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Announcing the User Sync feature
Moments ago, we released an update for our Premium add-on which adds a new feature called User Sync. It allows you to keep your WordPress user fields in sync with subscriber fields on a given Mailchimp list. You may be familiar with this feature from our discontinued Mailchimp User Sync plugin, which we used to More... Read more →
We dropped our jQuery dependency
Last week we released version 4.6.0 of Mailchimp for WordPress. The headline change is one that most people won't notice at all — and that's exactly the point. The plugin no longer depends on jQuery. Why this matters jQuery used to be a near-universal dependency for WordPress plugins. These days, fewer themes and plugins load More... Read more →
New integration with Google reCAPTCHA
The information in this post is outdated, as this feature was removed in version 4.7 of Mailchimp for WordPress. If you are experiencing spam sign-ups, you can read how to stop it here. If you've been having issues combating spam in your Mailchimp for WordPress forms, we have news for you. As of version 4.5. More... Read more →
What’s new in Mailchimp for WordPress version 4.4
Earlier today, we released version 4.4 of Mailchimp for WordPress. As usual, you can download it from the WordPress.org plugin repository here. In this release we further improved stability of the plugin and accounted for some edge cases in our integrations with other plugins, like for our integration with AffiliateWP and Klarna Checkout for WooCommerce. More... Read more →
Mailchimp for WordPress and the GDPR
Hopefully, you have heard about the General Data Protection Regulation by now, the new EU privacy law going into effect on May 25, 2018. Let me start out with the usual legal mumbo jumbo that I am not a lawyer and that this is not legal advice. I do believe I can share a few More... Read more →
Mailchimp for WordPress version 4.2
Version 4.2 introduces a live form preview, improved debugging for HTTP requests & responses to Mailchimp's API servers and new conditional logic features. Additions Live form preview while editing form. Improvements Improved conditional fields logic. Debug log now includes request & response data. Form JavaScript events are fired in an isolated thread now, to prevent More... Read more →
Multilingual forms with WPML
If you're managing a multilingual site with WPML, we have something for you. Just over a month ago, the wonderful people over at WPML finalised their work on an integration that makes it a lot easier to translate a single sign-up form into different languages. After activating the "Mailchimp for WordPress Multilingual" plugin, you can More... Read more →
Add a pop-up form to your WooCommerce store from Mailchimp
Pop-up signup forms can help you engage your visitors and can be a great way to grow your email lists. One option to add a pop-up to your WordPress site is to use our Boxzilla plugin. There's another option though. If you're running Mailchimp for WordPress Premium and use it to connect your WooCommerce shop More... Read more →
10 Ways to Increase Welcome Email Effectiveness
This is a guest article from SalesWings. SalesWings is an intelligent lead scoring and website tracking add-on which aligns sales and marketing around the hottest leads. It helps sales reps reduce lead qualification time by offering them insights into the nature of the leads’ interest based on website activity, as well as enriched contact information More... Read more →
Are you on the latest plugin version?
We release several new versions for our plugins every month. And while many of our (nearly one million!) users update in the first few days after an update is available, it can sometimes take weeks or even months before some update their plugin to the latest version. Just looking at the distribution of active plugin More... Read more →