adding name field to wordpress plugin
I am a graphic designer working with a developer who needs a few questions answered. Basically here's the gist.
Client loves constant contact. Newsletter button on website however directed new customers to constant contact website and then once done signing up was difficult for new customers to get back to website. So I found a plugin for wordpress that works perfectly and customers never leave the website. The only problem? there's no frickin name field. So when a new customer signs up they don't give their name and then email newsletters that go out are never personally addressed. Client demands this. So i have a developer who can manipulate the code for the plugin but he needs to know what the name of the DB field is for name so that he can add that to the code.
Do you all know what that is or can you direct me to an already working code that does what I want?
Thanks!
John
Hey John, I can't give you
Hey John,
I can't give you the column name in the database but if you provide me with the code I can see how they are accessing the data and provide a solution for you.
If this wordpress integration is using our REST API then it would reference the full name field as 'Name' and the first, middle, and last name fields would be 'FirstName', 'MiddleName', and 'LastName' respectively.
If you want to give those a shot in your integration or attach you source code to this thread please do.
Dan H
Support Engineer, Constant Contact
Dan, thanks for your
Dan, thanks for your response. I was trying to use a plugin called constant-contact. Here is the meat of that plugin www.elementel.net/constant-contact.zip
If you could download and unzip it you'll find several php files that may or may not help you.
I really appreciate your help with this.
John
Hey John, I cannot download
Hey John,
I cannot download that file because it appears to have some sort of authentication. Could you attach the zip file to this forum post directly or provide another link?
Dan H
Support Engineer, Constant Contact
Here is the original download
Here is the original download place for the plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/constant-contact/
I really need to get something figured out or my clients are leaving constantcontact. I know that's not your business but I am really frustrated that it's so hard to have people subscribe to a list without leaving the site. Adding a name field also wouldn't be a huge deal but for some reason constant contact doesn't offer it?
Sorry for the problems you're
Sorry for the problems you're seeing. The Wordpress plugin was created by a Constant Contact customer to make it easier for people using Wordpress to have a simple signup form on their website. This plugin was not created with any help or in concert with Constant Contact and we do not support the plugin.
I am receiving a 404 when attempting to download the package to look into it. If you can attach the actual .zip file or code files here, we can take a look at it to see if there is some way we can assist you. Please keep in mind though, we can not support a 3rd party integration and going to that developer will probably be the best way to get an update to the integration.
We do offer more advanced sign up scripts that will give you the ability to add a name. If you are comfortable with PHP or C# .NET (PHP is probalby the desired language if you're using a Wordpress website), you can easily integrate our PHP Class to your Wordpress site and use it to add any information you would look to the sign up process. This class was designed by Constant Contact and was designed to allow developers to get a quick start with a form that takes any number of fields offered by Constant Contact. You can find this sample code here. If you are familar with how HTML Forms and PHP work, it is fairly easy to integrate this to any website.
Dave B Support Engineer, Constant Contact