kevjazz

My wife told me that she got this to work by inserting mc4wp in front of each field like FName, LName, etc. The fields have to be the same on your Contact From 7 as they are on your Mail Chimp form.
HTH
Kevin

thanks to Buzztone for letting me know. I guess fcertain posts take a while to show up if there’s enough code in them.

At the moderator’s suggestion, I split this into several different posts, all of which are now resolved.

Thanks to someone at Mail Chimp, my wife received the information she needed. It involved making sure that certain snippets of code were inserted correctly.

Thanks to everyone’s help, and my wife’s persistence, we now have the country dropdown working and the data porting to Mail Chimp.

thanks again,
kevjazz

Dear Takayuki,

My wife figured it out. thanks so much for being so helpful. We will definitely download your plug. this website is currently being built behind the scenes. When it goes live, I’ll be sure to let you know.

Best,
kevjazz

Dear Takayuki,

The tags you didn’t recognize are related to a e-mail marketing service called Mail Chimp. They are supposed to grab the data from the CF7 form and import it into our mailing list if the user elects to become a subscriber. Unfortunately, I’m not able to get this functionality working either. But that is a task for a separate thread. Again, if you’re willing to show me a complete code example based on the code I’ve provided, it would be extremely helpful.

Best,
Kevjazz

Dear Takayuki,
I’m blind and hope I spelled your name correctly. the fact is, I truly don’t understand HTML or WordPress beyond the most basic level. Most of what I am capable of comes from simply copying and pasting code in the hope that it will perform as expected. Would you be willing to take the code example above and paste in the corrections so that it performs as expected? Your help would be tremendously appreciated. Where would I find your plugin? What does it do? Respectfully, could you explain exactly what your plugin’s purpose is with respect to making a country dropdown list a required field?

thank you for responding and I hope you can help.

Best,
Kevjazz

Here’s my code for your examination.

I’ve shortened the list of countries for brevity’s sake.

<p>First Name (required) [text* FNAME id:firstname]</p>  Last Name (required) [text* LNAME id:lastname]</p>
<p>Email (required) [email* EMAIL id:email] </p>
<p>
    <label>Country: (required)</label>
    <select name="country" class="required"> [dropdown* COUNTRY id:country]
        <option value="Select One">Select One</option>
        <option value="United States of America">United States of America</option>
        <option value="Aaland Islands">Aaland Islands</option>
        <option value="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</option>
        <option value="Albania">Albania</option>
        <option value="Algeria">Algeria</option>
        <option value="American Samoa">American Samoa</option>
        <option value="Yemen">Yemen</option>
        <option value="Zambia">Zambia</option>
        <option value="Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</option>
    </select>
</p>
[mc4wp_checkbox "Add me to Kevin's mailing list"]

<p>Subject [text your-subject] </p>

<p>Your Message [textarea your-message] </p>

[recaptcha]

<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="6Le1bRETAAAAAAQcZyu9wZZbQkqwMbHdLlWkXzEM"></div>

<p>[submit "Send"]</p>

My other three posts concern how to integrate CF7 and Mail Chimp and how to make a country dropdown list a required field in a CF7 form. In both examples, I included shortened versions of my CF7 form. Does the presence of code cause a lag in posting time?

Sorry for all the posts. the other problem I’m having concerns my inability to integrate CF7 and Mail Chimp. Since we have a box that says that our user wants to receive our newsletter, the contact info should be ported into Mail Chimp when the user hits SEND. Unfortunately, this data is not automatically added to our MC mailing list. Again, what are we doing wrong? Shouldn’t it be possible to have the user’s name, e-mail and country captured by MC?

Looking forward to any advice/help.

