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 on an external site
Here's how to embed an email form on an external website:
In the sidebar menu, select Settings. From there, navigate to the Email option on the menu that appears.
Click on Edit next to "Embedded email form".
Configure a few settings for your embedded email form, such as:
Tag subscribers - set up tags for 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.
Once you’re ready, find the embed code for your email form. Copy the code and paste it into your external site as an HTML element.
If the term “HTML” sounds intimidating, don’t worry — there’s no coding involved. You just need to copy and paste the code.
For your CMS, look for where you can add HTML to a page or section. Most platforms make this easy to find. Below are a few helpful articles for popular systems.
WordPress (using the Gutenberg editor)
Squarespace
Wix
Weebly
FAQs & 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.
Can I modify how my embedded email form looks?
Can I modify how my embedded email form looks?
The code Podia provides is fully functional and uses a simple design, which may not match the look of your site.
If you’d like to customize the embedded email form, you’ll need to use custom CSS.
Please note that we’re not able to provide 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 look 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 💜