Apologies to those who have been trying to subscribe my blog through the email Subscribe button above! I made a typo on the form codes and haven’t realized it up till now (a fellow member from Entrecard told me about it, thanks again). It’s been fixed and you can now subscribe with your email address!
If you don’t know yet, you can get my latest posts delivered to your inbox just by subscribing through the form above. Just enter your email address, and every time I post a new article, it will be delivered to your inbox automatically.
If you are a blogger who’s using the same theme and would like to know how to modify the code for the email subscribe above, please read on.
This guide is assuming that you are using the WP Premium theme and the Feedburner service.
What you need to do:
Go to your Feedburner dashboard. On your browser’s URL, make note of the numbers next to the “id”. This is your blog’s feed id. (The URL should be something like: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=YOUR_ID)
Now, edit the header.php file, try to find (use CTRL-F on your browser) these lines:
<div class="subscribeform">
<p>Subscribe via Email</p>
Modify the line to:
<div class="subscribeform">
<p>Subscribe via Email</p>
<form action="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=YOUR_ID" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="loc" value="en_US" />
<input type="hidden" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=YOUR_ID" name="url" />
<input type="hidden" value="YOUR_SITE/BLOG_TITLE" name="title" />
<input type="text" name="email" value="" class="input" />
<input type="submit" class="sbutton" value="Subscribe" />
</form>
</div>
That’s it! Please let me know whether it works for you and don’t be shy to ask if you are still stuck and can’t make it work.
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The best advice for this aswell is to subscribe your own blog through your email subscription so that you will know how it look in someone else’s email and if it delivers alright.
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Hi Iris,
After migrating to this new theme, I migrated the code which I “assumed” works correctly.
I did. Well, I did before I changed the theme
Being a developer, I should have learnt to never assume. Oh well, no excuse for me this time!
Glad I was able to help. There have been a few times when people have noticed things about my site that needed to be fixed and let me know.
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Thank you for your instructions on how to fix the subscribe… Mine works great now!!
Sissy
Hi Michael!
Thanks for the walk through. I have one problem, though. I was able to get the e-mail subscription form to work, however, my RSS button disappears! I’m using a modified version of this theme, but I don’t see why it should be affected. Do you have any advice? Thanks!
-Bob
Haha, I figured it out – the problem was just a simple mistoke on the keyboard. Had me baffled for far too long! Just goes to show ya. Once again, thanks for the tutorial!
LoL I was about to read your comment and try to find out what might go wrong
Hi,
Thanxs for this tip. I;ve been using WP Premium, all this time, and was never able to fix the RSS Email Sub box.
I had forgotten about it, till i re-visited the theme site. I happen to have found your response, tried it, and it worked.
Thanxs!
No problem, Missy. As you can see, I’m not using the theme anymore, but glad that this post still helps those that do!
I can get RSS working but after following your instructions the email subscription thingy doesn’t work. I think it must be a problem with feedburner or something.
Hi,
just wanted to thank you for your help – cheers
Omar
AWESOME! Worked great…just forgot to enter in the ID in both places but after I figured that out – worked like a charm. Thank you!
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Yes, works fine. Thanx a lot!
Thanks for the advice! I updated my feedburner account to allow email subscriptions. It provided me with code to use, but I used yours instead. I put my ID into the code and put it into my header.php. Although my subscription button is now linking over to feedburner, when I try to subscribe, I get hit with ‘The feed does not have subscriptions by email enabled’. Any thoughts? Does it take some time on Feedburners end to update my account? On their site it says I now have an active email subscription…so I’m kind of at a loss. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks again!
Try this code (as I’ve noticed that you’ve already moved your Feedburner to Google’s):
(change the YOUR_FEED_NAME with yours. Mine is MichaelAulia).
Also change “[" to "< " and "]” to “>”
[div class="subscribeform"]
[p>Subscribe via Email [form action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=YOUR_FEED_NAME " method="get"]
[input type="hidden" name="loc" value="en_US" /]
[input type="hidden" name="uri” value=”YOUR_FEED_NAME” /]
[input type="text" name="email" value="" class="input" /]
[input type="submit" class="sbutton" value="Subscribe" /]
[/form]
[/div]
your code doesn’t work with my feed. it says: “The feed does not have subscriptions by email enabled”
1 – I have replaced your code with the old code
2 – I have made an account on Google Feedburner
3 – I have activated the email subscription from subscription management
4 – I have put my Fedburner ID in your 2 codes, where it says “YOUR_ID”
And it doesn’t work. I’m getting this error: “The feed does not have subscriptions by email enabled”