By mcsolas on

I am trying to enable the simple news module / block. Its showing up when I look at the home page, and logout.. but there is no form to fill out to subscribe. I am not sure if its being filtered out.

How can I get a form with: [ input email ] [ subscribe button ] to show up in that block?

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mortenson’s picture

mortenson commented

check out the Page specific visibility settings section in the block configuration

check Show on only the listed pages

write the url to pages you want to show the block

ej: /user/create

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markosaurus commented

I'm having the same issue, I assume down to something stupid I've done, but the answer above is not the way to go. I want my form to show in the footer on every page. You can't be suggesting that I need to add to the list of pages to show on every time I add some content?

I've checked permissions, I'm not signed in and I can see the block, but not the form.

Any other ideas anyone?

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markosaurus commented

Mcsolas, did you have any progress with this?

I'm still trying to work it out.

I've just seen this on the module page;

Simplenews Register gives the user an option of subscribing to a newsletter when they register for the site. This module adds the user registration form the the Simplenews block for the newsletter given the following conditions:

The user is not logged in
The anonymous user does not have permission to subscribe to a newsletter (You want to better track subscriber information)
The Simplenews Register module is enabled and the newsletter is set so the registering user must opt out.
The Simplenews block configuration is set to show the signup form
When the registration form appears the user will have the option to enter a username, e-mail address, and password if the user settings allow.
Instead of showing an error message when the username is already taken, the module automatically generates a name for the user, and notifies them of the change.
The user receives two emails after registration:

inform them of successful signup to the site, and possible letting them know their new password/username
confirm subscription to the newsletter

I'm going to try going through these and see if the form then shows.

Will report back after testing

EDIT - I've tried disabling the simpleformRegister module and my form still isn't showing?

I'm not logged in, anonymous users have permission to subscribe and I can see the block its self because I put content in the body in the blocks > config page, which shows fine...

...so why can't I get the stupid sign-up form to show? This should be so simple, but as usual with drupal, something which should take 2 minutes ends up taking 2 days. Things like this are what drive people away from the project in a state of panic, confusion and despair. I feel like tearing my hair out .

mike-michal’s picture

mike-michal commented

The problem is that you choose block with rss feed in block administration section. Look for block which name is name of term that newsletter belong to.

Btw. maybe someone know how to change sended emails. I want to send only short constant information about new content and link to this content, not all as it used to send.

Cheers, Mike.

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secretuser commented

enable anonymous user to subscribe to newsletter in your permission page and you will see the form.

Chitotakun’s picture

Chitotakun commented

thankful. your help me.

sillo’s picture

sillo commented

Hello.

I gave everyone including anonymous permission to subscribe to newsletter, but im still not getting the form :/

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mariskath commented

In my case Firefox didn't show the input box as long as I was logged in. Google did, but Firefox didn't. So anonymous users should be able to subscribe too, even though I mostly do not see the subscribe button.