Thank You Pages in Wordpress?

[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!