chimpXpress

chimpXpress is a Mailchimp integration for WordPress. It allows you to create blog posts from existing Mailchimp campaigns and create new campaign drafts from within WordPress by using your blog posts as campaign content.
If you’re having trouble with the plugin visit our support forum – Thank you!

What is Mailchimp?

Mailchimp is an award-winning marketing platform that allows you to send email campaigns to a list of subscribers. It is free for up to 500 contacts, which is why it is the newsletter-service of choice for thousands of small businesses across the globe.

If you are not yet using Mailchimp, creating an account is 100% free and only takes you about 30 seconds.

3rd Party or External Services

The main goal of this plugin is to create a bridge between your WordPress site and Mailchimp. In order to accomplish this the plugin will initiate connections to the Mailchimp Marketing API through encrypted network connections. This is required to send and retrieve data between your site and Mailchimp, such as: templates, recently sent campaigns, name and size of subscriber lists and more.

You can learn more about the Mailchimp Marketing API here.
Also take a look at the Mailchimp Terms and Privacy Statements.

This plugin does not collect any user data of your site’s visitors. However, you can choose to include Google Analytics tracking codes in the Landing Pages you import from Mailchimp to your WordPress site. Doing so will allow Google Analytics to collect all sorts of user data. This is optional and will only be enabled if you enter your Google Analytics Profile ID in the configuration.

What is Google Analytics
You can learn more about Google’s Privacy Policy here.

1.0

• Initial release of the chimpXpress plugin

1.1

• When inserting blog posts into campaign content, the post title is now included.

1.2

• php.js library updated to v3.24
• Bugfix: writing files via ftp failed in some cases

1.3

• FTP credentials are no longer mandatory! If the plugin is able to write files directly users don’t have to enter ftp credentials anymore.
• Import to landing page – added check to prevent unintentional overwriting of existing landing pages.
• Import to landing page – added check to prevent empty page title.
• Landing page archive – creation date now takes timezone offset from WordPress configuration into account.
• Landing page archive – delete function added.
• Compose page – added check to prevent empty campaign name and subject (consisting only of spaces).
• Compose page – encoding campaign name and subject to html entities to avoid multiple escaping.
• Compose page – fixed bug that caused user not being able to go from last step to second last.
• Compose page – fixed bug that appeared in WordPress 3.1.1 and caused creation of multiple campaigns.
• Settings page – error messages showed up even after the reason was corrected.
• Updated German translations.

1.4

• Removed position parameter from add_menu_page to avoid conflicts with CPT (custom post types)

1.5

• Fix to include css and js files only on chimpXpress pages.
• Adjusted css selectors to avoid conflicting with other plugins/widgets.
• Fixed multiple backslashes being added to campaign content (entered in wysiwyg editor).

1.6

• Fixed all compatibility issues with the latest WordPress versions (3.3 and later)
• Bugfix: inserting blog posts didn’t work in newer versions
• Bugfix: fixed issue when editor wasn’t working properly
• Bugfix: fixed several Javascript errors
• Minor updates on the user interface

1.6.1

• Fixed a bug when editing landing pages.

1.6.2

• Fixed layout bug that interferred with WordPress navigation.
• Fixed bug when creating landing pages and file already existed.

1.6.3

• innerxhtml.js library contained a wrong license declaration.

2.0.0

• Refactored plugin to be compatible with WordPress 6 and PHP 8

Installing chimpXpress is very easy. Use the WordPress plugin installer to upload the zip file or simply follow the steps below.

1. Extract the package to obtain the chimpxpress folder
2. Upload the chimpxpress folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
4. Configure the settings according to your needs through the ‘Settings’ > ‘chimpXpress’ menu
5. Start creating campaigns or import content from Mailchimp
6. If you need help please visit our forums at https://chimpXpress.com !