Mark Parolisi

[...] Mark Parolisi has created a WordPress plugin for MailChimp that “fetches your campaign archives and either creates them as posts in your WP database, or [...]

oops. Link to the repository added.

1. That’s correct. I’ll have to default it to the admin.
2. I’ll try to work that into the next big release
3. First time I’ve seen it do that exactly. Since everyone writes their HTML newsletters a little differently, I’m trying to make them all output the same and its been a chore.
4. Fair Enough. Will add to the next release
5. A little nit-picky IMO , but a request none-the-less.
6. Ok, I guess I’ll add that option, but to me, this is definitely more of a ‘post’ post type.

You should try the live fetch. it doesn’t have any of the problems you encountered. The post saving was just release the other day, so forgive the bugs.

Not taking it negatively. I really appreciate it and will get on these updates. I see why the live fetch isn’t working for you, and I’ll fix that also. Look for an update soon. My stupid oversight on Permalinks.

I’ve barely started working with the plugin, but am very excited for its capabilities, Mark. I have to echo Chris’s comments about enabling draft status though.

Almost every newsletter I do involves some sort of call to action back to the client’s website (as an example). Often this is overtly stated in the text in ways that make it redundant, or worse confusing, if it’s actually appearing ON the website in question. I currently post newsletters back to the original website by hand and ALWAYS have to tweak the content a little to make it”make sense” in it’s new context.

Long way of saying – +1 for save as draft.

Specifying which list to pull from and which category to post to would be huge benefits as well. The category control would allow me to build a special page of the site specifically for newsletters, restrict it to displaying only the newsletter category, and thereby fully automate this process for clients. (assuming they could live without the text edits mentioned above.)

Terrific job. Looking for the tipjar : )

Paul

When I try to install the plugin I get this error: Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” I’m on WP 2.9.2.

Any idea why? thanks!

Thank you for the wonderful plugin! I did get the fatal error when I tried to activate it as well….it seems to not want to play nice with the MailChimp List Subscribe Form…but I deactivated the form and wa la worked!

Please Mark what does this plugin do? How is it different from the one that MailChimp created for WordPress?

Thanks in advance

Great plugin! Works really well and is easy to integrate.

Unfortunately, I can’t use it right now because the one feature I need is missing It’s been mentioned above already, I think, but right now, my clients move their sent campaigns into an Archive folder in Mailchimp, and that’s the code I use to display on their website. It would be nice to be able to choose the folder of newsletters to display, rather than just showing all the drafts/unsent campaigns in the main folder.

Looking forward to future releases of this plugin, you’ve done a great job. Thanks!

First, this makes my life sooooooo easy, I can eat bananas all day long.

Second, I need to do some tweaking or something, there are many foreign languages posting in the article on the newsletter archive page that contains the excerpt when you go over here: —> http://www.thenewdepotplayers.com/?cat=19

And lastly, the menu bar is hovering over the content of the newsletter email from the archive here: —> http://www.thenewdepotplayers.com/?p=255

Two minor things, just wondering what I did wrong so I can fix it and have some banana pudding.

Tom Johnson

This is the teaser in the webmail archive article post that concerns me: News from The New Depot Players Posted by admin on Mar 6, 2010 in Newsletter Archives | 1 comment
View past issues | RSS subscribe to list translate Englishالعربيةбългарскиcatalà中文（简体）中文（繁體）HrvatskiČeskyDanskNederlandsSuomiFrançaisDeutschΕλληνική…

It’s coming straight from the folder on my MailChimp Newsletter Archive folder. If you go to this link you can see it at the top of the page here: http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=9a9ec1a03f7e3b888fde65544&id=2dd4b90433

Excited for the possibilities of this plugin but with the first test it messed up all of the formatting: http://blog.thestartupdigest.com/

Any thoughts to why its doing this?

[...] site on a CMS (yes, I just called WP a CMS), this project afforded me the opportunity to create the MailChimp Archives [...]

I tried your link, but it 404′d
It’s hard to speak to your issues with the images. They may be bad links, or the file permissions may be off. But the plugin doesn’t touch the actual email message, it just pushes it into the database. Send me a new link and I’ll take a look.

I see 3 404′d images in that mail message. All three have been linked as stock photos from MailChimp. They may have deleted/moved the files or are preventing your site from hotlinking to them.

I tried your plugin and all seemed to work fine at first. Then I started to get an error log on the server that eventually timed out the entire site. I am running 3.0. Any suggestions? The error message just keeps looping and filling up the error log. Here is part of the message.

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Wendy, not sure what I could do with it differently in 3.0. I could possibly make a custom post type or taxonomy for the data, however I don’t know if people are willing to have plugins start doing this automatically. Maybe I could work it into the options. Any thoughts?