sync_should_sync_user

Hey all,

Sorry for the late reply – crazy busy working on our set of MailChimp plugins.

Your request makes sense, but requires a bit of more work with the current way things are set-up. Basically the premise is that the plugin only unsubscribes sparingly since we don’t want to make any unnecessary (negative) changes to your MailChimp lists.

I’m a bit short on time right now but I’ll update this topic later this week with some code to do this manually before we add this to the plugin itself.

Please bear with me – I’ll get to it. Promise. 🙂

Hey all,

I’ve been giving this some more thought and will update the plugin later with code that handles this, although I have to say that it is hard to come up with a solution that would work for all because of the many different variables at play here.

Here’s some code that will “watch” the user role and tell the MailChimp Sync plugin to unsubscribe a given user when it no longer has the required role.

add_action( 'updated_user_meta', function( $meta_id, $user_id, $meta_key, $meta_value ) {

	$required_role = 'subscriber';
	$user = get_userdata( $user_id );

	// Check if user still has required role
	if( ! in_array( $required_role, $user->roles ) ) {

                // user does not have role, tell MailChimp User Sync to unsubscribe user.
		do_action( 'mailchimp_sync_unsubscribe_user', $user_id );
	}

}, 10, 4 );

You could modify this code to check for the “active” field and whether it changed to do what you want it to do.

There are multiple actions you can tell MailChimp Sync to do.

mailschimp_sync_update_subscriber       (updates a subscriber or creates a new subscriber for the user)
mailchimp_sync_unsubscribe_user          (unsubscribes the user)
mailchimp_sync_subscribe_user              (subscribes a user, ignoring whether he was subscribed already)

That should help as a starting point to get the plugin to do what you want. I’ll think of a way to make this easier from the plugin interface.

Hi Meglos,

Sorry, this slipped through my attention. Could you please give the following code a try?

add_action( 'updated_user_meta', function( $meta_id, $user_id, $meta_key, $meta_value ) {
	if( $meta_key === 'active' && $meta_value != 1 ) {
		 // user just switched to inactive, tell MailChimp User Sync to unsubscribe user.
		do_action( 'mailchimp_sync_unsubscribe_user', $user_id );
	}
}, 10, 4 );

This will only fire the unsubscribe call when the meta value for active changes to anything other than key. Otherwise, the code would be firing A LOT of unsubscribe calls repeatedly for any change in an inactive user.

Hope that helps. If not, let me know!