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Integrating MailChimp with WordPress (part 2)

Submitted by on January 19, 2011 – 10:00 amOne Comment

Using S2Member list services

Today we have a very simple tutorial which shows you how to integrate a MailChimp list with the WordPress plugin S2Member. Once you have set everything up (firstly you’ll need a MailChimp account) then people wishing to register for your site have the option of being included in your mailing list.

S2Member

s2Member is an extremely powerful ( and free ) membership management system for WordPress®. The s2Member plugin ( free ) integrates seamlessly with PayPal® ( very easy ), and fully supports recurring billing, with the ability to track affiliate commissions on a recurring basis. s2Member supports custom Pages for registration ( including Custom Registration Fields ), account access, and a whole lot more.

Generally this is far more effective at adding people to your MailChimp list than the MailChimp module for a couple of reasons:

  • For whatever reason (free downloads etc) they want to register for your site and therefore might not be too bothered about receiving the odd email.
  • Although it’s an opt in system people generally don’t like un-ticking boxes on online forms.
  • They might actually want updates but didn’t realize you offered that service.

Setting it up

Before you start you’ll need two things

  1. A MailChimp account (login to this first)
  2. S2Member plugin installed – serach for s2member in the Plugins Directory or go to www.s2member.com

Step 1

Go to the s2Member API/List Services

Step 2

Open (click) on the MailChimp List Server Integration

Step 3

To get your MailChimp API Key then simply click on add an API Key (you’ll need to be logging in to MailChimp for this).

Alternatively your API code can be found once you are logged into MailChimp by going to the Account Menu and selecting the drop down API Keys and Info.

Simply copy and paste this codeStep 4

To get the list ID you must first create on in MailChimp.

Go to View List > Settings and your unique ID for that particular list will appear at the bottom of the page

Step 5

Save the changes in S2Member and you should be all set to go!