## Subscribe forms

Product: Verba - Modern Blog & Magazine WordPress Theme
URL: https://hub.jkdevstudio.com/docs/verba/header-and-footer/subscribe-forms
Updated: 2026-09-22
Summary: Verba includes a self-contained Mailchimp integration, so a working signup form needs no chain of plugins. If you use another service, here are the two routes.

## The built-in route: Mailchimp

Subscriptions in Verba work through the theme Mailchimp integration. It is not a wrapper around somebody else's plugin and not a form you assemble by hand: the integration is self-contained, installs as one unit, and pulls nothing external behind it.

What that saves you: a working signup form does not require a forms plugin, plus a newsletter plugin, plus a plugin to connect the two. One integration is the whole chain.

Everything about the form (connecting your account, choosing a list, the fields, the wording, and what happens after somebody subscribes) lives in the integration itself. See Mailchimp.

Where the form appears on the site: the call to action above the footer, content zones, and the sidebar. See Call to action, Content zones and insertions, and Basic settings.

## If you use another service

Mailchimp is not required. If you are already on another service, the theme does not get in the way; the route is just different. Two cases, and they really are different.

**Your service gives you form code.** That code has to go somewhere. Two working options: show the form in a modal window through the modals integration, or put the code in a free content zone, meaning the call to action above the footer, the footer, or an insertion point inside a post.

**Your service has a WordPress plugin.** Easier still: almost all of them provide a form shortcode. Put the shortcode in the same zones the theme uses for its own form, and yours replaces it. Nothing needs overriding in code.

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This is an equal option, not a workaround. Mailchimp support is built in, which makes it the shortest path, and that is the only advantage it has.

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## Consent and privacy

A subscribe form collects personal data. Handle consent and link your privacy policy from near the form. See Cookie consent and Legal pages.

Contact forms are a different job with a different integration. See Contact Form 7.

<details><summary>Can I have more than one form on a page?</summary>

Yes, but ask whether you should. Two signup boxes on one page look like a site that wants your address more than it wants to be read.

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<details><summary>Do subscribers go into WordPress?</summary>

No. They go to your mailing list at your provider, which is where they belong: the list is yours and it survives any change to the site.

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