Title: [Plugin: MailChimp Widget] double-optin?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: MailChimp Widget] double-optin?

 *  Resolved [stl99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stl99/)
 * (@stl99)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-widget-double-optin/)
 * Hi,
 * I really like the simplicity of this plugin but I’m missing a double-optin feature!
   Do you plan to add this in the future?
 * Best
    Thomas
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailchimp-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mailchimp-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [jameslafferty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameslafferty/)
 * (@jameslafferty)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-widget-double-optin/#post-2250029)
 * Hi stl99,
 * Thanks for the nice feedback. 🙂
 * I’m not sure what you mean by a double optin feature. Could you clarify a bit
   what you mean?
 * Cheers,
 * James
 *  Thread Starter [stl99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stl99/)
 * (@stl99)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-widget-double-optin/#post-2250032)
 * Sure – Someone who signs up for an email list gets a confirmation email with 
   a link that he must click before he’s added to the list.
 * It’s mainly for privacy/anti spam reason…
 * Cheers
 *  Plugin Author [jameslafferty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameslafferty/)
 * (@jameslafferty)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-widget-double-optin/#post-2250033)
 * Ah, that. MailChimp handles that part of things on the backend. When someone 
   signs up for your newsletter/mailing list, they’ll receive an email asking them
   to confirm. You can also customize the look and feel of the notification in MailChimp’s
   admin tool.
 * Cheers,
 * J.
 *  Thread Starter [stl99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stl99/)
 * (@stl99)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-widget-double-optin/#post-2250038)
 * Ah, ok – I thought the plugin has to enable this feature…!
 * Thanks again for giving away this nice piece of code 😉

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 * Last reply from: [stl99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stl99/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp-widget-double-optin/#post-2250038)
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