Home of WP-Members, The Original WordPress Membership Plugin
Chad Butler · ·
The first 2 months of 2021 have been focused heavily on finishing up some major plugin updates. One of those was a major overhaul of the MailChimp Integration extension.
Up until now, the extension was really a “one-way” street, passing data to MailChimp via its API. The 2.1 update incorporates a much needed change to allow two-way passing of data between the two to make this a much better overall application. Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
Generally, the WP-Members MailChimp extension is used to subscribe users to your list when they register. But using the extension’s API, it can also be used to restrict site registration to users who are subscribed an existing MailChimp list.
This process requires the WP-Members MailChimp Integration extension.
Chad Butler · ·
The MailChimp extension will be adding support for Interests (also known as Interest Groups) in a future version. Until that is added, there is a way you can utilize Interests now with a little bit of custom code added to your theme’s functions.php file. Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
Suppose you are using the WP-Members registration form essentially as an opt-in to your MailChimp list. Essentially, you want anyone who fills out the form to be added to the MailChimp opt-in process.
This requires you to have the MailChimp extension installed and a subscribe field set up and configured. This filter will take that field and make it a hidden field, essentially triggering the MailChimp opt-in process for all users. Continue Reading →
Chad Butler · ·
Note: as of WP-Members MailChimp Integration version 2.0, merge fields can be managed directly in the extension’s admin tab. This filter remains active and supported, but it is only generally needed for customizing the process if necessary rather than defining it.
This is an example of how to utilize the wpmem_mc_merge filter to add additional mail merge fields to sync with MailChimp. Continue Reading →
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