One of the most effective areas to place an opt-in form on your site is at the end of your posts. The reader has already displayed an interest in your site by reading the entire post. This is the perfect time to ask them to take the next step and sign up to your email list.
How Can You Add An Opt-in Form To Your Posts
There are several ways you can add the opt-in form to the end of your posts. The first and most tedious way is to manually add it when you are writing your posts. One benefit of doing it this way is that you can customize the content for each individual post. A big pitfall, however, is if you ever wanted to change what gets displayed you would have to go back and edit every post you ever wrote. Not very efficient.
Another way to add the opt-in form is to modify your WordPress theme to output it whenever a single post is displayed. This is the way I did it initially and saved me considerable time from having to do it manually for every post. However, if you’re not technically inclined this can be a very daunting task trying to figure out how to modify your site’s theme and where to add the code.
Simplifying The Process With The Add To Post Plugin
I decided to simplify this process by developing the Add To Post plugin that could do this without having to edit your posts or modifying your theme’s source files.
You can easily add an opt-in form to all your posts from the plugin’s settings page. In fact, you can add any type of content you want not just an opt-in form. This can be AdSense code or banner ads to help monetize your blog or notifications such as a disclaimer or an affiliate disclosure statement.
The plugin also allows you to add content before your posts as well. You can enable the plugin to add custom content before your posts, after your posts or both at the same time.
Add To Post is an essential plugin for me and hopefully you will find it useful too. Please share this post if you think it can help other fellow bloggers.
Great idea for a blog plugin. Does it support multi-lingual? You see, my site is both French and English, so I struggle to find cool plugins that support both languages at the same time. Let me know if this one does, and I will certainly use it.
Cheers,
Frederic
http://www.fredericgonzalo.com
Hi Frederic. By multi-lingual, do you mean translation for the settings page? I can certainly look into adding support for that if you’re willing to do the translating =). If you mean the content that gets added before or after the post it can be in any language you want.
Can you add support for middle of post as well? I think this a really great plugin
I’m glad you like the plugin!
I’m looking at adding shortcode support into the plugin. It would allow you to add additional content into the middle of posts but you would have to insert a little snippet such as [custom-content] manually into your posts for it to work.
There’s no other elegant way to do this as far as I know.
Great plugin for building subscribers and placing ads in your posts without the need to mess around with css & PHP code
Thanks for the kind words Brad!
Miracles do happen!
I was asking about a plugin like this and was told that it doesn’t exist. And then – here it is (announced at Weblog Tools Collection). Thanks a lot! The shortcode idea sounds great too!
I like the idea. It seems viable, especially for non-techies like me who just want a quick way to get everything done.
great, nice post.. i like this pugin..
thanks for your share
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how to change indonesian language?
please help me
Hey there, sorry I don’t have any language support in this version. It’s really simple and straight forward to use though.
If you have a specific problem I can try to help you.
I cant thank you enough for making this plugin there are so many use for it that I cant think straight right know, “I mean now” this is going to help me out alot thanks again
Thank you! I’m glad you found the plugin useful.
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how do you add the aweber form to your post
can you tell me in detail what hings to change in css file
Nice plugin.
Thanks – I did not know it was a plugin initially. I thought it was manually created design. Thanks I will use it on my blog for sure.
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