Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat Plugin

Campaign Monitor Optin Cat WordPress Plugin

The Campaign Monitor Optin Cat WordPress Plugin lets you create gorgeous Campaign Monitor sign-up forms to your WordPress site in minutes.

Gutenberg Compatible

This plugin is fully compatible with WordPress 5.0’s new content editor (“Gutenberg”). Simply create your optin form, then add your Campaign Monitor block to your website.

Opt-in Types

1. Post boxes let you add a Campaign Monitor form to a post or page using shortcodes or by automatically appending the form to the bottom of your post or page.
2. Sidebar widgets. You can add Campaign Monitor forms to your sidebar using widgets.
3. Popups. Capture more emails using lightbox popups.

Features

• Popup targeting based on time spent on page and frequency.
• Intuitive user interface, set up your Campaign Monitor forms in seconds.
• Full customization options, such as the ability to change your copy, font-size, colors and more.
• Campaign Monitor form works with responsive sites.
• Form validation.
• Redirect users to a “Thank You”-page after submission.
• Build unlimited Campaign Monitor forms.
• Analytics feature so you can learn which Campaign Monitor forms work well and which ones don’t.
• WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg support. Add Campaign Monitor blocks to WordPress’ new visual editor with ease.

Developer Friendly

• You can customize your Campaign Monitor forms using our “Custom CSS” feature.
• You can inherit your theme’s form styling by choosign our “No CSS” layout.

Optin Cat Premium

Optin Cat Premium helps you get more Campaign Monitor subscribers:

Lots of extra layout & design options.

Smart popup targeting.

Mobile Campaign Monitor popups.

Two Step Optins: Trigger a popup after the user clicks on a hyperlink.

Optin Bait Delivery: Send optin baits straight from WordPress.

Exit Intervention: Display popups when the user is about to leave your site.

Attention grabbing Popup Effects.

Priority email support.

Learn more about Optin Cat Premium >>

Roadmap

We’ve got a bunch of feature ideas, such as more opt-in form designs and various types of signup forms. We’d love to hear your suggestions, feel free to share them in the support forum.

Requirements

In order to use this plugin you’ll need a Campaign Monitor account + Campaign Monitor API key.

Relevant Links

• FatcatApps.com
• Other plugins by FatcatApps

Privacy Disclosure

This plugin stores personal data (eg. names & emails collected using this plugin) in the WordPress database.

This plugin integrates with the WordPress GDPR privacy controls for data export & data deletion added in WordPress 4.9.6.

This plugin uses a browser cookie to track successful optins.

This plugin can be configured to connect to 3rd party service providers such as Campaign Monitor.

If you use this plugin to connect to a 3rd party, personal data may also be shared with that party.

Additional privacy policy information for 3rd party services can be found here:

Campaign Monitor

Our full privacy policy is available here: https://fatcatapps.com/legal/privacy-policy/

1. Upload the plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. In your sidebar, select ‘Optin Cat -> Add New’ to create a new table

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   Examples of the Campaign Monitor form designs

2. 

   The Campaign Monitor Opt-in Form Builder

3. 

   Campaign Monitor Post Box

4. 

   Campaign Monitor Popup

5. 

   Another Campaign Monitor Post Box

6. 

   Campaign Monitor Analytics

7. 

   The whole settings screen

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.5.6

• Fix reported security vulnerability with admin dismissal notice

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.5.5

• Fixed/added PHP 8.2 Compatibility
• Updated Icon
• Fixed Gutenberg block
• Fixed HTML escaping in admin (potential XSS vulnerability)
• Tested up to WordPress 6.3

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.5.4

• Fixed error message in Publication metabox
• Fixed some other issues in Optin Cat Premium
• Tested up to WordPress 5.8

