AutoChimp

Introduction:

AutoChimp allows you to automatically add, remove, and update users to your MailChimp mailing list as users subscribe and unsubscribe to your site.  You can also create campaigns automatically from blog posts.

AutoChimp uses a set of tabbed options page to help you to quickly manage your preferred settings.  In order to use AutoChimp, you must already have an account with MailChimp and at least one mailing list.

To use, just download and activate the plugin, then go straight to the API Key page and enter your API key.  Once you do that, you’ll have access to all the admin options.

The AutoChimp admin pages:

For more on the admin pages, visit the following links (also accessible through the AutoChimp menu):

  • API Key Page – Be sure to visit this page first and enter your API key, which you receive when you sign up for an AutoChimp account.  You only need to enter your key once.
  • Mailing List Page – After you enter your API key, you’ll be able to see all of your mailing lists and will be able to set options.
  • Campaigns page – Also, after you enter your API key, you’ll be able to set MailChimp campaign options.
  • Plugins page – Visit this page to integrate AutoChimp with other WordPress plugins.

FAQ:

View the complete FAQ here.

Sponsorship:

Do you want to help direct the development of AutoChimp or is there a feature that you need ASAP?  If so, consider sponsorship.

Sponsors of AutoChimp 2.0:

GrasshopperHerder Lean Startups, User Experience, and Customer Development
Web Tonic Want better search engine rankings? Get your WordPress website ranked higher on the search engines.
Latinos a Morir A private community of educated and passionate professionals who love the Latin American culture.
Allen Hancock Sponsor of the Phatwater Kayak Challenge 42 miles on the Mighty Mississippi
MailChimp Easy email newsletters
…and several other anonymous donors

Thank you all so much!  Without your support, AutoChimp 2.0 would not have been possible!

For other sponsors, contributors, bug finders, etc., check out the Acknowledgement sectionof the plugin.Requested features:
  • Attach Firstname and Lastname to the subscription does not work with the “Register Plus” plugin. Fixed in 1.00.
  • Sync existing users with mailing list.
  • Improve the “sync” feature. Available in 2.0.
  • Add support for Cimy. Available in 2.0.
  • Add support for UserMeta, Custom Fields by Tribulant, WP-Members
  • Select multiple categories for creating campaigns (checkboxes instead of select box). Available in 2.0.
  • Add an option for the “More” feature when creating a MailChimp campaign.  Send a summary of a post as a campaign. Available in 2.0.
  • Honor post scheduling when sending posts as a campaign.  Support time warp of sending campaigns. Available in 2.0.
  • Create campaigns from old posts.  Add a “Send to MailChimp” button to posts.
  • Group multiple posts by category or by date into a single campaign.
  • Support multiple mailing lists and interest groups. Available in 2.0.
  • Generate tags for Youtube and Vimeo. (ex: *|YOUTUBE:f77FQN7CHl8|*). Available in 2.0.
  • Leverage Mail Chimp campaign templates and headers. Available in 2.0.
  • Add other content to the email body (title, featured image).
  • Add support for creating campaigns from custom post types.  This way, you can turn off blog posts and create campaigns from special post types.
  • Real time updating of sync feature, log files too.
  • Analytics, Facebook, Twitter
  • Be able to add a prefix to the email subject like:  ”NEW BLOG POST:”
  • Uninstallation cleanup
  • Add a dynamic way for admins to assign results of user preference to MailChimp mailing lists.
  • Show and preset first and last names so it’s clear that those are automatically mapped.
  • Add an option to add users to a special mailing list when they unsubscribe (or various other events).
  • Add an option that lets users add a checkbox to the signup form which let’s new users instantly opt-out of MailChimp signup.
  • Patch the Force User Field Registration plugin, which currently writes the user meta information after AutoChimp syncs with MailChimp.
  • Be able to toggle the “Full Story” feature.
  • Automatically create and send email campaign to a list from a new blog post.

