Create a Subscription Form with our Form Editor

What's the difference between a subscription form and a contact form?

A subscription form is used to collect email addresses from users interested in receiving updates or marketing content. Through this form, subscribers will be added to the MailPoet list of your choice and you'll be able to send them newsletters.

A contact form is used for general communication between users and website owners/support teams. If you're looking at a contact form, we recommend using a 3rd-party plugin such as Contact Form 7 that integrates with MailPoet.

The MailPoet Form Editor uses the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg). To create a form, you should go to MailPoet > Forms > + New Form. You can choose from one of our pre-designed templates for the different types of forms or create yours from scratch. 

The Form Editor

Settings

• Select the list your subscribers will be added to when subscribing through this form;
• Choose if they're going to see a message after subscribing or be redirected to a new page.

If you don't want to pre-select these lists and would rather allow your subscribers to select which lists they want to join, add a block called List Selection. To do this, click on the " +" icon to open the popup with the options and search for List Selection.

Styles

In the Styles tab, you can customize how your form will look like by changing the settings for:

• Background Color
• Background Image
• Font Color
• Font Size
• Font Family
• Input Padding
• Border Size
• Border Radius
• Border Color
• Alignment
• Form Padding
• Success Message Color
• Error Message Color
• Close Button Style

Form Placement

You can choose to display the form:

When selecting the form option, you'll be able to see its settings where you can set it to be displayed on all pages and/or all pages and products, or only on specific pages and/or posts from a specific category/tag.

For the "Shortcode & other" option, you can choose to:

• Add the form as a Gutenberg block or a shortcode to your pages and/or posts;
• Add the form as a widget;
• Get the PHP code to integrate it with your theme or the iFrame version if you want to use it on an external website.

Tags

You can set a Subscriber tag or tags that you want to assign to any Subscribers who sign up via this form:

Custom CSS

You can style your form components with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS.) When saving your form, all the styles added in this panel will also be saved - there is no need to add these styles to your own theme's stylesheet. 

Block

Adding a block

Just click on the " +" icon to open the popup with the options to search for a block and manage default and custom fields.

When expanding a panel ( i.e. Fields), you'll see all the block options for it.

If you've already created a form using the new editor, you'll see also a panel for the Most used blocks.

By clicking on an option, it will be automatically added to your form editor as a new block. 

To see ALL the fields (including custom fields created), you should click on the "Browse all" button and a sidebar will be displayed with all the fields available to be added to your form:

Creating a custom field

To create a custom field, you should click on the "+" icon to add a block > Browse all > scroll down to the "Custom fields" section and click on the "Create custom field" option:

Editing a block

When selecting a block, you can edit its settings in the  Block tab on your form editor's sidebar.

There you have the option to customize the field's Settings, Styles, and add custom CSS via the Advanced tab.

You can move your blocks up and down by using the arrow buttons.

Removing a block

To remove it from the form, simply select the block and click on the 3 dots icon.

Removing a custom field

To completely delete a custom field from all forms, you have to first add it to form and then click on the " Delete this custom field" link in the Custom field settings.