Title: [Plugin: Mailchimp] Custom merge fields missing from WordPress admin area
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Mailchimp] Custom merge fields missing from WordPress admin area

 *  [sempervirent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sempervirent/)
 * (@sempervirent)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp/)
 * In my Mailchimp admin area, the following Merge fields are available:
 * Email
    First Name Last Name Organization Your Name
 * The “First” and “Last” name fields are being kept for legacy reasons. I want 
   to have one field (“Your Name”) where people can put their first or full name,
   at their discretion.
 * Unfortunately, “Your Name” never shows up in my WordPress “Mailchimp Setup” screen.
   When I added “Organization” this morning it did not show up immediately, but 
   it did show up after about an hour. But “Your Name” hasn’t shown up yet, roughly
   four hours after it was added.
 * Are these custom fields pushed out via the API at regular intervals, or should
   they be available to the Mailchimp WordPress plugin in realtime?

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 *  [mc_jesse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mc_jesse/)
 * (@mc_jesse)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp/#post-1867476)
 * When you click the “update list” button we will pull in current list information
   like the merge vars. Other than that, they are not updated automatically.
 *  Thread Starter [sempervirent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sempervirent/)
 * (@sempervirent)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp/#post-1867490)
 * Thanks for responding, that worked just fine. But I think the placement and/or
   labeling of that button is misleading, considering what it does. I thought it
   would only update the list chosen in the dropdown menu. It does do that, but 
   if that list is already selected (I only have one list) I would not otherwise
   see any reason to “Update [The Selected] List” because it’s already selected.
   Just my experience.

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 * [api](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/api/)
 * [Merge](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/merge/)

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 * Last reply from: [sempervirent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sempervirent/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mailchimp/#post-1867490)
 * Status: not resolved

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