Hi @abdorefky,
Firstly: I’m sorry for the delay in reply here. Automattic (the company behind Ryu) held its annual company retreat last week. We’re back from the retreat now and currently working our way through questions that came up while we were gone.
The issue you noted is caused by a combination of two things:
1. The page is automatically refreshed after the MailChimp form’s submit button is pressed.
2. The sliding menu is closed by default when a page is first loaded.
Some complex changes to the plugin’s code would be required in order to stop the page being refreshed after the submit button is pressed, which goes beyond the scope of support this forum is intended for.
You could, however, use some custom CSS to change the default behaviour of the sliding menu so that the widgets always display. This would then stop the open/close behaviour after someone submits details via the MailChimp form.
To add custom CSS: Firstly set up a child theme or activate a custom CSS plugin. (If you have Jetpack installed then you can activate its custom CSS module.)
Enter the following snippet in either the editor for your CSS plugin or the style.css file of your child theme to get your widgets to display persistently:
#widgets-wrapper {
display: block;
}
You could then use the following snippet to hide the icon link to your widgets:
.widgets-trigger {
display: none;
}
An alternative to the above approach is to use the shortcode provided by the plugin – [mc4wp_form] – to embed your form directly to a post or a page. You could also consider a different theme that supports widgets in different areas, such as the footer or sidebar.
Let me know how you get on with the above options or if there’s anything further I can do to help out.
Thanks!
