kathrynwp on "Liberate subscriptions from widget to shortcode?"

Hi Adam - Jetpack subscriptions do require widgets, but it's actually quite easy to add a widgetized area to a site - it generally takes under 10 minutes to add the necessary code, even if you're not a PHP whiz. :-)

Here are some tutorials that can help:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes#I_have_a_theme_with_more_than_one_sidebar._How_do_I_make_them_all_dynamic.3F

http://www.designchemical.com/blog/index.php/wordpress-tips/wordpress-tutorial-adding-a-widget-area-to-your-theme-files/