How to Make a Mailchimp Contact Form in WordPress [4 Steps!]

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Did you know email marketing has the highest return on investment for small businesses?

Whether you’re a small business or not, there’s a lesson to be learned here: email marketing is essential for your website. Email is an important part of your marketing strategy.

And Mailchimp is one of many email marketing services that hope to be your solution.

If you tried to add a Mailchimp contact form to WordPress, you know using its built-in form builder isn’t a fun experience.

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It's confusing to use at first, and customization options aren't the best.

But there's good news: a better solution exists!

This post will show you how to make a Mailchimp contact form using one of the most powerful form builder plugins: Formidable Forms.

Let's start it off.

Why make a MailChimp contact form?

Don't overlook a contact form’s effectiveness if you want to grow your Mailchimp mailing list.

Your Mailchimp Contact Us form can generate leads in bunches if correctly set up. This can lead to more transactional emails in the future.

You can add a Mailchimp form to WordPress to make your life headache-free.

Rather than manually adding contacts to your audience, you can automatically add them and tag them at the same time.

Best of all, you can apply a tag based on the post or page they signed up. This is key for segmenting your audience to filter out what they don’t want to see.

Why send a product sale to them if they didn't sign up to see it?

🤔 Did you know?

You can have complete control over your Mailchimp email list. You just need this WordPress signup form plugin 💪.

One idea is to subscribe visitors to an automated email marketing campaign on form submissions. So, this automation can be made specifically for customers who use your contact us form for Mailchimp. Assigning groups is another form of segmenting.

A potential customer is different from a newsletter subscriber. Why treat them the same way?

Segmenting contacts is an easy way to improve your customer experience today.

How to add Mailchimp to WordPress contact forms

From start to finish, creating a Mailchimp form for your WordPress site should take less than 10 minutes, and you’ll be off and running with growing your Mailchimp audience.

First, you’ll need to get Formidable Forms premium plan for Mailchimp integration. Then, install and activate Formidable Forms, and you’re ready to go.

Here are four simple steps to follow:

Find your Mailchimp API key
Install the Formidable and add your API key
Create a new contact form in Formidable and adjust Mailchimp settings
Display your form

Step 1: Find your Mailchimp API key

First, we have to integrate your contact forms from Mailchimp. We’ll do this by getting your Mailchimp API key.

To find your API key, log into your Mailchimp account, and go to Account → Extras → API Keys.

Click Create A Key if you don't have one already.

Keep your Mailchimp API key handy for a few minutes since you'll need it in the next step.

Step 2: Install the Formidable and add your API key

First, you'll need to install and activate the Formidable Mailchimp WordPress add-on. You'll find the Mailchimp add-on in the Add-Ons section of Formidable.

Next, go into your WordPress Dashboard → Formidable → Global Settings and click the Mailchimp tab.

Insert your Mailchimp API Key from step 2 and click the Update Options button. Your website is now connected to your Mailchimp account!

Enter your API into the API Key field in the Formidable Forms plugin

Let's move on to step 3.

Step 3: Create a new contact form in Formidable and adjust Mailchimp settings

You'll need to create a contact form (or signup form) to get started.

You can save time by using the Contact Form template. Our pre-made templates make it easy for you to get started quickly.

If you want to use our simple drag-and-drop builder, you can easily customize your form using a Blank Form. Add an email address field, checkboxes, and any other form fields you want, and save your form by clicking Update.

When editing your contact form, click on Settings → Form Actions. You’ll see the action Add to Mailchimp.

Select the Mailchimp list where you would like to add subscribers. And you're finished!

Step 4: Display your form

Now that we’ve created your form and learned how to connect Mailchimp to WordPress, it’s time to display your form.

So, go to the post/page where you want to show your form.

Add a new WordPress block and then search for the Formidable block. Select the block, then choose your contact form from the dropdown menu.

Update your page, and your form is ready to get emails!

We have the option to embed your form if you prefer a Mailchimp embed contact form!

Simply go to Formidable → Forms and select the <> next to your form. Next, select Insert Manually copy the shortcode. Formidable uses this for embedded forms.

Last, go to your post/page and paste the shortcode into a Shortcode block. Update your page and your form will be displayed.

Why Formidable Forms for your Mailchimp contact forms in WordPress

Formidable is the most powerful form builder in the plugin world. Its features, WordPress-Mailchimp integration, and ease of use make it a Swiss Army knife in plugin form.

First, customization is easy. Easily design your form to look how you want it. Borders, buttons, backgrounds; it’s all here.

Easily set the input type hidden if setting up a password field. Or create a Likert Scale for a quick visitor survey.

Formidable Form's drag-and-drop form builder

Next are our amazing contact form templates. You have a pre-made form to save time on your setup process with a couple of mouse clicks. Contact, registration, payment, we’ve thought of it all.

And it’s easy to embed your Mailchimp contact form on your website.

Last, Mailchimp signup forms are easy with Formidable. You can even go beyond Mailchimp’s form abilities. As we mentioned above, Formidable offers segmenting options that Mailchimp doesn’t.

So extra data from your app for signup doesn’t have to waste. You can use it to learn more about your subscribers and help them better.

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Formidable even makes displaying a Mailchimp contact popup form easy to show.

That’s what makes it the best Mailchimp for WordPress plugin.

Take your Mailchimp contact form and embed it on your site

Making a contact form for Mailchimp is just the start.

The next step is to embed the Mailchimp form in WordPress. All you need is the form code. Once you embed your contact form for Mailchimp on your site, you can start getting leads for your email list. And with Mailchimp features like behavioral targeting, your power is unlimited!

This post taught you how to connect WordPress to Mailchimp so you can get emails today. And you learned how using Mailchimp with WordPress is even easier with Formidable Forms.

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