Best,
Kevin

Because I’ve had problems copying the code from my CF7 general form, I’ve truncated the country list in the hope that a shorter form will actually post. Hopefully, one of you can tell me what I’m doing wrong with respect to making sure that choosing a country is a required field.

thanks,
Kevin
<p>First Name (required)
[text* FNAME id:firstname]</p> Last Name (required)
[text* LNAME id:lastname]</p>
<p>Email (required)
[email* EMAIL id:email] </p>
<p>
<label>Country: (required)</label>
<select name=”country” class=”required”> [dropdown* COUNTRY id:country]
<option value=”Select One”>Select One</option>
<option value=”United States of America”>United States of America</option>
<option value=”Aaland Islands”>Aaland Islands</option>
<option value=”Afghanistan”>Afghanistan</option>
<option value=”Albania”>Albania</option>
<option value=”Algeria”>Algeria</option>
<option value=”American Samoa”>American Samoa</option>
<option value=”Yemen”>Yemen</option>
<option value=”Zambia”>Zambia</option>
<option value=”Zimbabwe”>Zimbabwe</option>
</select>
</p>
[mc4wp_checkbox “Add me to Kevin’s mailing list”]

<p>Subject
[text your-subject] </p>

<p>Your Message
[textarea your-message] </p>

[recaptcha]

<div class=”g-recaptcha” data-sitekey=”6Le1bRETAAAAAAQcZyu9wZZbQkqwMbHdLlWkXzEM”></div>

<p>[submit “Send”]</p>

Here is all of the code for the form.
No matter how I have changed the html for the drop down list, country will for some reason, no longer show as an error on the form if the user omits it. Have no idea why.

