Comments on: MailChimp Archives

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?

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:03:35 +0000

Hey Mark – are you working on an update to this for WordPress 3.0? Just curious.

By: Jai

Jai — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:40:11 +0000

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.

[08-Jul-2010 09:05:21] WordPress database error Got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes for query UPDATE `wp_options` SET `option_value` = ‘a:5439:{i:1277848406;a:2:{s:18:\”mca_savedata_event\”;a:1:{s:32:\”40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\”;a:3:{s:8:\”schedule\”;s:5:\”daily\”;s:4:\”args\”;a:0:{}s:8:\”interval\”;i:86400;}}s:18:\”mca_savepost_event\”;a:1:{s:32:\”40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\”;a:3:{s:8:\”schedule\”;s:10:\”twicedaily\”;s:4:\”args\”;a:0:{}s:8:\”interval\”;i:43200;}}}i:1277848407;a:1:{s:18:\”mca_savedata_event\”;a:1:{s:32:\”40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\”;a:3:{s:8:\”schedule\”;s:5:\”daily\”;s:4:\”args\”;a:0:{}s:8:\”interval\”;i:86400;}}}i:1277848408;a:1:{s:18:\”mca_savepost_event\”;a:1:{s:32:\”40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\”;a:3:{s:8:\”schedule\”;s:10:\”twicedaily\”;s:4:\”args\”;a:0:{}s:8:\”interval\”;i:43200;}}}i:1277848409;a:1:{s:18:\”mca_savedata_event\”;a:1:{s:32:\”40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\”;a:3:{s:8:\”schedule\”;s:5:\”daily\”;s:4:\”args\”;a:0:{}s:8:\”interval\”;i:86400;}}}i:1277848410;a:1:{s:18:\”mca_savepost_event\”;a:1:{s:32:\”40cd750bba9870f18aada2478b24840a\”;a:3:{s:8:\”schedule\”;s:10:\”twicedaily\”;s:4:\”args\”;a:0:

By: Kristin

Kristin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:05 +0000

Hey there – I’m very excited to maybe use this plugin for my organization’s upcoming newsletter project. Wondering if you have any additional samples that I can show the decision makers?

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:05:10 +0000

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.

By: Mike Russell

Mike Russell — Fri, 21 May 2010 23:20:47 +0000

Thanks for taking a peak, Mark.

Shocking design aside, you’ll see that some of the photos load and others don’t. Your suggestions?.

http://bit.ly/8XWgnI

Thanks again.
-Mike