handling signup to multiple lists

Hi Mark,

Thanks for hopping in the forum! Currently, the plugin can only be attached to one MailChimp list. But you can use the plugin for the signup to one list, then add another form to your website using MailChimp’s embed code. In the settings for the embed code, it’s best to disable javascript, because this might interfere with the plugin’s javascript. This guide from MailChimp explains grabbing the embed code and changing the settings: https://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-can-i-add-my-signup-form-on-my-website

On your extra points question, can you give a few more details on what you’re trying to do? Are you trying to add these subscribers to wordpress as users? A little more information will help us see if that’s possible.

Thanks!

-mcd

Hi dominic, tnx for the quick reply.

The use case is as follows:
My client has a site from which people can download software. He wants to be able to manage two different mailing lists, one for people that are just interested in the software, and another for people that actually download the software. I havn’t looked too deep into the plugin’s code but I can see that right now for people registering for the mailing list a user is created in wordpress with a subscriber role. It will be nice to be able to give a different role for the downloading user to be able to differentiate between them if the need will arise (for example when a support forum is created later).

I guess I can make my own form and use the API to register with mailchimp and create the user the way I want it. Do you have any idea how hard it will be for an experienced developer to find the relevant pieces of code in the plugin and extend/copy&change them?

Hey Mark!

Thanks for getting back to us. While every person added to a MailChimp list is always a subscriber, it sounds like what you want to do could be accomplished through using either groups or a field indicating the type of subscriber in your list. This would really only be important if you’re using the same list for people of multiple types. If you’re using separate lists, then the lists themselves could be used for that separation.

If you want to take the field/group approach, then using our API to set up your own form would certainly be a great option, and an experienced developer should have a pretty straightforward experience with the help of our API Documentation.

An alternate approach would be using two forms via our Embedded Form code, rather than using the plugin at all, and modifying the code to set a particular field value, as indicated in this guide:
Can I set up my signup form so that I can see where my recipients signed up?: https://eepurl.com/SKbn

The important thing to note is you’d need to mark a user as the type of subscriber you want in a field or group at the time of signup using some sort of code customization unless you want to totally isolate the sets of subscribers by using separate lists, in which case there would be no crossover.

If you have any other questions, please let us know!
Thanks,
Gabe