Title: MailChimp Newsletter Widget
Author: Matthew Poer
Published: <strong>February 1, 2011</strong>
Last modified: February 1, 2011

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# MailChimp Newsletter Widget

 By [Matthew Poer](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matthewga/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/mailchimp-newsletter-widget.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-newsletter-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-newsletter-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-newsletter-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-newsletter-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mailchimp-newsletter-widget/)

## Description

I wrote this plug-in mostly as an attempt to learn more about creating WordPress
Plug-ins, but I think it is potentially useful for certain folks and so I am releasing
it as an open-source, unsupported piece of software. I hope you enjoy it.

The goal of the plug-in is to help a WordPress Site Administrator integrate a MailChimp
mailing list into the WordPress site. Once the plug-in is installed, you must provide
a MailChimp.com APIKey, then select a list to enroll your visitors to.

The default widget is practical, but not very pretty. Basically, it includes a typical
widget layout containing three input fields, one hidden field to track the page 
URL, and a submit button. The HTML for the widget can be customized to fit your 
site and WordPress theme. If you choose to do this, please don’t try to change the
input fields’ NAME or ID attributes. It won’t work if you change these.

## Installation

Like any other WordPress plugin, there are a few different ways to install the files.
The easiest way for will be to upload the files directly to the server.

 1. Download the Plug-In if and save it to your computer. The plug-in can be found 
    at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailchimp-newsletter-widget/
 2. Unzip the plugin package. You will find documentation and two PHP files. The WPMC.
    php and MCAPI.class.php must both be placed on your server.
 3. Using FileZilla or your favorite FTP/SFTP client, place these files in your wordpress
    directory at /wp-content/plugins/.
 4. Now navigate to your WordPress installation and to the Plugins panel.
 5. Click the Activate link to have WordPress utilize the plugin. WordPress will confirm
    the the plugin was activated and you will see a new menu item in the dashboard 
    entitled MailChimp.
 6. See the included PDF or ODT File for configuration insturctions.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“MailChimp Newsletter Widget” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Matthew Poer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matthewga/)
 *   [ matthewpoer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matthewpoer/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mailchimp-newsletter-widget/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/mailchimp-newsletter-widget/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mailchimp-newsletter-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mailchimp-newsletter-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.7 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.7**
 * Tags
 * [mailchimp](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/mailchimp/)[newsletter](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/newsletter/)
   [widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-newsletter-widget/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Matthew Poer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matthewga/)
 *   [ matthewpoer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matthewpoer/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mailchimp-newsletter-widget/)

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