Email is an incredible way to grow your audience and nurture people to your courses, community, and digital download products.
It is super easy to add an embedded email form to any external sites you might have.
Embedding an email form to an external site
In the sidebar menu, select Settings. From there, navigate to the Email tab on the menu that appears.
Click on Edit next to "Embedded email form".
On the next page you'll be able to set up a few items for your embedded email form:
Tag subscribers - set up tags to subscribers who submit their emails via the embedded form
Success behavior - set up the success behavior of email form submissions, to either show up a message or redirect users to another page/URL.
You'll also see the Embed code you'll need to copy and paste on your external site.
Note: If you'd like to customize the embedded email capture form you'll need to use custom CSS.
We do not currently offer support for custom code.
Copy the Embed code and paste it on your external site.
If the term "HTML" makes you go into a cold sweat, have no fear! This isn't coding but a matter of knowing where to copy and paste. You already have the "copy" part done, so let's paste it to your website.
What you'll need to do for any CMS is find how and where to add the HTML code. Most make this pretty clear, but here are a few helpful articles from popular systems.
WordPress (using the Gutenberg editor)
Squarespace
Wix
Weebly
FAQ & Troubleshooting
Can I create multiple versions of this embedded email form with different tags and success behaviors?
Can I create multiple versions of this embedded email form with different tags and success behaviors?
No.
There's currently only ONE version of the embeddable form, which means that the same tags/success behaviors will be applied to all embedded email forms you have.
Can I add this embedded form to multiple pages of my site?
Can I add this embedded form to multiple pages of my site?
Yes, you can add the same form to multiple pages of your site.
What happens if I change the success behavior in the embedded email form?
What happens if I change the success behavior in the embedded email form?
Changing the success behavior will impact ALL of your embedded email forms, including existing ones.
What happens if I change the tags in the embedded email form?
What happens if I change the tags in the embedded email form?
Changing the tags in the embedded email form will have an impact on new subscribers only.
Current subscribers won't be affected.
How can I modify how my embedded email form looks?
How can I modify how my embedded email form looks?
The code Podia offers is a functional code with simple design that might not match how your current site looks like.
If you'd like to change how it looks, you can use custom CSS.
Please note that we don’t offer support for custom code customization.
Here's an example code to make your email form look different than its default look. It's a great first step if you want to customize things further.<form action="EMBED-FORM-LINK" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post"> <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name" /> <input type="email" name="email" required="required" placeholder="Email" /> <input type="submit" value="SIGN ME UP!" /> </form>
You'll need to replace the Embed Form Link value with the embed link you can pull from your default embed code. It should like something like this: https://university.podia.com/email_lists/93252/subscriptions
You can also replace the HEX code value to change the form colors and the Value text to change the button sign up text.
Please note we will not be able to support non-functioning embedded email forms with customized CSS code.
Any questions about Podia's email features? Check out our comprehensive help docs, or click the purple icon to send us a message 💜