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MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress

The #1 Mailchimp plugin for WordPress. Allows you to add a multitude of newsletter sign-up methods to your site.

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Current directory snapshot

Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version4.14.1
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 5.3 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update16 Sept 20261mo ago
Active installations1M+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.8 / 5 from 1,497 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress version 4.14.1 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Allowing your visitors to subscribe to your newsletter should be easy. With this plugin, it finally is.

This plugins helps you grow your email list in Mailchimp. You can use it to create good looking and accessible sign-up forms or integrate with any other existing form on your WordPress site, like your contact, comment or checkout form.

Some (but not all) features

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Connect with your Mailchimp account in seconds.

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Sign-up forms which are good looking, user-friendly and mobile optimized. You have complete control over the form fields and can build your forms using native HTML.

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Seamless integration with the following plugins:

  • WordPress Comment Form
  • WordPress Registration Form
  • Contact Form 7
  • WooCommerce
  • Gravity Forms
  • Ninja Forms 3
  • WPForms
  • BuddyPress
  • MemberPress
  • Events Manager
  • Easy Digital Downloads
  • Give
  • UltimateMember
  • HTML Forms
  • AffiliateWP

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Is the plugin you want to integrate with not listed above? You can probably still use our custom integration feature. Alternatively, the plugin comes with a PHP API to programmatically add a new subscriber to Mailchimp.

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Mailchimp for WordPress Premium: Send your WooCommerce orders to Mailchimp so you can see exactly what each subscriber purchased and how much revenue your email campaigns are generating.

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A multitude of available add-on plugins and integrations:

  • Mailchimp for WordPress Premium
  • Mailchimp Top Bar
  • Boxzilla Pop-ups

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Well documented through our knowledge base.

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Developer friendly. For some inspiration, check out our repository of example code snippets.

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What is Mailchimp?

Mailchimp is a newsletter service that allows you to send out email campaigns to a list of email subscribers. It is free for lists with up to 500 email subscribers, 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.

Support

If you need some help in setting up the plugin, you have various options:

  • Search through our knowledge base.
  • Open a topic in the WordPress.org plugin support forums
  • If you’re a premium user, send an email to the email address listed inside the plugin.

Translations

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Development

This plugin is being developed on GitHub. If you want to collaborate, please look at ibericode/mailchimp-for-wordpress.

Customizing the plugin

The plugin provides various filter and action hooks that allow you to modify or extend the default behavior. We’re also maintaining a collection of sample code snippets.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • email
  • form
  • mailchimp
  • newsletter
  • subscribe
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.3 · PHP 7.4
Update activity16 Sept 20261mo ago

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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex

Recent tracked changes

WordPress compatibility7.0.47.1
Version4.14.04.14.1
WordPress compatibility7.17.0.4
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