(The following instructions for putting the opt-in form code on your site are based on using AWeber. If you’ve chosen a different autoresponder system, you’ll need to modify them appropriately, based on instructions provided by your system.)
From within AWeber, click on the Leads tab in the top navigation menu.
Click on Web Form Generator
Click on Create new web form
Fill in the form:
1. Form Name – whatever you want to call it; no one else will see this)
2. Type – select In-Line.
3. Background color – leave this blank if you want, or pick a color to go with your site.
4. Headline – Enter the text you want shown just above the form.
5. Input Fields – select Email Text, Name Text
6. Submit Button Caption – enter something more interesting than “submit” (i.e., “Begin Free E-Class”)
7. Thank You Page – enter the URL of your home page (or a different page of your choice)
8. Use New Window – do NOT check this
9. Forward Variables – do NOT check this
10. Ad Tracking – Leave blank
11. Message Number – select (Default) 1 autoresponse
12. Dimensions – Leave as is
Click on Save. A new page will come up that says Success: your web form has been saved.
Click on Get HTML (in the one-row table under Web Forms). A new window will open.
Copy the HTML Code in the botton box of the HTML code window.
Go to your WPM site administration page.
Click on the Presentation tab
Click on Widgets
Select and Drag a New Text Widget up to your Sidebar. Open the text widget and enter the html code from aweber into the text widget and save it.
Instructions below are for the older sites that do not use widgets
1. Open your FTP program
2. Go to /public_html/wp-content/themes/ (and the theme format you’ve chosen, such as contentdesk-2-col-right)
3. Select the sidebar.php file and open Properties
4. Change permissions to 777 (select Read, Write, Execute options if using SmartFTP)
5. Click OK
6. Go back to WPM
Decide where on your WPM site’s sidebar you want your Opt-In form to show (it should be at the top; in this example, we’ll place it right under the Translator image).
Paste the java script code you copied from AWeber into the appropriate place within your sidebar code. For our example, under Translator, insert it right after these 2 lines:
<?php create_translator_bar(); ?>\\ </div>\\ NOTE: If you don’t want it “crowding” your Translator bar, insert a break first <br> -- and then paste the java script code.
Click on Update File to save.
View Site to see how it looks.
Remember to go back and reset the permissions of your Sidebar file to 644 via your FTP program.