Help: WordPress + MailChimp = Petition

I'm trying to create a form that can be used on a WordPress page. When someone fills out the forum and clicks submit I want it to simultaneously "sign" their name to a petition and send their email to MailChimp.

What's the best way to do that?

 

Gravity forms

 

Easy.... You are just going about things backwards.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/speakup-email-petitions/

As a general rule, I find that if you need to do something in wordpress, its already been done before.

There is this as well but may not work. http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-petition-plugin/

hope that helps,
Nigel

 

Thanks, but those aren't integrated with MailChimp.

 

Isn't there some way I could do it for free?

 

its integrated with wordpress would be the point. If you want to fire things off via mailchimp just implement a mail chimp plugin. This is trivially easy stuff. The first plugin I listed will allow you to not use the php mail function to send them immediately. Once you have captured anything in wp its a piece of cake to deal with.

Not withstanding that fact. My solution already bakes in social media and a range of other things. I suspect you are spinning your wheels a bit here.

Nigel

 

That might work if this were a project I was doing for myself, but it's something I'm working on for a client. I need to have the petition signed and the email address sent to MailChimp simultaneously. If it's a piece of cake to do that I'd appreciate it if you could tell me how

 

If you need everything fully automated you have to use the API and Mandrill. I don't quite have my head around the latter. I am implementing it into magento as we speak though. Its a bit more hectic.

That said, you need to essentially replace the wp_mail function with this http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpmandrill/ and mandrill and mailchimp do the communicating and actual work. You still design everything that gets sent in mailchimp and share that template with mandrill.

Info here http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/transactional-emails-from-wordpress

Sorry I was a bit vague. I suspect I missed a step.

Nigel

 

That does seem more complicated. Thanks for your help!

 

Actually I just read that page over and its not really. Its just a logic step in the middle of the process. Just install the petition plugin then install mandrill which is going to over ride wordpress sending that transactional email. You are simply going to have to fill out a few details on the mandrill plugin and in that account associate it with the mailchimp account/template.

Its actually really polished I think mailchimp simply extended their product a bit more modular then gluing into the main mailchimp dashboard. Mailchimp is largely for sending mass emails. Mandrill deals with transactional stuff on a per email basis. Much like a shopping cart where orders are placed and the emails have dynamic content in them.

Nigel