Description
This plugin shows your MailChimp lists activity, right in your WordPress dashboard.
MailChimp lists activity
Once activated, it will show a new dashboard widget containing a bar-graph or line-graph (screenshots) showing day-to-day changes to your MailChimp lists. You can choose to view relative activity (daily subscribes vs. unsubscribes) or a line graph visualizing your total list sizes.
Requirements
This plugin has the following requirements.
- The MailChimp for WordPress plugin (3.0 or higher).
- PHP 5.3 or higher.
To get started with the plugin, please have a look at the installation guide.
Screenshots
Installation
MailChimp Activity
Since this plugin depends on the MailChimp for WordPress plugin, you will need to install that first.
Also, please make sure that your webserver is running PHP 5.3 or higher.
Installing the plugin
- In your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins > New Plugin, search for MailChimp Activity and click “Install now“
- Alternatively, download the plugin files manually and upload the contents of
mailchimp-activity.zip
to your plugins directory, which usually is/wp-content/plugins/
. - Activate the plugin
- Make sure your API key is set.
- You should now see a new widget on your dashboard. Enjoy!
FAQ
- Which user roles can see the activity widget?
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By default, the widget will only be shown to users with
manage_options
capability (administrators).This behaviour can be customized using the
mc4wp_activity_capability
filter.// Show MailChimp Activity widget to editor role & up. add_filter( 'mc4wp_activity_capability', function( $capability ) { return 'edit_posts'; });
- I’ve activated MailChimp Activity – but it does nothing
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This usually comes down to any (or multiple) of the following reasons.
- No API key is set in MailChimp for WP > MailChimp.
- You’re running an older version of MailChimp for WordPress, version 3.0 or higher is required.
- Your server is running a very outdated version of PHP. MailChimp Activity requires at least PHP 5.3 or higher.
- If you see the widget but it’s stuck at “loading..”, there should be a JavaScript error in your browser console telling us what exactly went wrong.
Reviews
Fail
MC for WP has upgraded to ver4 while this plugin has not updated.
It now shows just 1 week and not always accurately.
The Support requests have not been addressed for months so it looks like this is toast.
Invaluable plugin!
I’m surprised it’s not more popular on WordPress, I’d say it’s more important even than my Google Analytics plugin.
An easy and simple way to see my daily mailing growth (which I honestly can’t even find in the official mailchimp website, I only see growth by month but not by day).
Keep up the good work Dan!
Featured on iThemes Training Plugin Roundup, March 2016
Very handy executive summary of your Mailchimp list anayltics right in the dashboard. Thanks!
Simple, useful
Short, sweet and to the point.
Works Great
If I didn’t need to stop by my MailChimp account regularly and liked to check out my WordPress dashboard, I’d love this simple plugin.
A quick glance at the graphs shows me both my new subscription numbers and unsubscribes. Another quick click and I can see how much my list has grown over the past three months.
Very nice. 🙂
A good start
It is a nice tool, now I don’t have to log into WordPress to monitor traffic. One thing that’s weird is on the graph, the vertical axis is defined by decimals, in increments of 0.2 subscribers. I don’t know how one could have 0.2 subsribers, 30.6 or 3.4 subscribers sign up on a particular day! Shouldn’t those be integer values?
Contributors & Developers
“MailChimp Activity” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.5 – December 9, 2016
Fixes
- Time period would not change. This fix depends on version 4.0.11 of MailChimp for WordPress.
1.0.4 – August 1, 2016
Improvements
- Compatibility with upcoming MailChimp for WordPress v4.0 release.
1.0.3 – February 17, 2016
Improvements
- Minor improvements to widget JavaScript.
Additions
- Add “period” option which lets you select time period for graph.
1.0.2 – January 8, 2016
Fixes
Prevent fatal error by checking for MailChimp for WordPress v3.0 before loading any code.
1.0.1 – January 7, 2016
Improvements
Fail gracefully on servers running a PHP version older than PHP 5.3.
1.0
Initial release.