How can I create a dedicated email newsletter sign up page?

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

Goal: create a dedicated Shopify Debut theme page/URL for an email newsletter sign-up instead of only a footer form.

Approaches suggested:

  • App-based: use AVADA Email Marketing (free plan) to build sign-up forms/popups and insert them into any page; alternative page builders include Pagefly and Gempages.
  • Code-based: create a new page (e.g., “Newsletter”) and implement a custom page template (page.newsletter.liquid) by copying the newsletter form code from footer.liquid. The provided Liquid snippet uses the Shopify ‘customer’ form, adds a hidden “contact[tags]=newsletter”, handles success/error states, and includes translation strings and an icon.

Technical context:

  • Debut is a Shopify theme; Liquid is Shopify’s templating language for theme files. The code snippet is central to understanding the manual setup.

Latest update & status:

  • The original poster asked where exactly to embed the provided code in the theme files. No clear instructions on file location were given yet, and the thread remains open without a resolved implementation path.
Summarized with AI on February 22. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi there, thanks for getting back to me. Where exactly would I embed this?

Thanks!