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Creating a form for a newsletter

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Creating a form for a newsletter

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- [Instructor] Now that our site is connected to MailChimp, we need to make a form to capture their information, and send it to our newsletter service. Let's go to Ninja Forms add new. I'll scroll down and there is a MailChimp signup form already created. So I'll click on that. This top field is a note reminding us how to set up our MailChimp api key. We've already done this, so we can delete it. Let's go ahead and take a preview at what this looks like. And we can see there's a little sentence, an email field and a subscribe button. This is pretty good, but I generally also like to get someone's first name. So let's go back to our form. I'll click the plus button and add first name. And I'll move this above email. Now we need to choose what email list we want to subscribe the user to, and we need to map fields from Ninja Forms to MailChimp. Basically what that means is we need to tell MailChimp what each individual field means, and where MailChimp should save that data. Let's go to…

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