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.5.3

• Updated feedback form
• Tested up to WordPress 5.6.2

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.5.2

• Updated display name
• Tested up to WordPress 5.6

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.5.1

• Tested up to WordPress 5.5.0

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.5.0

• Add color pickers for “Thank you” message
• Add color picker for bottom half of forms for relevant layouts
• Add Gutenberg block for two-step optins (Premium only)
• Allow form navigation with Tab key
• Allow ActiveCampaign existing users to be updated
• Allow optin forms to work without email provider (store locally) (Premium only)
• Replace 3rd party Codemirror for builtin one
• Replace TinyMCE for simple text editor
• Fix preview form live updates
• Fix missing color picker labels
• Fix alignment issue with TwentyTwenty theme
• Fix optin bar display issue in IE
• Tested up to WordPress 5.4.2

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.4.0

• Fix/optimize table creation
• Tested up to WordPress 5.2.2

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.4.0

• Remove unused onboarding code
• Tested up to WordPress 5.1.0

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.3.0

• Add WordPress 5.0 block (Gutenberg) support

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.2.2

• Fix potential error on activation
• Tested up to WordPress 4.9.8

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.2.1

• Fix name field not being sent if GDPR checkbox enabled
• Fix GDPR checkbox not showing if description field is disabled

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.2.0

• Added Subscribers table
• Added GDPR compliance checkbox
• Integrated with WordPress’ GDPR data export and erasure features

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.1.0

• Added 2 new layout options
• Added descriptive names for each layout
• Improved HTML formatting & bullets
• Improved editor screenshots and styling
• Improved default color palette for color pickers
• Improved error messages
• Changed menu position from 105 to 106 to fix conflict
• Updated featherlight library to 1.7.9
• Misc bug fixes

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.0.5

• Update software licensing library

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.0.4

• Add uninstall survey
• Tested up to WordPress 4.8

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.0.2

• Fix optin form JavaScript sometimes not being enqueued on post boxes
• Update Campaign Monitor API to v5.0.2 – adds PHP7 compatibility

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 2.0.0

• Added Success Cookie feature – stop showing optins to users that have already opted in
• Rewrote targetting feature for improved compatibility
• Fixed name and email field responsive scaling
• Minified all CSS and JS files to improve performance

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.8.1

• Fix popup rule backward compatibility issue where some settings would not save (Device & Go Live toggle)
• Fix some text inputs having escape slashes around quotation marks
• Changed delete rule button to always show
• Changed add rule button to hide when all rules have been added
• Removed ‘Never’ as a display frequency option – replaced with Go Live toggle

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.8.0

• Added AJAX thank you message
• Added setting to target popups based on device (desktop and/or mobile)
• Added button hover color picker
• Added width picker for Form, Button, Name, and Email fields
• Added placeholder colors based on font colors for email and name
• Added show/hide toggle to Headline, Description, Privacy Policy sections
• Improved visual editor behavior and design
• Improved UI of popup targetting rule builder
• Changed Privacy Policy area to “After Button Area”
• Changed subscribing animation to simple text
• Changed various texts in UI
• Fix rare case of ‘one a month’ and ‘only once’ display cookie date possibly being invalid

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.7.2

• Fix “Class ‘K’ not found” error some users reported on activation

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.7.1

• Fix Power Up settings potentially getting reset on activation

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.7.0

• Merged Power Ups and Licensing page in to one with improved UI
• UI updates
• Up to 15% improved performance

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.6.3

• Update Tooltipster library to latest version for better compatibility
• Change API inputs to activate on any input (e.g. paste)
• Fix editor not working on Safari
• Fix metaboxes potentially being hidden by WordPress

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.6.2

• (Only released for GetResponse and premium)

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.6.1

• Fix button hover color being white on new forms
• Fix potential PHP issue ‘Can’t use function return value’

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.6.0

• Performance improvements of up to 50%
• UI Updates
• Fix inconsistent loading of previous settings (API keys/mailing lists) when creating a new form
• Revert sending ‘unnamed user’ as user name if empty

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.5.8

• Add auto-focus on popup
• Change ‘Name’ placeholders to ‘First Name’
• Fix custom css box sometimes hidden for personal plan
• Fix a FireFox popup display issue

