This tutorial features the Feast Plugin, which enhances and extends your theme to improve SEO, pagespeed, accessibility and user experience.
The Modern Menu integrates a "Subscribe" button that provides a call-to-action for readers to sign up for your newsletter the entire time they're on your site.
This allows you to:
- increase pagespeed by removing javascript provided by newsletter providers from every page on your site
- improve accessibility by removing forms that lack proper headings and form labels
- improve CLS by preventing forms from forcing the browser to re-render the page when it loads
- improve user experience by removing annoying pop overs
- only load javascript on a single page, reducing potential javascript conflicts
- provide a better user experience, giving them a subscribe button when they want to subscribe, not at an intrusive point in your content
See the rethinking the newsletter post for further details.
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Examples
Subscribe URL
The subscribe button is hardcoded to point to a page with the slug "/subscribe/". This page must be manually created like a normal page (title = "subscribe"). See this video:
If you want to use a different URL or redirect to an off-site form (not recommended), you'll want to create a 301 redirect using Yoast.
Grow.me
If you have the Grow plugin from Mediavine, you have the option to implement their click-to-subscribe feature.
This only appears if the plugin is active.