In this article, you’ll learn why you are missing an [email-tag] in the email dropdown and why [email-tag] is required my Mailchimp.com
In order to send visitors information to Mailchimp.com, your form needs at least 1 important field. This field is the [email-tag], if this info is missing from your submission, nothing will be added to your mailing list inside Mailchimp.com.
To add a basic email field to your form you can copy and paste this snippet to your form: [email* your-email].
You can see this snippet in context here, this is the ‘Form Tab’ inside Contact Form 7:
Once you have added this tag to your form, you will see it available from ‘Subscriber Email: *|EMAIL|* Required‘ dropdown:
This is all you need to start collecting contact information to Mailchimp using Contact Form 7.
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