Wordpress - edit font and set up auto responder

Hi Nick,

I'll be installing it yet today or tomorrow. Will watch this thread if you still have problems. I'll post the modifications needed in Wordpress when I make the changes on mine.

(Not trying to put you off.. :-) Just have to finish a couple of other things first.

Mike

OK. I set up my first account and installed the YMLP (Your Mailing List Provider) on one of my sites today. Since I have never done a set up for any type of mailing list before it took me a good half a day to get everything right.

But, I'd say that doing it for a entirely new campaign on another site would take less than an hour now that I understand how the system works.

The YMLP website and their online interface works quite well. It is very intuitive, and you can make a lot of changes there when you are doing your setup and can't really 'break' anything. You set your options. If you don't like them or find you should have done them differently you simply go back and change them.

There is only one thing I would warn you to watch out for if you are new to doing this like I was. When you are doing your settings on the YMLP site for setting up the form where your user will enter his email address they show a number of options on the first page of this section and at the bottom they show the text of the message that will be displayed. (This is on their: Website Forms-Create/Edit Forms.)

You will want to change the wording in the Form Preview at the bottom of the page. DON'T DO IT!

Just be happy with the wording at first and get all your other settings on this page and the other necessary pages completed first. Enter all your info. Do your testing to make sure the opt-in responses and email capturing works. Then, when everything else is done, go back to the message at the bottom of the Website Forms-Create/Edit Forms page and fix it all up and make it pretty to your hearts content.

The reason I am saying this is because you don't realize at first that you may want to change some of the other options at the top of this page after you get familiar with the system and do some testing. If you make any changes at the top of the page, the site regenerates the log-in form text (and HTML) that you (me) just spent an hour making all pretty and you can't get it back. So save formatting the email capture code until last.

Otherwise I give YMLP a pretty big thumbs up. By the time I finish writing this I should have my first new subscribers on my list. This will be interesting and fun.

Enough about YMLP. You asked about integrating it with WordPress. Here's a secret I'll share with you. It is absolutely no problem at all. YMLP gives you three options for putting the email capture form on your site.

1. Is to copy and paste the Html code they provide. This would work in WordPress ok. The problem is that any changes you make in your settings on YMLP require you to regen the HTML and copy it into your site again. A major pain.

2. & 3. Are javascript options. Very cool. You can either insert the javascript code that will display the form on one of the pages on your site or you can insert the javascript code that will show a fairly nice call to action button on your site and then the sign up form is served from YMLP's site. Both of these options are quick and easy with just a couple of lines of javascript code. The only problem here is getting them to work with WordPress.

At first blush I didn't think it would work. Then I found a free plugin called Javascript in WordPress Posts. It's a very small light plugin and works like a charm.

So the answer to how do you integrate YMLP with WordPress is 'no problem'. Install the plugin. I used the served button so I only had to copy one line of javascript into the page I used on my WordPress site and I was good to go.

I'm not saying the whole experience was a breeze. If you are really new to this I'd brew a pot of coffee before tackling it. But it really was fairly straightforward once you understand how it all needs to work to get a double opt in. And you really can't 'break' anything.

So I'd say give it a try.