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Paid account holders have access to an advanced mode for creating and editing Mailchimp's hosted signup forms and response emails. This is an advanced feature and is recommended for users familiar with custom coding. Contact your developer, or hire a Mailchimp Expert if you need assistance.
To access the Advanced Forms tool, follow these steps.
You can customize most Mailchimp audience management forms, emails, and confirmation screens.
When you customize, make sure you don't alter the unique Form tags, field names, and merge tags, because they're connected to the audience and need to stay the same. The following image shows highlighted areas of what you can and shouldn't edit.
You can also set up meta redirects to send users to custom thank you pages on your website. The following is the meta redirect code you'll want to use. Make sure to replace http://www.yourwebsite.com/ with the URL you want to redirect to.
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.yourwebsite.com/"/>
Here's how to set up the meta redirect.
<head>
section of the thank you page's code.If you prefer to handle signup form errors on your own, instead of having Mailchimp manage them, use a META redirect to pass signup form data back to your domain using this code.
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url=http://www.domain.com/newsletter.phtml?EMAIL="*|EMAIL|*"&FNAME="*|FNAME|*"&LNAME="*|LNAME|*"">
The URL should be a full path to your newsletter subscriber page. To grab the audience variables' names, navigate to your audience settings and view the fields and associated merge tags.
To complete this process, you'll need to know how to process GET variables in your site and make sure your audience id is a part of any form you submit back to our domain.
Instead of using a META redirect, you could also use our API. You'll still most likely want to add a META redirect on the final confirmation screen to make the sign-up process feel totally seamless to your subscribers.
To add a hidden field to your advanced form code, follow these steps.
<input type="hidden" name="FNAME" value="*|FNAME|*">
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