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MailChimp for WordPress

MailChimp for WordPress plugin helps you add subscribers to your MailChimp lists using various methods. You can create good looking opt-in forms or integrate with any other form on your site, like your comment form or WooCommerce checkout.

Installing MailChimp for WordPress Lite

Like other free WordPress plugins, installing the MailChimp for WordPress Lite plugin is quite easy-going. All you need is a MailChimp account and a self-hosted website.

1. In your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins > New Plugin, search for MailChimp for WordPress and click "Install now"

2. Alternatively, download the plugin and upload the contents of mailchimp-for-wp.zip to your plugins directory, which usually is /wp-content/plugins/.

3. Activate the plugin.

4. Set your MailChimp API key in the plugin settings.

Checkbox Settings

MailChimp settings for checkboxes

• MailChimp Lists

  Choose the list.

• Double opt-in?

  Select "yes" if you want people to confirm their email address before being subscribed (recommended).

Checkbox settings

• Add the checkbox to these forms

  Selecting a form will automatically add the sign-up checkbox to it.

• Checkbox label text

  Insert the text.

• Pre-check the checkbox?

  Select "yes" if you want to pre-check.

• Load some default CSS?

  Select "yes" if the checkbox appears in a weird place.

Form Settings

Required form settings

• Load form styles (CSS)?

  If you want to load some default CSS styles, select "basic formatting styles" or choose one of the color themes.

• Lists this form subscribes to

  Choose the list.

• Form mark-up

  Use the shortcode to display this form inside a post, page or text widget.

MailChimp Settings

• Double opt-in?

  Select "yes" if you want people to confirm their email address before being subscribed (recommended).

• Update existing subscribers?

  Select "yes" if you want to update existing subscribers (instead of showing the "already subscribed" message). This option is only available in MailChimp for WordPress Pro.

• Replace interest groups?

  Select "yes" if you want to replace the interest groups with the groups provided instead of adding the provided groups to the member's interest groups (only when updating a subscriber). This option is only available in MailChimp for WordPress Pro.

Form Settings & Messages

• Enable AJAX form submission?

  Select "yes" if you want to use AJAX (JavaScript) to submit forms. This option is only available in MailChimp for WordPress Pro.

• Hide form after a successful sign-up?

  Select "yes" to hide the form fields after a successful sign-up.

• Redirect to URL after successful sign-ups

  Leave empty or enter 0 for no redirect. Otherwise, use complete (absolute) URLs, including http://.

• Successfully subscribed

  The text that shows when an email address is successfully subscribed to the selected list(s).

• Invalid email address

  The text that shows when an invalid email address is given.

• Required field missing

  The text that shows when a required field for the selected list(s) is missing.

• Already subscribed

  The text that shows when the given email is already subscribed to the selected list(s).

• General error

  The text that shows when a general error occured.

• Unsubscribed

  When using the unsubscribe method, this is the text that shows when the given email address is successfully unsubscribed from the selected list(s).

• Not subscribed

  When using the unsubscribe method, this is the text that shows when the given email address is not on the selected list(s).