We recently launched a new email template language that makes it easy to code emails that tie into the MailChimp email design tools. If you are designing emails for your clients, this is pretty huge, as you can create designs that ham-fisted, non-designers can tweak through the design inspector, without having to touch your code. We’ve just made it even easier for designers and coders to rock the email template casbah. Read More
A little while ago, Google called us on the phone.
You’d think that seeing “Google, Mountain View” on your caller ID would make us pretty excited. But the truth is, it’s more of a frightening experience (along the lines of, “Oh God did we break the internet?).
Turns out it wasn’t so bad…
MailChimp integrates with a ton of applications, like Batchbook, Magento, Salesforce, Drupal, WordPress, Freshbooks, Paypal, Wufoo and more (there’s an ever-growing at mailchimp.com/extras).
There are so many now, that managing your different integrations can be tough. So we created this new “Integrations Dashboard” under your Account page.
It’s a great birds-eye-view of all the apps you’ve linked to MailChimp, and what their status is. If you’re experiencing any issues sync’ing data with one of them, this is where you can go to diagnose.
If your site came before your blog, you probably installed WordPress into a subdirectory like we did at http://www.MailChimp.com/blog.
When you log into WordPress and look at the dashboard for your awesomely new WordPress Analytics Plugin, you’re probably wondering how you can limit the data to only your blog traffic.
Here’s how we did it at MailChimp…
We are big fans of the popular content management system Expression Engine, which makes building and maintaining websites a breeze. We like it so much we actually use it to manage this website. Expression Engine has an open architecture that facilities development of custom plugins and extensions, so you can easily add new tools, features, or tie into your favorite APIs elsewhere.
