Rating: 1 star
After spending time tweaking the form in the less-than-friendly interface, the plugin didn’t work. I went back to the javascript and iframe embeds of the Emma form those work great.
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This plugin would be good if it actually aligned with the Emma’s actual features. Hopefully more development is coming to achieve that.
It needs the ability to create multiple forms on one website which should be all you need to trigger multiple workflows (Emma’s automated email features).
If you have only one list/group, and need only one form, then it’s fine.
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In addition to the other criticisms about the difficulty of using this plugin and its settings interface, the real dealbreaker is that neither it nor Emma’s servers filter spam subscribers.
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I give up trying to make this work. First I struggled to find the API keys, then they didn’t work. When I got them pasted properly, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out where I was supposed to find a Signup ID, and the instructions are not helpful at all. I finally got the right numbers in and now it’s just spinning when I try to add a test subscriber! I give up!!
Back to using Gravity Forms and creating a zap to add subscriber via Zapier.
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Community, just a heads up that after two long, painful years, we have updated the plugin. Sorry for all the issues in the past, but I think you will love the new features. It is also now our commitment to stay on top of the Emma API and WordPress core updates to always provide you with the best integration possible.
Press on and now get more from your email marketing,
John and the Ah So team
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This plugin isn’t much helful. As a previous reviewer said, it’s rather inflexible and I agree fully. I couldn’t even choose what form to display (even though existing in Emma), and I resorted to deactivating it after some css hacking: not worth my time on it.
If a plugin is to be an official ’emma’ plugin I would also expect it to be updated and kept. This was (as of Feb 5, 2015) last updated in july 2013 – clearly lost in limbo by now, so why have it as an official plugin? It’s better removed, and Enmma doesn’t look good endorsing it anyway.
In any case I would expect an official plugin to at least ‘see’ what’s set up in Emma + easily style an own css. Otherwise, what’s the purpose?
Rating: 3 stars
It works, but you get the sense someone decided to ship it at about 90% done.
For me the most frustrating thing was the inflexibility of the markup, or rather the layout that the markup facilitates. I wanted a stripped-down email-field-with-instructive-placeholder-and-submit-button form. No field labels, no “* = required” text, nada. You’re not gonna get it without hacking the plugin. So layout and styling on this plugin is pretty inflexible.
When you do crack open the code, you’ll learn that the fields are all surrounded by LI tags, which… why? Semantically, this makes zero sense.
The quality of the code itself is a little suspect. There are dozens of lines of commented-out code in the plugin, and the comments are fun… things like “class this sh!t out, and pass it into the activation hook” (which they did) and “probably should do some checking before sending this off” (which they did not, yay for unsanitized function inputs!). Another function contains nothing but a comment “buh-bye!” The code history makes clear that this is a refactored release, so it’s pretty amazing to imagine what it looked like before that.
Lastly, the grammar of the user-facing text leaves something to be desired. An error message reading “Member Not Added, Member may have already been added. Please Try Again” is just cringe-worthy, with its run-on sentence and nonsensical rando capitalization.
I’m trying not to hate on this plugin too hard, because it does work, or seems to so far, and it’s doing a lot of stuff. Aaaaaaand it’s free. So there’s that. And I am grateful. However, the generalized lack of attention to detail leaves me with this sense of concern that there’s functional gaps too that I just haven’t seen yet. I feel like I should be in there checking the error-handling, but man, I am not eager to spend any more time than I already have cleaning up third-party plugin code!
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Thanks so much for putting in the work on this plug-in. All of my clients use WordPress, and all of my email marketing clients use emma.
This plug-in will make it even easier for me to sell my dev services in concert with email marketing management services – it just gives me one more reason to convince my clients that going with emma is the only sane choice.
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