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Synchronize your WordPress users with Mailchimp
Today, we released version 1.0 of the Mailchimp Sync plugin. It is a free add-on plugin for our Mailchimp for WordPress plugin that helps you synchronize your WordPress users with any Mailchimp list. The plugin has been quietly available for a few months now and is already in active use on over 2.000 sites. While More... Read more →
Improvements to the CSS Styles Builder
This Tuesday, we released version 2.7.4 of the premium Mailchimp for WordPress plugin. This release was mainly focused on improving the Form Styles Builder that comes with the plugin, which lets you set styling rules for any of your forms without touching a single line of CSS. Not only did we do a total rewrite More... Read more →
Issue with Mailchimp API: “Zend Exception…”
About an hour ago, we started receiving requests from people who got the following error when performing a sign-up request using the Mailchimp for WordPress plugin. As we dig in, we'll use this page to keep you posted. 16:22 UTC: We confirmed this to be an issue on Mailchimp's side. It is not a plugin More... Read more →
New feature: Unsubscribe forms
We're proud to announce a new feature in both the free version of the plugin as in the premium plugin itself. Yesterday, we released an update to both plugins which adds the possibility to handle unsubscribes from your WordPress site. While the underlying code was already there for quite some time, what was missing was More... Read more →
Offer download to Mailchimp subscribers only
It's not uncommon to offer a reward to people for subscribing to your Mailchimp list. More often than not, this is done by just uploading file to your server and hoping no-one shares the URL. But what if you want to make sure that the people who access your download file are actually subscribed to More... Read more →
One Million Downloads
Tonight, at exactly midnight UTC, the free version of Mailchimp for WordPress was downloaded for the millionth time. Woah.. ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS. I remember writing a post in late 2013 when the plugin reached 100.000 downloads telling how I developed a rough first version of the plugin from a hospital bed in Vietnam. Now, a More... Read more →
Add a Mailchimp Top Bar to your site
Last week we've introduced the first set of add-ons for the Mailchimp for WordPress plugin. These add-ons contain functionality which we think shouldn't be in the core plugin, as too few users would be using it to justify the added complexity for others. In this post we are introducing one of the new add-ons: Mailchimp Top More... Read more →
Hello world!
I've been holding back on creating a dedicated Mailchimp for WordPress plugin blog for about a year now. Today, I finally sat down and took the time to set one up. With Mailchimp for WordPress Lite nearing 1 million downloads we can't really afford not to, right? :) Stuff like that makes for a great blog post. Anyway, More... Read more →