MailChimp Widget Conflicting with WP Forum Server Plugin

[David Winter]

We use the great MailChimp widget on our site https://www.svbg.co.uk/blog to collect details for our email newsletters but having just added a Forum to our Blog using the Forumpress.org plugin WP Forum Server v1.7 we now have a minor conflict with the appearance of the MC sign up box.

We really need both plugins/widgets so wondered if anyone knows what is causing the display conflict (the yellow box on the LHS Sidebar between the text ‘Sign up for the SVBG newsletter’ and the first Text box)?

I suspect the issue may be theme related as the conflict doesn’t occur with a different theme on a similar site, we are using Arras Theme but there seems to be little help from there on plugin conflicts.

Any thoughts folks

[FrankM3]

I discovered that my issue was with the latest MailChimp upgrade as the featured slideshow stopped working on my Arras Theme. I was having issues with MailChimp version 1.2.6 so I downgraded to an older version of MailChimp 1.1.12 and it works perfect. Also, I am more familiar with the older version when it comes to changing css to resize and recolor the backgrounds so I will upgrade MailChimp when a newer version is released.

That is my 2 cents worth of knowledge.