Getting Started

The MailPoet for Caldera Forms add-on provides an easy way to use Caldera Forms to subscribe visitors to your MailPoet lists. You can integrate MailPoet sign up into your contact form or use Caldera Forms to build a mailing list optin form or to sell courses, or to nurture leads into customers.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a contact form with optional MailPoet sign up. You can apply what you have learned here to building other types of forms with MailPoet.

Before You Get Started

When you purchase MailPoet for Caldera Forms, or a bundle that includes it, you will get a ZIP file for the add-on plugin in your email and it will be available in your account page. Make sure you already have Caldera Forms installed. You can install this zip file form by uploading it through the WordPress plugin installer.

When you active the MailPoet for Caldera Forms add-on, you will be prompted to active your license with the CalderaWP license manager. Licensing and other helpful account management steps are documented here.

You will also need to install the MailPoet plugin if you have not already done so, and create at least one list.

Creating A Contact Form With MailPoet Sign Up

To use the MailPoet integration features provided by this plugin, go to the Caldera Forms main admin page and click the “New Form” button at the top of the screen. In the new form modal, choose to start from a template and choose the example contact form.

Give the form a name and then click “Create Form.” This will save your form and take you to the form editor. As you can see, the layout for your form is already created for you.

You will need to add a checkbox field to get consent to add people to your list. Create one with only one option.

Now go to the processors tab and click the “Add Processor” button. In the modal window that opens, select MailPoet. This will add the MailPoet processor to your form, and open its settings.

You will then need to map the email field and a name field in the settings. The fields needed by MailPoet will appear along with dropdown menus containing the fields in your form so you can map them.

Save your form and you are ready to go!