Versions 1.0.0-1.7.3
Caution: This is an advanced tutorial and is not supported by Shopify. Knowledge of web design languages such as HTML, CSS, Javascript and Liquid is required. We suggest hiring a Shopify Expert if you are not comfortable proceeding with the following tutorial. If you do proceed, we strongly recommend making a copy of the theme before editing.
By default, the newsletter sign up in the footer, blog post sidebar and password page will create a customer account that accepts marketing using the added email. If you would prefer to integrate your Mailchimp account, these emails could automatically be added to an existing list.
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To edit theme files:
- From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes
- Click Actions > Edit code
- Open the Config folder
- Open settings_schema.json
Within the file, code has to be added. PC users open the find feature with 'Ctrl+F' & Mac users use 'Command+F':
Find:
"name": "Social media",
"settings": [
Replace:
"name": "Social media",
"settings": [
{
"type": "header",
"content": "MailChimp"
},
{
"type": "text",
"id": "mailchimp",
"label": "Add MailChimp form action URL",
"info": "Follow [these instructions](https:\/\/redplugdesign.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360011955754\/)"
},
{
"type": "text",
"id": "mailchimp_signup",
"label": "Button"
},
Next, visit Mailchimp and create an account if you do not already have one.
- After accessing your account, click 'Audience' in the upper left
- Select an existing list, or create a new one using the grey 'Create list' button in the upper right
- Once in the list click 'Manage Audience' in the upper right, 'Signup forms', then 'Embedded Forms'
- Within the 'Copy/paste onto your site', you will want to copy the 'form action=' URL between the quotation marks, see the underlined text below as an example:
- form action="https://site.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=###"
- Paste this into the new input in the Social Media section of the editor:
