I have done the manual sync (after just installing this plugin) to MailChimp and I put myself in the mix so I’d know what my subscribers were getting. What I received after the sync from my WordPress admin was complete, is a ‘Are you sure you want to subscribe to this list?’ email – asking to confirm subscription.
I had thought, that this plugin was for the sole purpose of transferring WordPress ‘Users’ (people that registered on your site) into the contact database of MailChimp. Is this not the case?
I also had thought that you could use this plugin somehow to compose posts within your WordPress posts area and have it send directly to your MailChip subscribers. I can’t for the life of me figure out how to make this happen. Anyone out there that can give a clue? Thanks.
Theonion – How many users do you have? I find that if I have more than a few hundred users the sync times out. I’m working on a fix but your best option right now might be to export a list of user email addresses and manually import it into mail chimp.
quantumvirtual – by default MailChimp sends a confirmation email to people who sign up for your mailing list (including through WordPress). If you don’t want this confirmation sent out you’ll need to check the box that says ‘Bypass the MailChimp double opt-in’
In order to get the plugin to email posts to your subscribers you’ll need to set up at least a default category mapping on the campaigns tab. Click “Add new post category mapping” and select a template (which you’ll also need to create over on the MailChimp side of things).
