Thank You Pages in Wordpress?

[AlexNewell]

Up to now I have used wordpress blogs with autoresponder web form code in a widget and "thank you" and "confirmation" pages as standard HTML pages.

I've tried to use pages on my blogs for this previously but not managed it - I kept getting errors.

This may be theme dependent, I don't know.

So how can I use the pages in my own blog for this, so I do not have to add extra HTML pages?

Thanks!

Alex

[Adriana]

Yes Alex,

You can create a thank you page, and then use the Exclude pages form navigation found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/ to "hide" that thank you page from your navigation.

HTH

[jezhunt]

Hi Alex

I use AWeber - I leave it to the default AWeber confirmation page, and then use a page on my WP site for the thank you page.

It all seems to work ok!

Have you tried swapping for a different theme and seeing if it then works?

[AlexNewell]

Adriana - thanks, that certainly solves one problem - and I am a plugin addict so anything that needs an extra plugin sure gets it fast.

Jez - trying a different theme is now on the agenda, thanks for the question!

[AlexNewell]

I've tried using a different theme and I just get a 404 when I click on the subscribe box on http://newbie-on-the-net.com

I am unsure of the URL of the thank you page - in the address bar it says http://newbie-on-the-net.com/thanks-for-subscribing but this does not seem like a page URL...should there be a php or something on the end?

Help!

:-)

[Adriana]

Alex, have you created a page with this name: thanks-for-subscribing (http://newbie-on-the-net.com/thanks-for-subscribing)?

If not, that's your problem. If your thank you page has a different name, then all you need to do is go in your aweber and change the thank you page.

Does that make sense? If not, PM me your login and I'll take a look (if you want me to, of course)

[AlexNewell]

Sorry I was not clear and thanks for the offer - I'd happily accept Adriana - ( I'm actually with Getresponse) - but that is the page and you can see it with some placeholder text.

What I meant by unsure is - is that the full name of the page? NO HTML or php or whatever at the end?

Just wondering if that was what was wrong?

BTW terminology - what I mean by thank you page is the page you see directly after subscribing. I also want to use a Confirmation page on the blog too!

Just got an email from getresponse that you have subscribed...so did you see a 404 or the thanks page?

:-)

[Jackie Lee]

Sometimes it takes get response a LONG time to show those pages. I'm assuming you've put your thank you page url in the settings area as a site you want people to go to after they've clicked the confirm or some other link?

Give it time ~ that may be the only problem ~

It's one of the most frustrating things for me about getresponse.

[AlexNewell]

That is a really nice thought!

Thanks Jackie

I am pretty impatient - I want it done now!

;-)

[Jackie Lee]

you and me both. I"ve shot myself in the foot, deleting/changing generally mucking with those links in there to find out they worked just fine I just hadn't given them time. :(

If you've used the url that shows up when you have the page open it should work, just give them some time.

[AlexNewell]

I'm taking that as an Official "Cool it Alex!"

I'll focus on the writing now then and check again tomorrow!

:-)

Thanks!

[jezhunt]

Sometimes it can help putting the "/" at the end of the URL

BTW, I saw the 404 page when I signed up

[AlexNewell]

Thanks jez - I'll try the trailing slash. I get different advice on that!

[Adriana]

Alex, I signed up too (earlier), and got the 404 page. I see it now though. The page extension depends on how you set up your permalinks, so if you chose this: %postname%/, that would be how your page looks like: no need for htm or html at the end.

As far as the confirmation page, go through the exact steps you went thought when setting up you thank you page and then enter it into the appropriate field at getresponse, and you should be all set.

[AlexNewell]

Thank you Adriana.

I'll check the permalinks in a moment. Because I'm only using this blog as a squeeze page I may not have set things up in my normal way.

[AlexNewell]

Well I'm back to the coal face after a few days focusing on the writing.

And I find I'm still stuck with these pesky 404s when I opt-in to my subscriber form.

I've noted and followed Jez advice and have my trailing / and I've checked Adriana's too about permalinks.

Just to skip to a different blog I used my messing around blog and still got the same result. I am clearly making the same mistake but have no idea what it is.

Help appreciated muchly!

:-)

Alex

[AlexNewell]

Update on my Thank you Page punch ups!

The web form is collecting contacts at http://newbie-on-the-net.com

but subscribers are seeing a 404 instead of my custom thank you page

the URL of the 404 is http://newbie-on-the-net.com/thanks-for-subscribing/

which is my thank you page with some place holder text

I don't have any seo plugins installed

there are no posts just 3 pages - front page, thanks and confirmation

When is a thank you page not a thank you page? When it's a 404!!

Hehe!

Help Much Appreciated!

:-)

Alex

PS suspecting that is a dark "codey" problem...

I edited the form code on another blog - my test bed so that the form directed the user to thanks-for-subscribing.html

Then I saved a notepad file with a filename thanks-for-subscribing.html and ftp'd it to my domain - it worked perfectly!!

What the heck is going on with the pages on the blog?

[AlexNewell]

I haven't asked GetResponse about this Rick - I really don't think that this is down to them...

Blush!

I think this is me doing something stupid or some odd feature in Wordpress I'm not grasping yet.

Coz i can get non WordPress pages to perform fine!

I just feel TOTALLY determined to have my Thank you and confirmation pages ON my blog!

Hehe!

Thanks for helping and yeah the other links don't really go anywhere, I'll sort them out when I get normal behavior from the page.

This is a sales theme BTW but I had this problem with Cutline also.

I know some folks here in the forum have done this so I'll get this solved fairly soon!