<p>First Name (required)
[text* FNAME id:firstname]</p> Last Name (required)
[text* LNAME id:lastname]</p>
<p>Email (required)
[email* EMAIL id:email] </p>
<p>
<label>Country: (required)</label>
<select name=”country” class=”required”> [dropdown* COUNTRY id:country]
<option value=”Select One”>Select One</option>
<option value=”United States of America”>United States of America</option>
<option value=”Aaland Islands”>Aaland Islands</option>
<option value=”Afghanistan”>Afghanistan</option>
<option value=”Albania”>Albania</option>
<option value=”Algeria”>Algeria</option>
<option value=”American Samoa”>American Samoa</option>
<option value=”Andorra”>Andorra</option>
<option value=”Angola”>Angola</option>
<option value=”Anguilla”>Anguilla</option>
<option value=”Antarctica”>Antarctica</option>
<option value=”Antigua And Barbuda”>Antigua And Barbuda</option>
<option value=”Argentina”>Argentina</option>
<option value=”Armenia”>Armenia</option>
<option value=”Aruba”>Aruba</option>
<option value=”Australia”>Australia</option>
<option value=”Austria”>Austria</option>
<option value=”Azerbaijan”>Azerbaijan</option>
<option value=”Bahamas”>Bahamas</option>
<option value=”Bahrain”>Bahrain</option>
<option value=”Bangladesh”>Bangladesh</option>
<option value=”Barbados”>Barbados</option>
<option value=”Belarus”>Belarus</option>
<option value=”Belgium”>Belgium</option>
<option value=”Belize”>Belize</option>
<option value=”Benin”>Benin</option>
<option value=”Bermuda”>Bermuda</option>
<option value=”Bhutan”>Bhutan</option>
<option value=”Bolivia”>Bolivia</option>
<option value=”Bosnia and Herzegovina”>Bosnia and Herzegovina</option>
<option value=”Botswana”>Botswana</option>
<option value=”Bouvet Island”>Bouvet Island</option>
<option value=”Brazil”>Brazil</option>
<option value=”British Indian Ocean Territory”>British Indian Ocean Territory</option>
<option value=”Brunei Darussalam”>Brunei Darussalam</option>
<option value=”Bulgaria”>Bulgaria</option>
<option value=”Burkina Faso”>Burkina Faso</option>
<option value=”Burundi”>Burundi</option>
<option value=”Cambodia”>Cambodia</option>
<option value=”Cameroon”>Cameroon</option>
<option value=”Canada”>Canada</option>
<option value=”Cape Verde”>Cape Verde</option>
<option value=”Cayman Islands”>Cayman Islands</option>
<option value=”Central African Republic”>Central African Republic</option>
<option value=”Chad”>Chad</option>
<option value=”Chile”>Chile</option>
<option value=”China”>China</option>
<option value=”Christmas Island”>Christmas Island</option>
<option value=”Cocos (Keeling) Islands”>Cocos (Keeling) Islands</option>
<option value=”Colombia”>Colombia</option>
<option value=”Comoros”>Comoros</option>
<option value=”Congo”>Congo</option>
<option value=”Cook Islands”>Cook Islands</option>
<option value=”Costa Rica”>Costa Rica</option>
<option value=”Cote D’Ivoire”>Cote D’Ivoire</option>
<option value=”Croatia”>Croatia</option>
<option value=”Cuba”>Cuba</option>
<option value=”Curacao”>Curacao</option>
<option value=”Cyprus”>Cyprus</option>
<option value=”Czech Republic”>Czech Republic</option>
<option value=”Democratic Republic of the Congo”>Democratic Republic of the Congo</option>
<option value=”Denmark”>Denmark</option>
<option value=”Djibouti”>Djibouti</option>
<option value=”Dominica”>Dominica</option>
<option value=”Dominican Republic”>Dominican Republic</option>
<option value=”Ecuador”>Ecuador</option>
<option value=”Egypt”>Egypt</option>
<option value=”El Salvador”>El Salvador</option>
<option value=”Equatorial Guinea”>Equatorial Guinea</option>
<option value=”Eritrea”>Eritrea</option>
<option value=”Estonia”>Estonia</option>
<option value=”Ethiopia”>Ethiopia</option>
<option value=”Falkland Islands”>Falkland Islands</option>
<option value=”Faroe Islands”>Faroe Islands</option>
<option value=”Fiji”>Fiji</option>
<option value=”Finland”>Finland</option>
<option value=”France”>France</option>
<option value=”French Guiana”>French Guiana</option>
<option value=”French Polynesia”>French Polynesia</option>
<option value=”French Southern Territories”>French Southern Territories</option>
<option value=”Gabon”>Gabon</option>
<option value=”Gambia”>Gambia</option>
<option value=”Georgia”>Georgia</option>
<option value=”Germany”>Germany</option>
<option value=”Ghana”>Ghana</option>
<option value=”Gibraltar”>Gibraltar</option>
<option value=”Greece”>Greece</option>
<option value=”Greenland”>Greenland</option>
<option value=”Grenada”>Grenada</option>
<option value=”Guadeloupe”>Guadeloupe</option>
<option value=”Guam”>Guam</option>
<option value=”Guatemala”>Guatemala</option>
