How to create a WordPress to Mailchimp landing page

Jun 1, 2016

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in WordPress, Pootle page builder, Video Tutorials

How to create a WordPress to Mailchimp landing page

I often get asked when running my WordPress training courses ‘how do you create a WordPress to Mailchimp landing page‘.

So here’s a short tutorial that shows you a nice simple way to do it.

To achieve this I’m using the following three plugins

Mailchimp for WordPress – this lets you create your forms and link your WordPress website to Mailchimp.
Pootle Pagebuilder – this lets you create cool looking landing pages in WordPress.
Site Origin CSS – this lets you tweak the design of your Mailchimp form.

Introduction

Connect your WordPress website to Mailchimp

Create your landing page

Comments

18 responses to “How to create a WordPress to Mailchimp landing page”

Lee

October 11, 2016

Absolute fantastic tutorial. It’s so good to be able to follow along. So many of these online tutorials go to fast and take for granted that some people following them are not familiar with what a plugin even is. Thank You great job

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1. Jamie Marsland
  
  October 11, 2016
  
  Thanks Lee 🙂
  
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Elrond

January 19, 2017

Very cool, thanks for putting that together with nice short videos, Jamie!

Is there a way to include a hidden field in the form that maps to a Mailchimp field used for segmentation? I want 2 or 3 landing pages for different content and I want to know which landing page new subscribers have come from (ie what content they requested to download). I know how to add the code for a standard Mailchimp form, but can’t see any way of doing it in the Mailchimp for WordPress plugin
Cheers, Elrond

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1. Elrond
  
  January 20, 2017
  
  I guess another way it might work would be if Mailchimp would recognise each form on my WordPress site as a different source and I could then segment the list by source. Thoughts on getting that to work?
  Thanks!
  
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Alleah

February 4, 2017

Hello,
Nice video, but I have followed directions and I do not have the “customize page” icon on the top menu. When I click “customize” I’m customizing all the pages. Please advise. Thanks.

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Luk

February 27, 2017

Hi,

Great video, thanks.

I would like to have this landing page (created as a Live page) shown under my main domain address (not as a subpage).
What should I do?

Thanks,
Luk

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oussama touzni

April 1, 2017

Hi , thanks for those very informative videos !

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1. Jamie Marsland
  
  April 5, 2017
  
  Thanks oussama 🙂
  
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Alexis

April 1, 2017

Absolute brilliant tutorial. Excelent way of teaching Mailchimp with WP. Thanks.

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1. Jamie Marsland
  
  April 5, 2017
  
  Thanks Alexis 🙂
  
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amanda

June 6, 2017

thanks for the advice and videos! the one thing i still can’t do is make it so when they click sign up it gives them something by redirecting them. so i am trying to get them to provide their email to access some information, and ill need that to pop up as soon as they subscribe, any advice? I’ve been trying for a while and a number of plugging with not much luck, i tried mail munch part of mail chimp which done it perfect for the desktop site (www.shoottheroute.com/travel) but on a phone the text is all over the place and doesn’t seem to scale like it does on other pages. it also adds a HUGE chunk at the bottom advertising mail much which looks awful! so its not useable. can you help? Thanks in advance! 🙂

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Danielle

June 8, 2017

Hi, I have downloaded the plugin but it did not work for me. When I created the live page I was not able to edit the page at all. Any suggestions???
It did have in the information that Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress.

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1. Jamie Marsland
  
  June 8, 2017
  
  Hi , this is likely caused by another plugin causing a problem (especially any caching plugins)
  
  Could you de-activate to test
  
  let me know
  Jamie
  
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2. Ian
  
  April 17, 2018
  
  Hi Danielle, I had this problem also! I host with SiteGround who are AMAZING, and I got onto support as it was something to do with a file that would not allow the plugin use due to my domain being secure across it’s entirety.
  
  They must have done something to change a file that got it all working perfectly for me.
  
  Hope your hosting provider can help you to resolve your own issue.
  
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Dave

June 14, 2017

Well, what you really want from a squeeze page is it is the first page that comes up when you go to the site. When someone fills in their email (and perhaps you give them something for giving you their email address), it should then add them to the mail list and then take them to your actual home page.

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john

June 15, 2017

I cant find the customization page to hide the header and the footer,what do I do to make it appear on my dashboard?

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1. AJ Sorensen
  
  June 29, 2017
  
  Couldn’t either, but under page builder in the menu, you can clik upgrade.
  
  Apparently you have to pay 99$ a year for the premium version, where this feature is available.
  
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Dina

October 16, 2017

Great tutorial! Thanks so much.

Is it possible to have a separate thank you page that loads after the form is submitted?

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