Mailchimp is an email newsletter service which you can use to gather subscribers and send out email notifications for new posts. It is possible to gather up to 2,500 subscribers as part of their free account.

How to create a popup form

Many people like to display a signup form as a popup. Whilst this can be effective at alerting people to your newsletter, be careful not to annoy your readers by showing the popup too often or distracting from your content. If you would like to create a signup form which appears on the screen as a popup, Mailchimp have a guide for this feature on this page.

When adding the popup, Mailchimp will ask you to copy and paste some HTML into your site. You can copy this into the 3rd box at pipdig > Theme Hooks.
 

How to automatically send new posts to subscribers

You can setup Mailchimp to email your subscribers whenever you publish a new post. Please see this guide for more information on connecting your RSS feed to Mailchimp. Your WordPress RSS feed is located at http://yourdomain.com/feed.
 

How to add a signup form to the sidebar

We recommend using this plugin to add signup forms to any widget area of your site.

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