MailChimp Email Marketing Blog » Plugins

Update to Social Plugin for WordPress

Aarron — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:00:25 +0000

We recently released a cool little WordPress plugin called Social that pulls the conversations on Twitter and Facebook about your blog into each post and makes it easy to broadcast to social channels when you publish. We were scratching our own itch. We’ve pined for a better way to handle comments on our blog, so we teamed up with our friends at Crowd Favorite to make a tailor-made solution. It turns out that we’re not alone. Ten thousand people have tried Social on their blogs too. After months of usage, we discovered a few things we could do better. Today we’re releasing Social 2.0 with a whole bunch of improvements:

A better interface to display retweets
Shows Facebook Likes
Post to Facebook pages
Import Facebook Likes
Improved threading of replies from social networks
Improved Facebook open graph search for responses
Enable broadcasting by default for new posts
Complete re-architecture and rewrite to make platform more extensible (easier to add Google+ support, when their API is released)
Enable broadcasting by default for new posts
Set which accounts (including pages) are checked by default
New queue system for checking for social comments on posts
Better support for shortened URLs
Delay broadcasting comments to social networks until they have been approved
Delay broadcasting future posts to social networks until they have been published
New authentication scheme for improved security
Smart detection of retweets as understood by humans (where possible)
Check for social comments via admin bar
Check for social comments via posts list screen
Added “time until next check” (in a human friendly format) to the social comments box for each post
Allow editing of social broadcast messages for scheduled posts
Directly imported tweets (by URL) are approved immediately (not held for moderation)
Don’t import private tweets as comments
Refactored personal vs. global broadcasting accounts, with defaults available for each
Improved admin UI

We’re pretty excited about this update as it makes a plugin that we already loved even better. Oh, and Social is open source. You can fork it on Github and make your own contributions.

download Social 2.0 for WordPress

Fork Social 2.0 on Github

Shopify Plugin for MailChimp

Amanda — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:32:37 +0000

Dialect, a small web marketing company on Vancouver Island in Canada, has developed a plugin that connects your Shopify online store with MailChimp.

It works by allowing you to process a Webhook from Shopify and subscribe the purchaser to a specific MailChimp list. In a nutshell, Webhooks enable you to collect information about events as they happen in near real-time. (read more about the MailChimp API and Webhooks here)

You can grab the plugin and installation instructions here. Then, all you need to get started is your Shopify Shop ID and MailChimp List ID.

Use another ecommerce or shopping cart solution? MailChimp also currently intergrates with Magento, osCommerce, PrestaShop, Foxy Cart and ZenCart. Be sure to take a look at our extensive list of plugins for more info.

vBulletin Email Marketing Plugin

Ben — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:30:14 +0000

The folks at BestRecipes.com.au have created a vBulletin MailChimp plugin.

It allows vBulletin forum administrators to add email newsletter subscription options to their member registration forms like this:

btw, I’ll be trying this Banana Pikelets recipe this morning. eep eep!