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1. Add your MailChimp API key to WordPress.

• Navigate to your WordPress site’s administrative dashboard.
• Click on “MC4WP” from the left sidebar. (MC4WP stands for “Mailchimp for WordPress”.)
• Click on the “Get your API key here” link. You’ll be taken to a MailChimp sign-in page.
• Once you have signed in to MailChimp, you should have the ability to add a new API key. Do that.
• Copy your key and go back to the “MC4WP” page. Paste in the API key.
• Click “Save Changes.”

2. Create a sign up form in WordPress.

• Click “Form” under “MC4WP” to begin creating a form.
• Type the form title, then click “add new form”.

• Copy the following HTML code into the “Form code” field.

<p>
  <label for="form-email">Email Address <span class="red">*</span></label>
    <input type="email" name="EMAIL" id="form-email" required>
</p>
<p>
    <label>First Name</label>
    <input type="text" name="FNAME">
</p>
<p>
    <label>Last Name</label>
    <input type="text" name="LNAME">
</p>
<p><span class="red">*</span> = required field</p>
<p>
    <input class="button success postfix" type="submit" value="Subscribe">
</p>

• Click “Save Changes.”

3. Add your sign-up form to your sidebar or footer

• Click “Customize” from the dashboard’s “Appearance” menu.
• Click “Widgets” from the menu.
• You can choose between adding the widget to your sidebar or footer. Up to you.
• Click “Add a Widget” and then “Mailchimp Sign-up Form.”
• Click “Publish” at the top.

Hopefully, this post has been helpful! If you have trouble reach out to us at caesweb@uga.edu.