Contact:

Before you ask for help, be sure to take a look at the FAQ link above.  If your question is not there, feel free to send an email.  Please note: due to the plugin’s popularity and myself being generally very busy, it’s hard to answer every single email.  I could in the past, but this is very hard now.  If you need help from me, please provide as much clarity as possible and an example.  Well, anything that you think will help make your problem to be understood.  Thanks!

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95 thoughts on “AutoChimp”

  1. Hey – great plugin.

    I’m using buddypress to allow people to manage their profiles and newsletter subscriptions to mailchimp in one place, but I’m getting an error with the ListUpdateMember function. Everything seems to work fine with a new subscription, but nothing happens when I update details. I get an error code 270 in Autochimp. I know this is a tricky function, but any ideas?

  2. This is probably a long shot, but is there anyway to allow a user to opt in/out from getting signed up to mailchimp? Say if my wordpress user registration form has a checkbox? I’d rather not them be bothered by a mailchimp confirmation email if they don’t want to be a part of the newsletter.

  3. No, there’s no support for this right now, but it’s not a bad idea. Gonna add it to the list. Thanks.

  4. @Jared, @John B., @Admin,

    I, too, am using Cimy User Extra Fields and need to sync some extra fields from WordPress to MailChimp. I will be looking at the code over the next couple of days, trying to figure out how much work it will be. If anyone else would like to join me, please contact me: jcarroll@massagenet.org

    Cheers,
    James

  5. That’s great. If you end up writing some code, I’d be happy to put it into the codebase. By the way, I’m hoping to launch a fundraising project soon so we can add support to many more third party plugins.

  6. Is there any reason that Autochimp would say it was able to sync all of my users and I only see an increase of 3 on Mailchimp? I would imagine that once it syncs up the users I would see the full list of users from wordpress listed in mailchimp.

    Does it add the users over a period of time for utilization reasons?

  7. I’m using AutoChimp and I’m having issues with Mailchimp sending 2 confirmation emails when someone registers on my Buddypress website. Any idea why that happens?

  8. Hello! Thanks for the awesome plugin!

    I was hoping for a way to edit the subject line of the auto- send. I would like it to include a few primary words like – NEW BLOG POST FROM, or something to notify people in their inbox more than just the title. I don’t want this title to be on my actual blog post, so am not sure where I can edit this.

    Any help would be much appreciated!

    Thank you!

  9. There’s no way to do this now other than modifying the script yourself. I will add it to the wishlist though.

  10. Thanks for the great plugin!

    Just one question regarding the new 2.0 version. Is there a way to define a default mailing list for new categories or do I have to remember to define the list everytime I add a new post category?

  11. Thanks, Timo. No, there is no concept of a “default” mailing list. So, each time you create a new category, you’ll have to go in and assign it.

    By the way, the 2.0 version is only in beta and SHOULD NOT BE released on the WordPress site. And, although they’re system is awesome, I don’t think this is my mistake. I did not instruct the WordPress site to use the 2.0 version, but it’s there. I’ve opened a support ticket about this. I will release a new version soon to correct this problem. You can safely use this version, but just be aware that it’s not officially ready to go.

  12. I know 2.0′s not ready, but I’m just testing the plugin for possible future use for a client of mine. Not sure if it’s a known issue, but if there is a period in the category name, it won’t let you assign a mailing list or template. This particular client has a number of categories with “…” in the name. Obviously, we can change those, now that I know about the problem. But just wanted to let you know, in case it’s helpful for future development.

  14. Hi Katherine, this will be fixed in the next release. I’ll try to release it very soon, like in the next week.

  15. This is a great plug-in. I am aware that the 2.0 version is in beta. One issue I am running up against is with multiple groups with multiple interest subgroups within a MailChimp list. Appears that AutoChimp only pulls from the first group’s interest subgroup and does not show any additional group’s interest subgroup.

    I know I can get around this by generating another list or placing all subgroups into one group. Not sure I like doing either.

