Email and CRM

Connect Mailchimp to WordPress

Send people from your WordPress site to Mailchimp. Choose what adds or updates a contact, then match the details you want to send.

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How it works

Send WordPress contacts to Mailchimp

01

Connect your account

Connect Mailchimp to Noptin using the details requested in its settings.

02

Choose what happens

Add, update, tag, remove, or unsubscribe a contact when the connection supports it.

03

Choose the details

Add an email address and any other required details. Pick a list, audience, or tag when needed.

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What Mailchimp provides

Grow Your Mailchimp Lists

Automatically add new contacts to your Mailchimp lists when visitors subscribe, register, purchase, or submit forms on your WordPress site.

Organize Contacts with Mailchimp Tags

Keep your contacts organized by interests, signup sources, or website activity using Mailchimp tags, making it easier to manage different audiences.

Automatically Remove Contact Tags

Remove outdated tags from Mailchimp contacts based on their WordPress activity. Keep your contact records accurate without manually updating tags.

Trigger WordPress Automations from Mailchimp Events

Run automated WordPress workflows when supported events occur in Mailchimp. Turn contact activity into actions on your website without manual intervention.

Send Mailchimp Email Campaigns from WordPress

Create and send newsletters and email campaigns to your Mailchimp contacts directly from WordPress. No switching platforms or exporting contact lists.

Automatically Send WordPress Post Notifications

Notify your Mailchimp contacts whenever you publish a new WordPress post. Automatically deliver email updates that bring readers back to your website.

Send Scheduled WordPress Post Digests

Turn your latest WordPress posts into daily, weekly, or monthly email roundups. Automatically deliver fresh content to your Mailchimp contacts.

What you can automate

Manage Mailchimp contacts

List

Add contacts to a list or remove them from it.

Tag

Apply a tag to contacts or remove it.

Interest Category

Add contacts to an interest category or remove them from it.

Available in Noptin

Mailchimp events and actions

Webhooks

6 events

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  • When someone subscribes to a Mailchimp audience
  • When someone unsubscribes from a Mailchimp audience
  • When a Mailchimp contact profile is updated
  • When Mailchimp cleans a contact email address from an audience
  • When a Mailchimp contact email address changes
  • When a Mailchimp campaign sending status webhook is received; contact automations require a recipient email in the payload, which standard campaign notifications do not include

Lists

2 actions

View actions
  • Add a contact to a List in Mailchimp
  • Remove a contact from a List in Mailchimp

Tags

2 actions

View actions
  • Tag a contact in Mailchimp
  • Remove a Tag from a contact in Mailchimp

Interest Categories

2 actions

View actions
  • Add a contact to an Interest Category in Mailchimp
  • Remove a contact from an Interest Category in Mailchimp

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Ways to connect Mailchimp with WordPress

Account-specific choices

Which Mailchimp fields can you use?

Lists, tags, and custom fields depend on the connected Mailchimp account and the audience selected.

Automations

Example automations

These are examples. Available fields depend on the event and the choices on your site or connected account.

Unsubscribe a Noptin subscriber when they unsubscribe in Mailchimp

  1. MailchimpWhen someone unsubscribes from a Mailchimp audience
  2. NoptinUnsubscribe a subscriber.

Create an automation rule using Mailchimp → Unsubscribe, and configure the service to send that event to the rule’s webhook URL. Use the event email to identify the Noptin subscriber. Select Subscriber → Unsubscribe; this affects the Noptin subscriber, not just one remote list.

Add and tag new Gravity Forms leads in Mailchimp

  1. Gravity FormsWhen a specific Gravity Forms form is submitted.
  2. MailchimpTag a contact in Mailchimp

Choose a form that collects an email address, then select the Mailchimp audience and tag. The tag action is set to create a missing contact by default.

Create or update a Noptin subscriber from a new Mailchimp contact

  1. MailchimpWhen someone subscribes to a Mailchimp audience
  2. NoptinCreate or update a subscriber.

Create an automation rule using Mailchimp → New subscriber, and configure the service to send that event to the rule’s webhook URL. Use the event email to identify the Noptin subscriber. Select Subscriber → Create or Update and map the email address. Choose the subscriber status explicitly and follow your site’s consent process before subscribing them.

Add a published listing owner to Mailchimp and tag them

  1. GeoDirectoryWhen a listing is published
  2. MailchimpTag a contact in Mailchimp

Use the listing owner’s email address, then choose the Mailchimp audience and tag. The tag action is set to create a missing contact by default.

Add a contact to a List in Mailchimp when a specific Fluent Forms form is submitted

  1. Fluent FormsWhen a specific Fluent Forms form is submitted.
  2. MailchimpAdd a contact to a List in Mailchimp

Add a contact to an Interest Category in Mailchimp when a user is enrolled in a course

  1. LifterLMSWhen a user is enrolled in a course
  2. MailchimpAdd a contact to an Interest Category in Mailchimp

Add a contact to a List in Mailchimp when X days before a saved card expires

  1. WooCommerceX days before a saved card expires
  2. MailchimpAdd a contact to a List in Mailchimp

Add a contact to a List in Mailchimp when a specific weForms form is submitted

  1. weFormsWhen a specific weForms form is submitted.
  2. MailchimpAdd a contact to a List in Mailchimp

Add a contact to a List in Mailchimp when Bit Social finishes publishing a LinkedIn post

  1. Bit SocialWhen Bit Social finishes publishing a LinkedIn post.
  2. MailchimpAdd a contact to a List in Mailchimp

Start here

Set up Mailchimp with Noptin

  1. Install the free Noptin plugin on your WordPress site.
  2. Activate your Noptin license, then install the Noptin add-on for Mailchimp from Noptin → Extensions. How to activate your license.
  3. Connect Mailchimp in Noptin using the account or server details requested in its settings.
  4. Create an automation rule starting with an event from Mailchimp, choose what happens next, then run a test.

See how to install a premium extension.

How to install the Noptin newsletter plugin

About Mailchimp

Mailchimp is an all-in-one marketing platform that offers email marketing, automation, and analytics tools to help businesses design and send campaigns, manage contacts, and track the performance of their marketing efforts.

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