Comments on: MailChimp Archives

By: Price

Price — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:57:39 +0000

Anyone successfully use this plugin? I’d love to see an example site in action.

Thanks,
Price

By: Carrie Dils

Carrie Dils — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:02:37 +0000

Hi Mark,
Awesome plugin! One question, though… I’m using the LiveFetch. I think the code is pulling back the campaign name to display on the page?

mca_livefetch.php prints $c['subject']

Wondering if it’s possible to fetch other data (such as message subject or name) instead? My client has the same campaign name across many newsletters and it makes picking a specific one out of the list confusing. :/

See http://www.abtstranetwork.com/wp/newsletter-archives/ for example and note that in MailChimp each of these newsletters have a unique name.

Thanks!
Carrie

By: Lexy

Lexy — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:16:50 +0000

I’ve been using this plugin to pull in minutes for my local networking group as posts. Worked great until I tried it in the last few days. Now, for some reason, nothing seems to happen when I try to Update Campaigns. Update Settings at least shows a message, but does not seem to actually save settings changes. Running on 3.0.1. Any help would be appreciated on this.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:41:35 +0000

Having the same CSS troubles as were mentioned previously. Displaying CSS code on the pages before the newsletter itself.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:26:45 +0000

Mark,

1. I’ve been having a similar problem that others have flagged – namely the lines of code before the actual mailchimp campaign is displayed.

http://staging.uqes.org.au/whats-on-week-1/

Would you mind elaborating a little on on your previous post on how to fix this? Is this in Mailchimp, or somewhere on my site?

2. Is there a way of disabling the floating bar at the top of the email campaign?

Keep up the good work!

By: Wendy Merritt

Wendy Merritt — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:44:28 +0000

I am loving this plugin! It is exactly what I was looking for the archives of some of my MailChimp campaigns. My emails pulled through just fine but they all have this gosh-awful coding for about 25 lines before the post/email begins. They are all html email campaigns. I am running WPMU 2.9.2 with a WooTheme. Do you have any idea how I can prevent this so I don’t have the edit every single email that posts?

Thanks for the awesomeness!

Blessings,
Wendy

By: lkh

lkh — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:58:31 +0000

Ran the admin page on this plugin, updated campaigns, it loaded all of them into posts as I wanted, assigned to one category, then it proceeded to past a series of styles in the post, without wrapping them and all posts (29 pages of them) are corrupted and unusable. Ideas? I can pass you the location and access credentials privately if you connect.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:48:58 +0000

Again, thanks for doing the plugin. I see my post from yesterday is still waiting for moderation – I have some updated information. I’ve been playing around with it a bit and I think I answered both my questions:

1. I see how the wp_schedule_event() call in mailchimp_archives.php sets up the scheduler that fetches the campaign and creates the posts.

2. I set up an archive folder and some archive code in mailchimp that wraps the archive in the text/css code… That works for the [mc_archives] shortcode method, It did NOT work on the fetch-to-post method (mca_insert_function called from the cron job). I see you are using the mailchimp API to fetch the archived version of the campaign, so I’m not sure why the text/css stuff is not coming through. Do you have any insights into this?

One other question came to mind – I’m not sure if you did the plugin before mailchimp added their “archive code” feature. I don’t see much of a difference between the [mc_archives] shortcode function in your plugin, and the mailchimp solution of just adding their archive code to a page on the site… Am I missing something?

I do really find the publish-campaign-to-post feature very useful. Once on the site, the content becomes searchable, and you can add categories and tags to it. I hope I can get it to work!

Thanks again,

Rich

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:31:25 +0000

Mark,

Thanks for the plugin!

Two questions:

1. RE: “wrap that CSS at the top of the document in a style type=”text/css” tag and it should be fine.”. I’m having the same issue (lots of visible css in the post). Where do you “wrap that CSS”? I’m composing the messages in the Mail Chimp editor….

2. RE: option 2 “daily scheduled event” – when does it run? I looked through the php (I’m not a pro), and I don’t see where a timer or trigger gets set up…

Thanks!

Rich

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:08:44 +0000

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?