How to Add a Subscribe Button to Your WordPress Blog

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Are you looking to increase your blog’s subscribers and keep them engaged with your content? One of the best ways to achieve this is by adding a subscribe button to your WordPress site. With this button, users can easily sign up to receive updates and notifications whenever you post new content. In this article, we’ll show you how to add a subscribe button to your WordPress blog using a few simple methods.

					function wpturbo_add_subscribe_button() {
    $button_markup = '<a href="https://example.com/subscribe/" class="wpturbo-subscribe-button">Subscribe</a>';
    return $button_markup;
}
add_shortcode( 'subscribe_button', 'wpturbo_add_subscribe_button' );

Note: Please replace "https://example.com/subscribe/" with the actual link to your subscribe page.
				

The code snippet defines a new function called wpturbo_add_subscribe_button that generates markup for a subscribe button. The button Markup is stored in the $button_markup variable, which is an anchor tag (<a>) with a class of wpturbo-subscribe-button. You can customize the markup to suit your design needs.

$button_markup = '<a href="https://example.com/subscribe/" class="wpturbo-subscribe-button">Subscribe</a>';

Next, we use the return statement to return the button markup. This enables us to use this function anywhere in our WordPress site whenever a subscribe button is needed. We will later see how we can use shortcodes to make this happen.

return $button_markup;

Finally, we register a shortcode by calling the add_shortcode() function. A shortcode is a shortcode tag enclosed in square brackets (e.g., [subscribe_button]). When WordPress encounters a shortcode, it replaces it with the output of the registered shortcode function.

add_shortcode( 'subscribe_button', 'wpturbo_add_subscribe_button' );

We pass two arguments to the add_shortcode() function. The first argument subscribe_button is the shortcode tag that users will use to insert the subscribe button in their content. The second argument wpturbo_add_subscribe_button is the function that generates the button markup.

After the snippet is added to your WordPress theme, you can insert the shortcode [subscribe_button] in any post or page. When the page is rendered, WordPress will replace the shortcode with the output of the wpturbo_add_subscribe_button() function. In this case, it will be a subscribe button.

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