<option value=”Guernsey”>Guernsey</option>
<option value=”Guinea”>Guinea</option>
<option value=”Guinea-Bissau”>Guinea-Bissau</option>
<option value=”Guyana”>Guyana</option>
<option value=”Haiti”>Haiti</option>
<option value=”Heard and Mc Donald Islands”>Heard and Mc Donald Islands</option>
<option value=”Honduras”>Honduras</option>
<option value=”Hong Kong”>Hong Kong</option>
<option value=”Hungary”>Hungary</option>
<option value=”Iceland”>Iceland</option>
<option value=”India”>India</option>
<option value=”Indonesia”>Indonesia</option>
<option value=”Iran”>Iran</option>
<option value=”Iraq”>Iraq</option>
<option value=”Ireland”>Ireland</option>
<option value=”Isle of Man”>Isle of Man</option>
<option value=”Israel”>Israel</option>
<option value=”Italy”>Italy</option>
<option value=”Jamaica”>Jamaica</option>
<option value=”Japan”>Japan</option>
<option value=”Jersey (Channel Islands)”>Jersey (Channel Islands)</option>
<option value=”Jordan”>Jordan</option>
<option value=”Kazakhstan”>Kazakhstan</option>
<option value=”Kenya”>Kenya</option>
<option value=”Kiribati”>Kiribati</option>
<option value=”Kuwait”>Kuwait</option>
<option value=”Kyrgyzstan”>Kyrgyzstan</option>
<option value=”Lao People’s Democratic Republic”>Lao People’s Democratic Republic</option>
<option value=”Latvia”>Latvia</option>
<option value=”Lebanon”>Lebanon</option>
<option value=”Lesotho”>Lesotho</option>
<option value=”Liberia”>Liberia</option>
<option value=”Libya”>Libya</option>
<option value=”Liechtenstein”>Liechtenstein</option>
<option value=”Lithuania”>Lithuania</option>
<option value=”Luxembourg”>Luxembourg</option>
<option value=”Macau”>Macau</option>
<option value=”Macedonia”>Macedonia</option>
<option value=”Madagascar”>Madagascar</option>
<option value=”Malawi”>Malawi</option>
<option value=”Malaysia”>Malaysia</option>
<option value=”Maldives”>Maldives</option>
<option value=”Mali”>Mali</option>
<option value=”Malta”>Malta</option>
<option value=”Marshall Islands”>Marshall Islands</option>
<option value=”Martinique”>Martinique</option>
<option value=”Mauritania”>Mauritania</option>
<option value=”Mauritius”>Mauritius</option>
<option value=”Mayotte”>Mayotte</option>
<option value=”Mexico”>Mexico</option>
<option value=”Micronesia, Federated States of”>Micronesia, Federated States of</option>
<option value=”Moldova, Republic of”>Moldova, Republic of</option>
<option value=”Monaco”>Monaco</option>
<option value=”Mongolia”>Mongolia</option>
<option value=”Montenegro”>Montenegro</option>
<option value=”Montserrat”>Montserrat</option>
<option value=”Morocco”>Morocco</option>
<option value=”Mozambique”>Mozambique</option>
<option value=”Myanmar”>Myanmar</option>
<option value=”Namibia”>Namibia</option>
<option value=”Nauru”>Nauru</option>
<option value=”Nepal”>Nepal</option>
<option value=”Netherlands”>Netherlands</option>
<option value=”Netherlands Antilles”>Netherlands Antilles</option>
<option value=”New Caledonia”>New Caledonia</option>
<option value=”New Zealand”>New Zealand</option>
<option value=”Nicaragua”>Nicaragua</option>
<option value=”Niger”>Niger</option>
<option value=”Nigeria”>Nigeria</option>
<option value=”Niue”>Niue</option>
<option value=”Norfolk Island”>Norfolk Island</option>
<option value=”North Korea”>North Korea</option>
<option value=”Northern Mariana Islands”>Northern Mariana Islands</option>
<option value=”Norway”>Norway</option>
<option value=”Oman”>Oman</option>
<option value=”Pakistan”>Pakistan</option>
<option value=”Palau”>Palau</option>
<option value=”Palestine”>Palestine</option>
<option value=”Panama”>Panama</option>
<option value=”Papua New Guinea”>Papua New Guinea</option>
<option value=”Paraguay”>Paraguay</option>
<option value=”Peru”>Peru</option>
<option value=”Philippines”>Philippines</option>
<option value=”Pitcairn”>Pitcairn</option>
<option value=”Poland”>Poland</option>
<option value=”Portugal”>Portugal</option>
<option value=”Puerto Rico”>Puerto Rico</option>
<option value=”Qatar”>Qatar</option>
<option value=”Republic of Kosovo”>Republic of Kosovo</option>
<option value=”Reunion”>Reunion</option>
<option value=”Romania”>Romania</option>
<option value=”Russia”>Russia</option>
<option value=”Rwanda”>Rwanda</option>
<option value=”Saint Kitts and Nevis”>Saint Kitts and Nevis</option>
<option value=”Saint Lucia”>Saint Lucia</option>
<option value=”Saint Vincent and the Grenadines”>Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</option>
<option value=”Samoa (Independent)”>Samoa (Independent)</option>
<option value=”San Marino”>San Marino</option>
