I’ve been running into a lot of people who are using their blog as their CMS lately, and who want to combine them with MailChimp. I usually recommend they create content in their blog, then publish it to their email list automatically via our RSS-to-email tool. Believe it or not though, there are people with valid business cases for going in the opposite direction: from MailChimp to blog. All we could do for them in the past was recommend they change their business model (not exactly an ideal pitch to customers).
Thankfully, Mark Parolisi has created a WordPress plugin for MailChimp that “fetches your campaign archives and either creates them as posts in your WP database, or just displays them live by fetching them from MailChimp upon request.”
Give it a shot and let Mark know if you find it useful. Oh, and some other WP plugins for MailChimp you might like:
- WP Analytics 360 – mashes your mailchimp and website traffic into your WordPress dashboard. Shows power bloggermailers how their work is driving traffic to their site. (21,000+ downloads)
- WP signup form – stick a MailChimp signup form on your WP blog. (20,000+ downloads)
YOU READ MY MIND. Thanks.
I am using Mailchmp and using RSS to email functionality but now my requirements are changing. I want to fetch only 3 categorical Data from WordPress and send out as newsletter. Is it possible?
Some people take the 3 categories from their blog, and create a new, “mashed” feed from them. Then, they give *that* feed to our RSS-to-email tool. If you need help mashing your 3 feeds into one, we’ve created: Chimpfeedr.com
If you are savvy enough you can view the email after you’ve sent it and copy the source code.. Then put it into your blog.. A bit of an excercise but working really well for us especially once you have the hang of it!!!
Rossco xo
GOOD… GOOOD. Thanks
For some reason, this crashed my site. I got the following error:
PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2850359 bytes) in /home/katytcom/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 478
I’ve no doubt it’s user error on my end. But I just thought I’d let you know.
Katy, sorry to hear about the error. This has been happening sometimes. When the plugin activates it creates an initial record of ALL of your MC archives. This isn’t typically a problem, but WordPress constrains its application to a lower memory limit, so bumping your memory limit in the wp-settings.php file would get you rolling. It should only need a lot of memory on that first database insert, after that you could decrease the limit again and be fine. I’ll work on improving this in my next version. Thanks for the feedback
Great to see you give WordPress development focus. The WP plugin is so-so from a design possibility pov. I hope you will work on that as well.
What does ‘a design possibility pov’ mean? I’d gladly consider it if I understood what you were referencing.
Im looking for some help with a problem in this plugin.
I started a thread about it over at wordpress support.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/427969?replies=1#post-1612892
Its an issue with font tag being convereted to span tag with syling.
Thanks,
Jesse
Mine doesn’t seem to work. It’s installed just fine, but it doesn’t add new people to the list when you fill it out. How do I troubleshoot this? I’m using a custom theme.
That’s the other plugin
http://blog.mailchimp.com/plugins/mailchimp-wordpress-plugin/
Totally love this plugin – however it just needs a final tweak before its super useful to me.
Is there a way to add an option for the plain text version only to be posted to WP? the html version doesn’t play nice with my WP CSS etc, and just looks dreadful. I’d love it if it came across unstyled, and then the WP CSS could style it the same as the rest of my blog.
cheers!
Anyone have a good example site where this plugin is installed? This looks like it could be an exciting addition to our website.
I have installed the plugin but i keep getting
“cannot activate plugin, fatal error” ???
I have tried deleting and deactivating etc but still having the same problems?
Any ideas? Im using WP version 3.0.4 (latest)
Cheers
This plugin >
http://blog.mailchimp.com/plugins/mailchimp-wordpress-plugin/
OK, so the plugin is installed and works ok, but i see a load of CSS code type stuff at the top of the mailchimp email in the wordpress post which looks nasty and i have to edit each post and remove it, how do i change it so it doesnt need manually editing each time?
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hi there, does MailChimp work with wordpress premium themes?
I am starting a classifieds website and I’ll want to export listings from my wordpress website to an HTML newsletter.
Is this possible with MailChimp and if so, how does the Mailchimpr work with a wordpress premium theme?
This is fantastico—thanks for making a great plugin!
This is an amazing idea! wish we had found it sooner. Now we can post all the newsletters on our blog!