Support » Plugin: MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress » How to add Merge tags for subscriber counts

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  • Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    Hi there,

    You can use the subscriber chiclet provided by MailChimp.

    http://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-subscriber-chiclet/

    Just copy the JavaScript snippet and paste it into your form mark-up.

    Will look into offering this from inside the plugin as well! 🙂

    Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    So I did some more research and as it turns out MailChimp removed the chiclet feature when they implemented their new design. (tweet)

    I’ll add a form variable to the plugin. So if you use something like {subscriber_count} in your form mark-up it will be replaced by the actual number of subscribers. Good enough? 🙂

    Thread Starter kylesalonga

    (@kylesalonga)

    terrific thanks Danny!

    Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    Hi, you can now use {subscriber_count} in your form mark-up to show the actual subscriber count.

    A few notes on this.

    • The number of subscribers is cached for 30 minutes by default, to reduce (slow) round-trips to the MailChimp server.
    • If you select multiple lists, the sum of subscribers for all the selected lists will be shown

    If you like this functionality, would you be so kind to leave a review? Thanks!

    Majklas

    (@majklas)

    any way this widget will be implemented? Maybe there’s a code for custom insert in let’s say text widget ?

    Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    Hi Majklas,

    You can use {subscriber_count} in your MailChimp for WP form mark-up to show the count of your list its subscribers.

    Majklas

    (@majklas)

    Thank You Danny for quick answer. But if I insert {subscriber_count} in my post, it shows as it is: “{subscriber_count}”
    Do I need to do_shortcode({subscriber_count}) ?
    Sorry for this kind a questions.. 🙂

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