Setup Newsletter Signup Form

Upscale comes with MailChimp for WordPress plugin to create newsletter signup form. The signup form can be displayed in the widget area and newsletter pop-up of your website. To add a MailChimp newsletter form, you need to create a MailChimp Account first if you don’t have one. Install and activate the plugin, and then set up your signup form.

MailChimp Setting

1. After installing and activating the plugin, go to MailChimp for WP > Mailchimpsection from your dashboard.
2. Add your MailChimp API key (use Get your API key here link to obtain your key) then click Save Changes.
3. Go to MailChimp for WP > Forms, check your list for ‘Lists this form subscribes to’ option to set which list will be used for subscription on MailChimp.
4. Customize the form to your liking, then click Save Changes.

NOTE: You may use the field generator for the easiest way in creating form

5. Copy the shortcode at the bottom of form setting to display this form inside a post, page or text widget; next we will try to create the form in the widget area.

6. Go to Appearance > Customize > Widget.
7. Choose an available widget area to input the form, then add ‘MailChimp Sign-Up Form’ widget into it.
8. Paste the shortcode in the box.
9. Hit the save & publish

Pop-up Setting

After setting up the MailChimp form, you can use the shortcode to create pop-up signup form.

1. Go to Appearance > Customize > General > Newsletter.
2. Enable the newsletter pop-up option.
3. Paste the MailChimp shortcode in the Newsletter Form.
4. Fill in the heading and text for the pop-up form.
5. Select the interval when you want the pop-up form appears.
6. Upload images for the pop-up form; you can upload up to 3 images for the pop-up.
7. Click Save & Publish.

NOTE: If you can’t directly see your customization on the live customizer, you need to Save & Publish it first.