I spent a few days working with the lads at WooThemes getting some MailChimp magic into one of their most popular themes, Canvas.
It turns out that a lot of their customers were asking for an easy way to add a MailChimp signup to their WordPress blogs that looked as great as the themes that WooThemes creates. As always, we’re glad to help!
The Canvas Theme settings has a “Subscribe and Connect” section that allows you to select MailChimp as a subscribe option. It’s super easy to use and doesn’t require hacking up WordPress theme files like some previous MailChimp integrations.
WooThemes has said to expect more of their themes to support MailChimp as a newsletter option in the coming future. We are looking forward to it!
A glorious threesome of my favs, WordPress, Woothemes & MailChimp.
Ditto that!!
Really glad you guys got this integration working. Canvas is an awesome theme – I’m so pleased it plays well with MailChimp now!
That’s great – now can we have same for Campaign Monitor? It’s the logical next step, right?
Is there something like this for the new WordPress “Twenty Eleven” theme?
…It’s the default theme of WordPress 3.2.
If you’ve got a self-hosted WordPress blog (so not on WordPress.com), you can use the MailChimp WordPress plugin, which allows you to add a form to a widget, or use a shortcode to add it to a page/post: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailchimp
Thanks, Kaitlin. But that plugin hasn’t been updated lately and isn’t listed as compatible with WP 3.2.
Besides, being a non-official plugin (I mean, not being maintained by MailChimp), it’s a “shaky” dependency — and I’d rather not have those in my WordPress installation.
Hey Andy! The plugin referenced above is actually the official MailChimp plugin for WordPress. Support is provided over on the WordPress forum for the plugin, and our support team and plugin developers check in frequently. From what we understand, there haven’t been any reports of the plugin not working in the latest WordPress release, though if you do see issues, let us know!
Hi, you guys are doing some great stuff. Is there anything like this for thesis theme?
You’ll have to check with WooThemes, since they have to integrate the code into their other themes as well. Let us know what you find!
Was just looking at buying the Canvas theme a couple of days ago…Will buy for sure now! Thanks Mailchimp/Woothemes for being kick ass!
You all should strongly consider integration of the Thesis theme with MailChimp. I know I wouldn’t be the only one yelling, “OOh OOh Ahh Ahh!” and feasting on a banana with joy!
Ask the guys at WooThemes! They have the code ready to go, it’s just a matter of updating each individual theme.
Frederico, Thesis is not a Woo Theme theme. Rather, it is its own, highly popular WP theme (http://diythemes.com/). I’ve tried to add a decent looking subscribe box on my own site (www.cadencemed.com/blog), with little success. As a result, I just added an icon that linked to an external Mail Chimp signup page (grrr). I’m sure I’m not the only Thesis user who has battled this dilemma!
Matt,
Sorry about the confusion. The reason we were able to do it with Canvas was that they already provided the sign-up section styled and ready to go. Does Thesis have anything of the sort?
The hardest part now is going to be how to decide whether to use my gravity forms mailchimp integration, which has been running perfectly all year long, or switch over to the canvas integration.
I’m guessing that the integration with gravity forms is much deeper than canvas could ever hope to be.
Decisions, decisions…
Thank you! We use canvas for nearly all our client projects!
I can’t seem to get the featured slider to move in Canvas theme. Only 1 of the posts I tageed appears but it isn’t moving to the remaining posts I tagged.
Thanks
Awesome! I need this…
However, is there any way to get a step-by-step with this? Not just an announcement that you’ve done it? Because when I try to do the obvious, it’s still not working…
PLEASE! :) Cheers,
Joel
Hi Joel, If you’ve not already made your way over to here: http://woothemes.chimplets.com/ I’d start there first and it’ll walk you through step by step. If you’ve already given this a go and you’re still getting tripped up, would you mind chatting up our support chimps at http://mailchimp.com/support I’m sure they’d be able to help get you through in no time.
Only three problems with this:
Minimalist style lacks email prompt for autofill
No prompt for first and last name – required by mailchimp
Subscribe only appears on blog posts in whitelight – could it be added to the header or footer?