    Additional improvement might be to allow an option to select a group as well as an interest (subgroup) with an option to send to “any” or multiple and/or specific on both group and Interest (subgroup) levels. Just a thought

  16. Hi there,
    I was eager to try your new “campaign” feature with Template and list choice. But my first tests showed nothing in the html part of the campaign, only the text appears to be transmitted by your plugin. Am I missing something ?
    Thanks

  18. thanks, are you reffering to this part ?

    If you want more control over the visual settings of your campaigns, consider creating a user template (or copying one from the MailChimp gallery) and then selecting that template in the Campaign options. One very important key: Your main content section must be called “main”. This is where AutoChimp will substitute content.

  19. I’m pretty sure my section is defined as “main” but it’s still not showing up in HTML. Just the plain text version works. Anyone have a “step by step” tip for people like me? Thanks.

  22. Gosh, this is BY FAR the most frequently AutoChimp 2.0 question asked. I’ll have to create a special page to help folks out with this. I just updated the FAQ with more info, but it’s likely not enough for non-technical folks.

  23. I’m so thrilled this plugin is a reality.

    It’s just wonderful – and something I’d assumed was out there in the marketplace already – however as of this writing Autochimp is one of a kind goodness!

    Once our template had a in it AutoChimp put our blog post right smack where it belonged in the campaign, and away we go!

  25. I just installed the plugin. So far, I really like it. However, I am having the problem that if I select to only create a campaign with an excerpt, there is NO link in the email text. What am I doing wrong?

  26. Thank you for such a nice plugin.

    Not sure if there is any way I can sync the custom table fields i created in WP DB?
    if so, can you cast some light to me?

    Thank you

  27. Hello,

    I have a WP site where I moderate new members for my purposes, however, even though a newly registered member is not yet accepted / moderated, AutoChimp is adding them as a subscriber to my MailChimp list.

    This could result in subscribers on my list who have been rejected.

    Is there anyway of only syncing accepted subscribers?

    Thank you

  28. I should also mention I am using the WP-Members plugin to register new members and the moderation settings are within this plugin.

  29. I am also interested in the groups possible feature. We have a single mailing list, so that we can include several interest groups among the complete list.

    If at a minimum, we could tell autochimop which sub-groups to add the wordpress subscribers to, that would be awesome. thanks.

  31. I’m not getting what the difference is between a user template and a Mailchimp gallery templates. Where do I find a user template. It seems to me that mailchimp only has mailchimp templates.
    Also, how do I title the content area “main” ? do I just type it in the main content area or what. I’m really having trouble getting this to populate with our blog info.

  32. Hello,

    Thanks for a great plugin. I have an issue I found, “Only use an excerpt of the post (AutoChimp will include a link back to the post). If you wrote an excerpt, that excerpt will be used. Otherwise, the first 50 words of the post will be used.” Does the except part, however it is not including the link back to the post. Can you please advise on this?

    Thanks in advance!

  33. We’ve just recently upgraded plugins / wordpress version etc. Now when someone registers on the site, they receive 6 subscribe emails from mailchimp. Any ideas?

  34. Happy New Year You All, especially health !
    I have a problem with autochimp, why weekly option does not work, there is a item number to have? Someone can help me ?

  35. beautiful plugin.. this plugin is truly very handy.. i hv just begun wroking on it.. vl get in touch if i have any suggestions..

    what i can immediately think of is having a sign up form that will be category specific..
    say i signed-up for technology related news, so i will receive news only based on technology

  36. Thank you for this great plugin!!

    I need some help with sending auto-post… not sure where I did wrong, but this was what happened to me:

    - I created email template in MailChimp with blank email body
    - Write a post in WordPress and set up using this template for auto-post campaign
    - Publish the post for a test
    - I found the email campaign in my inbox has a blank body…

    Is there any special code that I should put in my template?

    Please reply me to my email. Thank you!!

  37. This can be difficult. Please check out the FAQ: “My post content does not appear when I use a MailChimp template. What’s wrong?”

  41. This is currently not supported. It’s certainly possible, but it’s a fairly advanced feature.

  42. Autochimp does not offer a signup widget, or any widget. Check out the “Mailchimp” plugin.

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