Feedburner Email Subscription Fix

Saturday, May 02, 2009 Posted by Michael

The Revolution Lifestyle theme for Blogger by Brian Gardner on Magznetwork is fantastic. However, the suggested code for the Feedburner Newsletter Widget isn't valid since Google acquired Feedburner.

Using trial & error, and the invaluable information in the Feedburner Email Subscription Request Problem blog post by Danny Ng, I came up with a fix specifically for the Revolution Lifestyle theme.

Go to Layout > Page Element, add a HTML/Javascript widget to SIDEBARTOP section. Add this code,

<div class="newsletter">
<h2>eNews &amp; Updates</h2>
<p>Sign up to receive breaking news <br/> as well as receive other site updates!</p>
<form id="subscribe" action="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify" target="popupwindow" method="post" onsubmit="window.open('http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=YOURFEEDBURNERID', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true">
<input id="subbox" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Enter your email address...') {this.value = '';}" value="Enter your email address..." name="email" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Enter your email address...';}" type="text"/>
<input value="YOURFEEDBURNERID" name="uri" type="hidden"/>
<input value="eNews Subscribe" name="title" type="hidden"/>
<input id="subbutton" value="GO" type="submit"/>
</form>
</div>

Change YOURFEEDBURNERID with your own Feedburner ID, located at the end of your feed address: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/YOURFEEDBURNERID

For example, my feed address is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MichaelNye, so my Feedburner ID is MichaelNye

If you need further help, please see the information in the Feedburner Email Subscription Request Problem blog post by Danny Ng.

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