MailChimp Subscribe
Automatically add new members to MailChimp mailing lists.
Configuration Instructions
Retrieving and configuring your MailChimp mailing lists is a two step process:
- Enter your MailChimp API key, and click the “Get clients” link. The extension includes a quick link to retrieve your MailChimp API key, in case you haven’t got it to hand.
- Select the mailing lists to which you wish to subscribe newly activated members, by ticking the checkbox next to the list name. If required, you can also select an “opt-in trigger” (see below), and map MailChimp Interest Groups and Merge Variables to custom ExpressionEngine member profile fields (EE1 docs / EE2 docs).
Trigger fields
A “trigger” field is a custom ExpressionEngine member profile field that must contain a specific value in order for the mailing list subscription to be processed.
For example, you may have a “Special Offers” mailing list, which new members must opt-in to. Here’s how to implement this:
- Create a new custom EE member profile field, and give it an appropriate field name (for example, “subscribe-offers”) and label (for example, “Receive our special offers newsletter?”). Specify
Drop-down listas the field type, and add the optionsYesandNo. - Open the MailChimp Subscribe extension settings page. Tick the checkbox for the “Special Offers” mailing list, select the member profile field you just created from the “Trigger field” drop-down, and set the “Trigger value” to
Yes.