Minimum theme – replace subscribe button with e-mail optin

[Susan]

I'm trying to replace the "subscribe" button on the home page with an e-mail sign-up box, and a "go" button.  The client doesn't want to be redirected to another page to enter their e-mail address.

I've added widget areas with newsletter sign-ups, but I'm not sure how to replace it on this theme.

Thoughts?

[Robert Neu]

Hey Susan,

If you need some help with this, ping me on Skype. Username is the same as my Twitter handle. 🙂

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[WMcKinley]

I would be very interested in the procedure to do this as well,  for future reference.

Please share if you don't mind 😉

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W. McKinley – PowerEmini.com

[Robert Neu]

The procedure will be little different depending on how you are  gathering the info. I can probably write up a tutorial for both GravityForms and Genesis E-News Extended and post it to my blog if that would help. I'll try to get to it this weekend.

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[Susan]

Robert - that would be great. I know how  to add a widgeted area with an e-mail sign-up and button, but this theme having the page-title.php in addition to the home and functions files is just throwing me for a loop.

I was able to add a newsletter sign-up area on the home page, just not in the area I needed, so any assistance would be appreciated!

Edited to add - we're looking at using the Genesis e-news extended widget versus gravity forms (I've used both myself)

[Susan]

Thanks, Robert for your assistance this afternoon!

[Susan]

@WMcKinley:

You need to register a widget area in the theme functions file (mine looks like this):

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'				=> 'home-email',
	'name'			=> __( 'Home Email Signup', 'minimum' ),
	'description'	=> __( 'This is an email registration box on the home page.', 'minimum' ),
) );

and then hook it in the page-title php:

if ( is_home() ) {
	echo '';
		echo '';
			echo'' . esc_html( get_bloginfo( 'description' ) ) . '';
			
			if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-email' ) ) {
				genesis_widget_area( 'home-email', array(
					'before' => '',
				) );
			}
		
		echo'';
	echo'';
}

Then, in your stylesheet, you would want to add some styling (which I haven't done yet!)

I added the Genesis e-news Extended widget to the e-mail widget area.

[WMcKinley]

This is fantastic Susan and I truly appreciate you sharing the code.

I have saved it to my bag of tricks for future use.

I hadn't really thought about adding a sign-up form to the Title area, but I can see cases where it would make sense.

Cheers!

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W. McKinley – PowerEmini.com

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