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.5.7

• Fix an issue with some icons being removed/hidden

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.5.6

• Fix an issue with some icons being removed/hidden
• Fix for potential encoding type being changed by theme

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.5.5

• Each form can now be connected to a unique account (API key)
• Performance improvements: All CSS is pre-compiled, Removed several deprecated .css files
• Fixed a form saving issue that affected some PHP/WordPress installations
• Fixed PHP warnings related to remove_meta_box()

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.5.4

• Performance improvements: optin forms (particularily widgets) now load much faster

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.5.2

• Added spinning animation after form submission
• Changed ajax error message (inside of button) into something more humanly readable
• Numerous bug fixes

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.5.1

• Fixed a JS bug introduced with 1.5.0

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.5.0

• Improved performance of Optin Cat form editor in the WP backend (it now loads faster)
• Impression tracking can now be disabled
• Small UI improvements to Optin Cat form editor
• Numerous bug fixes

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.4.1

• Bugfix: Fixed a conflict with the Beaver Builder plugin
• Various other small bugfixes & improvements

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.4.0

• Changed: Updated layout selection screen to be responsive and look more like WordPress theme select screen.
• Fixed: Hide Optin Cat shortcode insert button and dashboard widget from users with privileges below editor (subscriber and author).
• Fixed: Logged in users no longer count towards impressions on forms.

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.3.9

• Fixed: A bug in our Campaign Monitor popup targeting engine caused the “display once per month” criteria to not work as expected in some cases, which kinda defeated the purpose of our fancy targeting engine.
• Fixed: Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat caused a site’s W3 HTML validation to fail due to the placement of the style tag. This wasn’t a big problem (all browsers always rendered Optin Cat properly), but not ideal.

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.3.8

• Fixed an issue related to bots causing fake conversion data.

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.3.7

• Tiny fix: Ignore shortcode if the global $post is empty

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.3.6

• Fixed a bug in the Popup targeting engine introduced in Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.3.5.

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.3.5

• Improved Campaign Monitor Popup targeting engine: changed how a session is counted (a session now expires after 30 minutes of inactivity).

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.3.4

• Improved Campaign Monitor Popup targeting engine for better performance.
• Improved Campaign Monitor Post Box targeting: only one box can be displayed at the bottom of the post at any given time going forward. The most exactly targeted post box will be given priority (eg. Individual Post > Category > All Posts)

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.3.3

• Performance improvements
• Fixed a plugin conflict with another Campaign Monitor plugin
• Minor Bugfixes

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.3.2

• Fixed a bug that caused display issues on some sites after unchecking the “New CSS” powerup

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.3

• Fixed a bug that caused some conversions to be tracked more than once

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.3

• Added Analytics feature
• Added tinyMCE button to WP Post editor
• Improved Optin Editor UI
• Various minor bugfixes
• Added the ability to customize error text
• Fixed a bug that displayed not-mobile friendly popups on some mobile devices

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.2.2

• Bugfix: “Quick edit” disappears on pages
• Improved performance / loadspeed of popup feature
• Improved performance of WP backend

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.2.0.2

• Bugfix

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.2

• Renamed plugin to Optin Cat
• Added a new layout
• Added Popup Feature
• Numerous Bugfixes
• Numerous User Interface Improvements

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.1.4

• Fixed bugs introduced with 1.1.3

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.1.3

• CSS improvements
• UI improvements
• Fixed API conflicts
• Fixed conflict with cherry plugin

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.1.2

• Numerous CSS Fixes
• Fixed issues with PHP5.2
• Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 4.0.1
• Added Easy Opt-ins Premium banner

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.1.1

• Fixed an issue that was introduced with v1.1

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.1

• Added new opt-in type: Post Boxes which can be published using shortcodes.
• Added 2 new widget layouts.
• Added 2 new post box layouts.
• Added Custom CSS power-up.
• Added “No CSS” layouts.
• Lots of UI improvements.

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.0.4

• Various changes to API integration

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 1.0

• Initial Release

Campaign Monitor Forms by Optin Cat 0.9

• Beta release