Can anyone help me with this?
Paul, how do you want this to work with MailChimp, like, walk us through the use case you’re envisioning?
Okay – so if I want someone to click a link in an email to go to a blog post, how could I say “Welcome back Paul” on the page?
Or when the click the link in the confirmation email, how could I say “Congratulations Paul!”?
You’d need MailChimp to include their firstname in the link. Then urlparams could display their name since it’ll be in the URL.
See this for more info:
http://kb.mailchimp.com/merge-tags/personalization/create-unique-campaign-urls-for-subscribers
For your URL in MailChimp, use something like http://mysite.com/somepost/?FirstName=*|FNAME|* as that’ll then merge their first name into the URL and then urlparams can pick it up with [urlparam param="FirstName]
Thanks for your help! Could I also ask – is there a way to strip the “?FirstName=Bob” from the URL once the plugin has used it (almost like redirect or something)? So the URL would just look normal and users wouldn’t see the “?FirstName=Bob” part?
