How to Create an Active Campaign Popup Subscribe Form in WordPress

Want to create an Active Campaign popup subscribe form on your WordPress website?

Active Campaign is one of the best email marketing tools out there, and you can use it to launch email campaigns and carry out functions like sending automated emails and storing subscribers, among other things.

In this article, we will show you how to collect subscribers from your WordPress website and then use Active Campaign to store them.

There are many ways to collect subscribers but using a popup form is one of the most effective methods you can implement.

Popups are an excellent tool for drawing attention. Combining a popup form with a proper call-to-action will encourage visitors to subscribe to your newsletters and other mailing lists.

So in the tutorial below, we will show you how to create a popup that will help you collect subscribers. We will also show you how to connect the popup to your Active Campaign so that you can store your subscribers in that account.

How to Create an Active Campaign Popup Subscription Form in WordPress

To create a popup subscription form, you will need to take the four following steps:

Step 1: Install and activate the MailOptin plugin

Step 2: Create a popup subscription form using MailOptin

Step 3: Integrate the MailOptin plugin with the Active Campaign account

Step 4: Connect the popup subscription form with Active Campaign

Step1: Install & Activate MailOptin

MailOptin is one of the best lead generation or email automation solutions out there. It will help you create a popup form and also ensure that the subscribers you collect will be stored in your Active Campaign account.

Purchase a MailOptin plan and download the plugin from the welcome email or your MailOptin account. Then upload and install the plugin into your WordPress website.

Next, you will need to activate the MailOptin license. Here’s how:

Open your WordPress dashboard and go to MailOptin > Settings > License. You need to copy the license key from your welcome email or your MailOptin account. Paste the license key in the white box beside the License Key field.

Hit the Save Changes button, and the license will be activated.

Step 2: Create a Popup Subscription Form Using MailOptin

To create a popup subscription form, open your WordPress dashboard and go to MailOptin > Optin Campaigns > Add New.

A page will appear asking you for a title and offering different readymade form templates.

Enter a title, and then from the Select Optin Type option, choose LightBox.

The form templates under LightBox are all popups. If you change your mind about popups in the future, try using other opt-in forms like sidebar, slide-ins, notification bars, and in-posts forms. For now, choose a template from under LightBox and proceed by hitting the Select Theme button on your preferred template.

As soon as you do, you will be taken to the page from where you can edit the form to your liking.

On the right side of the page, you have the form; on the left, you have the tools you will need to modify the form.

On our demo site, we wanted the visitors to have the option to sign up for our newsletter or choose to reject the signup offer and remove the popup from the page. So we created a yes or no popup opt-in form.

We have already written an article on how to create a yes or no opt-in form on your WordPress website. Kindly open the link and scroll down to the last section before the conclusion. That should give you an idea of what type of form you want on your website and how to modify the template and create a form. If you require more help, seek assistance from these help documents.

When your form is ready, save all your changes by choosing the Save Changes button at the top of the screen. And also, activate the form by toggling on the Activate button beside the Save Changes button.

Step 3: Integrate MailOptin Plugin With Active Campaign Account

So far, you have activated MailOptin on your WordPress website and created a popup subscription form. Now, you need to ensure that visitors signing up for your popup subscription form are being stored in your Active Campaign account.

The first thing you’d need to do is create an Active Campaign account. Open this page, click on the ‘try it free’ button and sign up.

After signing up, you should go back to your WordPress dashboard to connect your Active Campaign account to MailOptin.

Go to the Integrations settings page by either clicking the sidebar menu link or the top menu tabs.

At the ActiveCampaign Connection section, click the ActiveCampaign account link to log in to your account.

From your ActiveCampaign dashboard, select your avatar and name in the top right-hand corner. A dropdown menu will appear where you can select the My Settings link.

Once you are on the “My Settings” page, select the Developer tab.

You will then have your API Access credentials shown to you.

Copy and paste both your API URL and API Key to ActiveCampaign connection settings and finally, save the changes.

Step 4: Connect Popup Subscription Form With Active Campaign

You will need to connect your popup subscription form with Active Campaign to ensure that whenever someone signs up for your newsletter, the data (name, email address, or both) is stored in your Active Campaign account. Here’s what you need to do:

Open the popup form you created in step 2 by going to MailOptin > Optin Campaigns. Next, click on the form, and it will open on the next page.

From the tools located on the left side of the screen, go to Integrations and click on New Integrations. A drop-down menu will appear with the option Active Campaign. Select that. Be sure to save your changes before you exit the page.

That’s it, folk. You now have an Active Campaign popup subscribe form on your WordPress website.

Conclusion

Adding a popup form to your WordPress website is a great way to collect subscribers. There are many popup form plugins to choose from, but you need to select one that can connect with Active Campaign to store the subscribers to your Active Campaign account.

MailOptin is just the plugin you need. It will help you create a popup form and connect the form with your Active Campaign account. MailOptin is a powerful lead generation and email automation plugin. It is easy to use, and you can get a form popup up and running in no time.

Try MailOptin today!