Mailchimp Newsletter

I put my Mailchimp code into the Newsletter plugin provided by the Newspaper theme. When user click subscribe they are redirected to the Mailchimp site rather than seeing the default Mailchimp JS “thank you for subscribing” message. How can I fix this?

Thank you.

The redirect code is javascript. I opened a ticket with them and they said the issue is with the theme plugin.

Thank you.

Here is my Mailchimp embedded form code.

<!-- Begin Mailchimp Signup Form -->
<link href="//cdn-images.mailchimp.com/embedcode/classic-10_7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
	#mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; }
	/* Add your own Mailchimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block.
	   We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML file. */
</style>
<div id="mc_embed_signup">
<form action="https://welcometospacelounge.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=70a4cd21e573c5ea055e67c60&id=d055bc6e63" method="post" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" class="validate" target="_blank" novalidate>
    <div id="mc_embed_signup_scroll">
	<h2>Subscribe</h2>
<div class="indicates-required"><span class="asterisk">*</span> indicates required</div>
<div class="mc-field-group">
	<label for="mce-EMAIL">Email Address  <span class="asterisk">*</span>
</label>
	<input type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="required email" 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>    <!-- real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups-->
    <div style="position: absolute; left: -5000px;" aria-hidden="true"><input type="text" name="b_70a4cd21e573c5ea055e67c60_d055bc6e63" tabindex="-1" value=""></div>
    <div class="clear"><input type="submit" value="Subscribe" name="subscribe" id="mc-embedded-subscribe" class="button"></div>
    </div>
</form>
</div>
<script type='text/javascript' src='//s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.mailchimp.com/js/mc-validate.js'></script><script type='text/javascript'>(function($) {window.fnames = new Array(); window.ftypes = new Array();fnames[0]='EMAIL';ftypes[0]='email'; }(jQuery));var $mcj = jQuery.noConflict(true);</script>
<!--End mc_embed_signup-->

Hi @sasquatters,

Try using Unstyled form from mailchimp dashboard.

Hope you will find this helpful.

I think you’re misunderstanding. I do not want to be directed to the Mailchimp site after clicking submit. The “classic” form includes a JS call that is supposed to publish a message at the bottom of the form after submission that says “thank you for signing up” Your plugin is not displaying this message and is instead directing users to the Mailchimp site.

That is unfortunate. The javascript should work, show the thank you message, and keep people on the page. Please put this in as a feature request. I’m sure this is desired by many.

If you use column text and WP Editor I got it to work just fine.

I couldn’t figure it out with Mailchimp though (it seems to be designed by the guy also designs electric bills), but mailerlite works fine (no redirect or external page needed).