<option value=”Sao Tome and Principe”>Sao Tome and Principe</option>
<option value=”Saudi Arabia”>Saudi Arabia</option>
<option value=”Senegal”>Senegal</option>
<option value=”Serbia”>Serbia</option>
<option value=”Seychelles”>Seychelles</option>
<option value=”Sierra Leone”>Sierra Leone</option>
<option value=”Singapore”>Singapore</option>
<option value=”Sint Maarten”>Sint Maarten</option>
<option value=”Slovakia”>Slovakia</option>
<option value=”Slovenia”>Slovenia</option>
<option value=”Solomon Islands”>Solomon Islands</option>
<option value=”Somalia”>Somalia</option>
<option value=”South Africa”>South Africa</option>
<option value=”South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands”>South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands</option>
<option value=”South Korea”>South Korea</option>
<option value=”South Sudan”>South Sudan</option>
<option value=”Spain”>Spain</option>
<option value=”Sri Lanka”>Sri Lanka</option>
<option value=”St. Helena”>St. Helena</option>
<option value=”St. Pierre and Miquelon”>St. Pierre and Miquelon</option>
<option value=”Sudan”>Sudan</option>
<option value=”Suriname”>Suriname</option>
<option value=”Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands”>Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands</option>
<option value=”Swaziland”>Swaziland</option>
<option value=”Sweden”>Sweden</option>
<option value=”Switzerland”>Switzerland</option>
<option value=”Syria”>Syria</option>
<option value=”Taiwan”>Taiwan</option>
<option value=”Tajikistan”>Tajikistan</option>
<option value=”Tanzania”>Tanzania</option>
<option value=”Thailand”>Thailand</option>
<option value=”Timor-Leste”>Timor-Leste</option>
<option value=”Togo”>Togo</option>
<option value=”Tokelau”>Tokelau</option>
<option value=”Tonga”>Tonga</option>
<option value=”Trinidad and Tobago”>Trinidad and Tobago</option>
<option value=”Tunisia”>Tunisia</option>
<option value=”Turkey”>Turkey</option>
<option value=”Turkmenistan”>Turkmenistan</option>
<option value=”Turks & Caicos Islands”>Turks & Caicos Islands</option>
<option value=”Turks and Caicos Islands”>Turks and Caicos Islands</option>
<option value=”Tuvalu”>Tuvalu</option>
<option value=”Uganda”>Uganda</option>
<option value=”Ukraine”>Ukraine</option>
<option value=”United Arab Emirates”>United Arab Emirates</option>
<option value=”United Kingdom”>United Kingdom</option>
<option value=”Uruguay”>Uruguay</option>
<option value=”USA Minor Outlying Islands”>USA Minor Outlying Islands</option>
<option value=”Uzbekistan”>Uzbekistan</option>
<option value=”Vanuatu”>Vanuatu</option>
<option value=”Vatican City State (Holy See)”>Vatican City State (Holy See)</option>
<option value=”Venezuela”>Venezuela</option>
<option value=”Vietnam”>Vietnam</option>
<option value=”Virgin Islands (British)”>Virgin Islands (British)</option>
<option value=”Virgin Islands (U.S.)”>Virgin Islands (U.S.)</option>
<option value=”Wallis and Futuna Islands”>Wallis and Futuna Islands</option>
<option value=”Western Sahara”>Western Sahara</option>
<option value=”Yemen”>Yemen</option>
<option value=”Zambia”>Zambia</option>
<option value=”Zimbabwe”>Zimbabwe</option>
</select>
</p>
[mc4wp_checkbox “Add me to Kevin’s mailing list”]

<p>Subject
[text your-subject] </p>

<p>Your Message
[textarea your-message] </p>

[recaptcha]

<div class=”g-recaptcha” data-sitekey=”6Le1bRETAAAAAAQcZyu9wZZbQkqwMbHdLlWkXzEM”></div>

<p>[submit “Send”]</p>

Is there a limit to the number of characters this reply box can hold? I just tried to send another version of my form. But it did not appear. My problem is that I can’t make Country a required field despite every possible syntax. How does one make a user select a country from a dropdown list. We know that the form error message works because we tried submitting a form without last name and the form was not sent because of errors. So, how do me make this the default behavior when a user fails to identify his country of origin?

Since I can’t seem to send my general form, for those who wish to see it, please write me privately at
[email protected].

Any help greatly appreciated.
Best,
Kevin

Here is an example of an e-mail that worked before we tried to integrate CF7 with Mail Chimp. This is how I know that WordPress mail is working correctly.

From: WordPress <[Moderator Redacted]>
Subject: does this form work?
Date: November 20, 2015 8:53:52 PM CST
To: [Moderator Redacted]
Reply-To: [Moderator Redacted]

From: prudence <[Moderator Redacted]>
Subject: does this form work?

Licensing Music
Message Body:
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