Jetpack: subscription form shortcode not rendered

[coreymckrill]

The current News site has a subscription form in the sidebar so people can sign up to get email notifications of new News posts. This form is provided by a Jetpack widget. In the new design, the form moves to a footer position, but it's still present on many views. Jetpack has a block for the subscription form, but it's actually just a wrapper around a shortcode. It turns out that shortcodes are not rendered in block templates/parts.

There is an issue in the Jetpack repo to remove the shortcode, but it looks like it hasn't gotten any traction in over a year. Hopefully with FSE looming it will get more attention, but in the mean time, we may need to omit the subscription form or build some kind of temporary server-side block...

• embed shortcode directly for initial launch
• Once the Jetpack block no longer relies on the shortcode, switch to that.
• When we do switch to the block, we'll probably want to disable the default styles that Jetpack adds.

[iandunn]

Related WordPress/gutenberg#23626

[iandunn]

dfc9bf6 embeds the shortcode directly in the template, which works for now. Once the Jetpack block no longer relies on the shortcode, we can switch to that.

When we do switch to the block, we'll probably want to disable the default styles that Jetpack adds.