If you are like me, you have been on the lookout for a fast and straightforward way to connect Mailchimp to your WordPress forms. Well, look no further. Our Mailchimp add-on includes an incredible starter template.
The form template automatically converts your existing Mailchimp audience fields into WordPress form fields with a simple click of the button. To get started all you need is your Mailchimp API key. So let’s begin!
Access your Mailchimp account and retrieve your API key
If you don’t have a Mailchimp account, head over to mailchimp.com and click the Sign-Up Free button. Create your account, log in and finish completing your Mailchimp campaign. At a minimum, you will need to create an audience.
Add/Find your Audience in your Mailchimp account
To create your Audience navigate to Audience > Audience Dashboard > Manage Audience > View Audiences > Create audience. If you get stuck, Mailchimp’s help center is an excellent resource.
Retrieve your Mailchimp API Key
Navigate to Profile > Extras > API Keys > Create API Key. Copy and save the key to your clipboard.
After that, log in to your WordPress website, head to Ninja Forms > Settings > Mailchimp > API Key, and paste in the API key. If you need help, our documentation goes into further detail.
Initiate the Mailchimp Sign-up Form template on your WordPress site
First, locate the template, go to Ninja Forms > Add New > click Mailchimp Sign-up Form
Second, select your Mailchimp audience list from the provided dropdown, add a Form Title, and Create.
After that, a personalized WordPress form will automatically generate. Matching your Mailchimp audience fields and segments, into corresponding WordPress form fields.
Review the Mailchimp action
First, open Email and Actions. Check that the Mailchimp action is enabled, toggled to green. Notice that the template names the action MyMailchimp. For WordPress forms not using the template, the action name is simply, Mailchimp. Open up the MyMailchimp action, to reveal that the WordPress form fields now match each audience field, including the special interests/segments.
There you have it! All you need to do now is to publish and test the form.
That’s easy! What’s next?
Now that you know how easy it is to connect Mailchimp to your WordPress forms using our Mailchimp template, why don’t you give it a try? Our Mailchimp add-on can be purchased al la carte and comes included with priority support.
Need more than one license? We offer five-site and twenty-site licenses too! With our 14-day money-back guarantee, what do you have to lose? Give our Mailchimp add-on a try, and let us know what you think!
Are you curious to see what else you can do with Mailchimp? In Connecting Mailchimp to WordPress: Everything You Need to Know, we discuss four ways you can use Mailchimp to create a top-tier subscription list. Worried about GDPR support? Don’t be. Find how to use Mailchimp GDPR features with our WordPress forms. Need a quick way to give your campaign a boost? Find out how to send custom data to Mailchimp without asking users to fill out more fields!
C-A says:
Any chance you’re updating the Mailchimp add on to actually use the lists marketing_permissions fields instead of doing it like you describes in this old post, https://ninjaforms.com/blog/mailchimp-gdpr-features/ ? Or is there another way to fill in the marketing_permissions fields when using Ninja Forms with the Mailchimp add on?
It would be really useful and that is the thing I miss most in the plugin.
Shaylee Hansen says:
Hello 👋,
Our Mailchimp add-on comes included with a Mailchimp Opt-in field that can be added to the form and functions in a similar way to the Marketing Permissions field example. Feel free to add the HTML snippet found in the GDPR article to the Description section of the opt-in field. For additional assistance, please contact our support team: https://ninjaforms.com/contact/