Guide to using the Mailchimp-as-a-Registration plugin for Wordpress

by Patrick Ingle

Overview

Explains in detail how to reduce spammers on your wordpress blog through the use of the free plugin Mailchimp-as-a-Registration available on wordpress.org. Integrate mailchimp email campaign service with your wordpress blog new user registration form. When you allow anyone to register on your blog, their information is save to a mailchimp list and campaign automatically. This makes it easy to create your own mailing list to solicit your products and services through a recognize email marketer.

Additionally, mailchimp maintains a list of spammer emails and will automatically detect if the registered user is a spammer.

An added feature, includes a jquery popup modal dialog to show your custom terms of use with an Accept and Decline button. If the Accept button is not pressed, then the Register button remains disabled, thus preventing unwanted registered users. No need for capcha here as the user must click a popup and accept button.

Contents at a glance
Prologue
Your Mailchimp Account
Creating an account
Creating a List
Obtaining the API key
Creating a Campaign
Configuring the Plugin
Creating the Terms
Enable User Registration
Turn Off the Plugin
How this Plugin stops Spammers
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Product Details

BN ID:	2940158150890
Publisher:	Patrick Ingle
Publication date:	10/30/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	783 KB

About the Author

Patrick is an independent software vendor, with a love-affair for wordpress development (plugins, themes and integrations)