Title: MailChimp Integration
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# MailChimp Integration

 *  [mgmtadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mgmtadmin/)
 * (@mgmtadmin)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mailchimp-integration-25/)
 * Hi!
 * Is there anyway to link the emails submitted via the form to be added to a mail
   chimp list?
 * Thank you!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-before-download/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-before-download/)

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 *  [dtynan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtynan/)
 * (@dtynan)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mailchimp-integration-25/#post-6517888)
 * There is no mailchimp integration built into Email Before Download (EBD).
 * There are hundreds of mailchimp-related plugins though. Some of them might work
   with EBD or with its plugins (like Contact Form 7). For example, maybe something
   like this one might work for what you need – [https://wordpress.org/plugins/gwebpro-contact-form-7-mailchimp-extension/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gwebpro-contact-form-7-mailchimp-extension/)
 * Or, you could use something other than EBD. The paid version of [https://wordpress.org/plugins/double-opt-in-for-download/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/double-opt-in-for-download/)
   claims to have mailchimp integration of some type and it does a form with a file
   download, similar to EBD.
 * If you have programming skills, it probably wouldn’t be that difficult to modify
   the EBD code to add subscribers to a mailchimp list. If you’ve never used the
   mailchimp API, then I suggest you use the old version 1.3 php api, which is going
   to be more straightforward and far less buggy than the latest one. If you’re 
   doing nothing more than adding email addresses & a bit of related info to a single
   list (not a group or segment), then it won’t be too difficult. One minor item
   to watch out for — you can’t add an address that already existed & then unsubscribed(
   you need to first delete it, then readd it, or you need to resubscribe it rather
   than readd it). I can’t recall if the API has a simple way to deal with that 
   or not.
 * One other point — you don’t really know if the email address is valid or not 
   at the time the user downloads the file from your site (assuming you have EBD
   set to “inline” or “both”). So, you’ll probably get some bad addresses entered
   into your list from people who put in fake email addresses in order to get the
   download file. They’ll bounce & mailchimp will clean them, but it’s always best
   to prevent that if you can (since too many bounces is bad for your list in their
   eyes). Of course, you would get fewer bad/fake email addresses if you set EBD
   to “email” since people couldn’t get the file unless they put in a valid email
   address.

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