Newsletter Sign-Up

It adds a small checkbox to the comment form and registration screen, which the users can check and subscribe to the author's newsletter stream.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Features:

• General Features:
• Add a "sign-up to our newsletter" checkbox to your comment form
• Add a "sign-up to our newsletter" checkbox to your WP register form
• Add a "sign-up to our newsletter" checkbox to your BuddyPress register form
• Specify additional data to be sent to your newsletter service along with the sign-up request
• Subscribe the commenter with their name
• Hide the checkbox for users who used it to sign-up to your newsletter before
• Supported Services:
• FeedBlitz
• MailChimp
• iContact
• Aweber
• PHPList
• YMLP
• And an option to add a customized service

What is new in this release:

• Added:
• Compatibility with bbPress, you can now add a sign-up checkbox to the post new topic and post new reply forms.
• Fixed:
• Not being able to uncheck "add to comment form" in checkbox settings
• Compatibility with other plugins who use a 'functions.php' file (like GDE).

What is new in version 2.0:

• Fixed:
• Last update broke template functions
• Spam comments not being filtered
• Added:
• HTML 5 form fields (option)
• Validation texts (option)
• Navigation tabs in back-end

What is new in version 1.9:

• Improved:
• Code refactoring, less memory usage
• Admin panel clean-up
• Fixed:
• YMLP API
• Added:
• Translation filters to form shortcode output
• Translation filters to checkbox label
• SPAM Honeypot to sign-up form to prevent bot subscribers
• Removed:
• Paragraph tags around hidden fields

What is new in version 1.8:

• Fixed W3C error because of empty "action" attribute on form tag.

What is new in version 1.7.9:

• Improved CSS Reset for comment checkbox.

What is new in version 1.7.8:

• Improved enqueue call to load stylesheet on frontend.
• Fixed notice after submitting widget form (undefined variable $name).
• Fixed %%IP%% value in widget form.

What is new in version 1.7.5:

• Fixed:
• Hidden inputs are now wrapped by a block element too, so the form output validates as XHTML 1.0 STRICT.

What is new in version 1.7.3:

• Fixed:
• Actual fix for previous two plugin updates.

What is new in version 1.6:

• Improvement:
• Huge backend changes. Everything is split up for increased maintainability.
• Better code documenting.
• Consistent function names (with backwards compatibility for old function names).
• Only load frontend CSS file if actually needed / asked to.
• Added:
• Added CSS class to text after signing up.
• Added option to automatically add paragraph's to text after signing up.
• Added option to set default value for e-mail and name field.
• Option to redirect to a given url after signing-up.
• More elegant error handling.
• Bug Fix:
• "Hide checkbox for subscribers" did not work after version 1.5.1.

What is new in version 1.4.3:

• Improvement:
• Added CSS classes to the form's label's and input fields.
• Added unique ID's to each form and input field
• Added:
• Compatibility with WYSIWYG Widgets Plugin.

What is new in version 1.4.2:

• Improvement: Made the label at comment form and registration forms clickable so it checks the checkbox.
• Improvement: Made 'email' a required field when submitting the sign-up form.
• Improvement: Made 'name' an optionally required field when submitting the sign-up form.

What is new in version 1.3.3:

• Improvement: Users can now edit the widget labels for the email and name input fields.
• Improvement: You can now use some common HTML-codes in the widget text's
• Improvement: Linebreaks (\n) are now converted to HTML linebreaks in frontend.
• Fixed: Widget typo in the label for the email input field.

What is new in version 1.1.2:

• Fixed PHPList fatal error.
• Added additional data support when using YMLP API.

What is new in version 1.0.5:

• Fixed some undefined indexes notices in the frontend.

Requirements:

• WordPress 2.7 or higher