px;" />
        </div><input value="Subscribe" type="submit" style=
        "-moz-border-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px; background-color:#990000; border:1px solid #BBBBBB; color:#FFFFFF;cursor:pointer;font-weight:bold; padding:5px;" />
      </form> 
    </div>
  </div>


Custom Styling :

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you can change the background color of the “subscribe” box by replacing :#990000; with any color code of your choice
you can also re-size the boxes by replacing the 30 with any chosen size of your choice

Adding the mailchimp opt-in newsletter subscription form to after post content, before comments in blogger

As norms demands you have to backup your blogger template before editing the template directly.  After the backing up of your template you can now proceed with the following simple steps to add a more attractive newsletter opt-in form to blogger .

  1. log in to your blogger dashboard
  2. go to template and click on customize add newsletter to after post text on blogger
  3. Click on advance
  4. Click on add css and paste the following css code in the window
/* obasimvilla.com/how-to-add-mailchimp-newsletter-opt-in-form-to-blogger-joomla-smf-drupal-html-sites*/
 
#newsletterbox {
    background-color: #f5f5f5;
    border: 10px solid #e4e4e4;  
    margin-top: 30px;
}
#newsletterbox .white-border {
    border: 1px solid #fff;
}
.newsletterbox-wrap {
    background: url("http://i39.tinypic.com/1rq0pu.png") no-repeat scroll left top transparent;
    margin: -17px -18px;
    overflow: hidden;
    padding: 45px 30px 40px;
    text-align: center;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #fff;
}
 
.newsletterbox-wrap h4 {
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 26px;
}
 
.newsletterbox-wrap p {
    margin: 0 35px 20px;
    text-align: center;
}
.newsletterbox-wrap input[type="email"] {
    background: url("http://i41.tinypic.com/33tsbxz.png") no-repeat scroll left center #fff;
    box-shadow: 0 0 5px #ccc inset;
    color: #999;
    font-family: 'proxima-nova',sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    margin: 0 5px;
    padding: 15px 0 15px 45px;
    width: 40%;
}
 
.newsletterbox-wrap input[type="submit"] {
    box-shadow: 0 1px 1px #a24a1d;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: bold;
    padding: 10px 15px;
    text-transform: uppercase;
}


5. click on “apply to blog” and proceed to the next step

6. From the template again click on “edit HTML’ and search for

<data:post.body/> or
<p><data:post.body/></p>

for most templates, immediately below it paste this code

<div id="newsletterbox">
    <div class="white-border">
        <div class="newsletterbox-wrap">
<h4>Subscribe to Our Newsletter</h4>
<p>For a Limited Time, We are Offering Free Themes, Premium Tools, eBook & Stuff to our Premium Subscribers! Fill the form below to join our list for free.</p>
      <form id="mysubscribeform" method="post" action="http://obasimvilla.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?"
      name="mysubscribeform">
        <input value="1d1c0a7d82f91db328bba6865" name="u" type="hidden" /> <input value=
        "ba46d7cfc3" name="id" type="hidden" />
 
        <div style="margin-bottom: 5px;">
          Email Address: <input value="" size="50" id="EMAIL" name="MERGE0" type="text"
          style="border:1px solid #BBBBBB;font-size:12px;padding:5px;" />
        </div>
 
        <div style="margin-bottom: 5px;">
          First Name : <input name="MERGE1" id="FNAME" size="50" value="" type="text"
          style="border:1px solid #BBBBBB;font-size:12px;padding:5px;" />
        </div>
 
        <div style="margin-bottom: 5px;">
          Last Name: <input name="MERGE2" id="LNAME" size="50" value="" type="text"
          style="border:1px solid #BBBBBB;font-size:12px;padding:5px;" />
        </div><input value="Pls Get me in Now" type="submit" style=
        "-moz-border-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px; background-color:#018249; border:1px solid #BBBBBB; color:#FFFFFF;cursor:pointer;font-weight:bold; padding:5px;" />
      </form>
</div>
    </div>
</div>


save and preview any of your single post to confirm it is working really fine

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remember to add your own mailchimp variables following the guide on this article and the screenshot below

add opt-in form to after post text, before comments on blogger and smf

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Obasi Miracle is one of the brains behind 3rd Planet Techies. A webdesign afficionado and IT Support brain-box, he flourishes and revel in helping many-a-techies in their aspiration to become the best they can.

28 COMMENTS

  1. hi, how do i do this in blogger

    • Use the custom html and CSS code provided in the post body.

  2. Thank you for this. Just added one on my website!

  3. Akuneme christopher Akuneme christopher

    It is showing all over my home page, any idea how to make it appear only below a post without showing on homepage

    • Thanks for dropping by bro,

      What platform is that?

        • Interchange for various

          or

          for those of them that has more than 1.

          If there’s Google adsense or social media sharing icons manually added to the template already,
          You can figure the right position to place the code

  4. Akuneme christopher Akuneme christopher

    Nice tutorial bro, but how do i move the “pls get me in” button to the right instead of left

    • Just modify the CSS code to achieve that bro

  5. Thanks for your feedback Tags, do have a great week already

  6. i’ve already figured out the problem. I really appreciate your tutorial. many thanks.

  7. Hi Obasi,

    Thanks for this great tutorial,however I this message when I clicked subscribe.
    Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist.

    Can please walk me through this problem?

    Thanks

  8. after using the code on wordpress it was just showing me that of the default wordpress themes

    • Maybe you forgot adding moz border radius to your styling, please do check again

  9. Thanks for this tutorial, hopefully it’ll increase my subscriber

  10. It is a much more attractive form than I’ve used before. Thanks for the info which is really easy to understand.

  11. Great instructions. So important to have an opt in form on your blogs. I am not a mail chimp client but your opt in form looks great.

  12. Natalie Rodreguez Natalie Rodreguez

    Thanks! Great info, easy to read, awesome stuff to know, definitely will be implimenting this!

  13. Thanks man i have actually been looking for a good way to add a capture page to my blog :]

  14. Thanks for the info! Really good easy to understand your tutorials!

  15. before I switched to aweber I would always use mailchimp, which was a real pain in the ass for me, so it’s good help here for people who use mailchimp that’s for sure

    • Thanks for dropping by Nick, I will be trying aweber in the future when my subscribers base increases

  16. Love this great step by step instruction. Thanks

  17. Thanks for the info! Very handy :)

  18. Great instruction! Thanks!

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