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    Home » Food Blog Design and Appearance

    Subscribe button

    Published: Feb 13, 2021 · Modified: Mar 18, 2022 by Skylar · 9 Comments

    This tutorial features the Feast Plugin, which enhances and extends your theme to improve SEO, pagespeed, accessibility and user experience.

    The Modern Menu integrates a "Subscribe" button that provides a call-to-action for readers to sign up for your newsletter the entire time they're on your site.

    This allows you to:

    • increase pagespeed by removing javascript provided by newsletter providers from every page on your site
    • improve accessibility by removing forms that lack proper headings and form labels
    • improve CLS by preventing forms from forcing the browser to re-render the page when it loads
    • improve user experience by removing annoying pop overs
    • only load javascript on a single page, reducing potential javascript conflicts
    • provide a better user experience, giving them a subscribe button when they want to subscribe, not at an intrusive point in your content

    See the rethinking the newsletter post for further details.

    Jump to:
    • Examples
    • Subscribe URL
    • Grow.me

    Examples

    Subscribe URL

    The subscribe button is hardcoded to point to a page with the slug "/subscribe". This page must be manually created like a normal page (title = "subscribe").

    If you want to use a different URL or redirect to an off-site form (not recommended), you'll want to create a 301 redirect using Yoast.

    Grow.me

    If you have the Social Grow plugin from Mediavine, you have the option to implement their click-to-subscribe feature.

    This only appears if the plugin is active.

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    Comments

    1. Katy McAvoy says

      March 16, 2021 at 4:39 pm

      How do I connect the Subscribe button to a form action? When I check the box, it adds it to my mobile menu, but then I get a 404 error if I click on it and I'm not seeing where I'm supposed to put in the form action link.

      Reply
      • Skylar says

        March 18, 2021 at 8:25 am

        You simply create a page with the slug "subscribe" and embed your form into that page.

        Reply
    2. Louise Dam says

      May 05, 2021 at 2:13 pm

      How do I translate the 'subscribe' button to danish?

      Reply
      • Skylar says

        May 05, 2021 at 5:39 pm

        This will be available in version 5.6.2, we've added a "Translation" section above.

        Reply
        • Louise Dam says

          May 06, 2021 at 3:59 am

          Perfect! Thank you for a quick response 🙂

          Reply
    3. Marco says

      July 26, 2021 at 1:53 pm

      How do I connect the subscribe button to a landing page in mailchimp?

      Reply
      • Skylar says

        July 26, 2021 at 3:17 pm

        Create a 301 from the /subscribe/ page to the Mailchimp landing page.

        But we don't recommed this - instead, embed the Mailchimp form directly onto the /subscribe/ page so that readers stay on your site.

        Reply
    4. Josh says

      August 30, 2021 at 2:31 am

      Hello 🙂

      I'm not sure if this is a common error or not. I created the subscribe page and embedded my ConvertKit form, but when I click on the subscribe button I'm taken to an Index page instead. If you have any recommendations/suggestions on how to fix this, I would greatly appreciate it.

      Reply
    5. Burney http://dns-shop.ru says

      December 11, 2021 at 2:43 pm

      Burney

      Reply

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