MailerLite

<h4>MailerLite – Signup forms (official) plugin</h4>
<p>The Official MailerLite signup forms plugin makes it easy to grow your newsletter subscriber list from your WordPress blog or website. The plugin automatically integrates your WordPress form with your MailerLite email marketing account.</p>
<p>If you don’t have MailerLite account yet, <a href="https://www.mailerlite.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">you can signup for a FREE trial here</a>.</p>
<p>Once you activate the plugin, you’ll be able to select and add any of the pre-built webforms from your MailerLite account or create a new form from scratch. You can place the form in the sidebar using a widget or use a shortcode to put it wherever you want.</p>
<p>Setup is fast and easy! You just need to enter your MailerLite account API code and you’re all set.</p>
<p>Plugin features include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Easily-to-add webforms from MailerLite to your WordPress blog or website</li>
<li>Option to create new webforms</li>
<li>WordPress 5 new editor support</li>
<li>Save subscribers automatically to your MailerLite account</li>
<li>Place webforms using widget or shortcode</li>
<li>Double opt-in signup</li>
<li>Updated plugin layout</li>
<li>Automate welcome emails from your MailerLite account</li>
</ul>
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MailerLite – Signup forms (official)


	I got errors on activation and errors on trying to create a form, which I reported in the WordPress support forum. No response after over a month.
	The widget quit working, as I also described in the support request. 
	The link for where to get the API key, doesn't go to the place to get an API key. It's apparently trying to do a search of your help system, but the search fails, so basically it's just a link to the help system.
	When designing a form in the plugin:
	The label for the firstname field is "Name". So you have "Name" and "Last Name".
	There's no way to customize the field labels.
	There's no way to specify that we want a checkbox field for the user to select groups.
	There's no way to specify which fields are required vs. optional.
	It asks which groups as the first step before creating the form, when that could just be part of editing the form, so that screen is unnecessary.
	The default form description is "Just simple MailerLite form!". This is a poor default both because it's ungrammatical, and because nobody would want this to appear above their form.
	The default success message is "Thank you for sign up!" which is ungrammatical.
	There's no option for a consent checkbox as required by GDPR.


There's a lot wrong and a lot missing

This is a good plugin to add a for fairly quick and easy. If you are trying to do anything more, you will run out of luck fast. There are no settings or useful code hooks (actions or filters) for customizing redirect to landing page or other useful tricks with forms. 

Good but only for a very basic integration

I remained unable to use this plugin and related service due to errors on both and no one replies to the support questions.

Not recommended at all.

Poorly developed and no support.


The plugin does not work correctly with the new block based checkout. There are some issues regarding this from mora than 3 months with no resolution 😕 


No support for block based checkout

Add newsletter signup forms to your WordPress site. Subscribers will be saved directly to your MailerLite account. Super easy to set up!

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<h3>OFFICIAL PLUGIN FEATURES</h3>
<ul>
<li>Checkout integration</li>
<li>Select between multiple positions</li>
<li>Show/hide checkbox</li>
<li>Enable/disable double opt-in</li>
<li>Product importing</li>
<li>Sales tracking and campaign ROI</li>
<li>Customize checkbox label via settings page</li>
<li>Forward order data to MailerLite</li>
<li>Setup order tracking MailerLite custom fields</li>
<li>Setup order related MailerLite segments</li>
<li>Set up automation triggered by recent purchases</li>
<li>Abandoned cart emails</li>
<li>Subscribe pop-ups</li>
<li>Regular updates and improvements: Check out the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-mailerlite/changelog/" rel="ugc">changelog</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Quickstart</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enter your MailerLite API key</li>
<li>For e-commerce tracking on campaigns generate a <a href="https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-rest-api/" rel="nofollow ugc">consumer key + secret</a> with read rights</li>
<li>Select your default list/group</li>
<li>Enable checkout integration</li>
</ul>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<ul>
<li>Plugin created with the official <a href="https://developers.mailerlite.com/docs" rel="nofollow ugc">MailerLite API</a>.</li>
</ul>


MailerLite – WooCommerce integration

The integration breaks every day.
I wake up and find e-commerce automation deactivated together with an error message.
I reactivate them and the day after they're off again.
I've tried disabling the plugin, changing API keys, disabling Cloudflare, asking to support.
The integration still breaks regularly.
Mailerlite per se is good enough, but I fear I need to switch providers because of the integration with Woocomerce.

Breaks everyday

Settings link:
The settings link on the plugins page and on the notification that shows WordPress to finish setup is wrong, it goes to integrations under WooCommerce (domain.tld/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-settings&tab=integration). The right link must go to the integration itself: domain.tld/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wc-settings&tab=integration&section=mailerlite

API key link:
On first setup under the API key field there is a link to create the API key but the information is outdated, so from there you can't create an API key. Now (on the new Mailerlite) the API keys are created from the integrations tab.

JS alert when validating API key:
For some reason when validating the API key, there is a JS alert for "are you sure to exit this page?". This is a wrong behavior. Maybe delete the validate button and create a simple save button at the bottom.

Difficult to connect/disconnect form MailerLite:
Once you enter your API key, the integration is NOT CONNECTED YET (but you don't know it)... After searching, I've found that I need to click on some messages the plugin shows on some settings fields "MailerLite integration setup not completed yet. Please click here." Those are in grayed text. This is too difficult to understand, maybe having a blue button that says CONNECT solves the issue and a status (feedback) like "connected" or "disconnected". The same goes for disconnect, I need to talk with support for manually disconnection from the backend. This is solved as before, a status and buttons to connect/disconnect.

Duplicating user fields on MailerLite:
When connecting for the first time, this integration creates and duplicates the fields under subscribers. Instead of having the 3 necessary fields, creates 6. I have tested in two websites.

No feedback at all:
We as users and developers need to know what is happening, when data is being sent to MailerLite, for example a new subscriber is sent from the checkout page, an abandoned cart is stored o created in the database, etc. We need feedback.

Abandoned carts not being fired:
There is no feedback for the abandoned carts on the WooCommerce part, we don't even know if the plugin is sending data or not. In my case, I have followed the docs and talked with support but no automations were fired. Would be nice to have a table with the abandoned carts (you already have the information on a database table). Also would be nice to know if the data was sent to MailerLite or not.

CSS conflict with Bootstrap 4 classes:
The checkbox in the checkout is conflicting with Bootstrap, is using the class custom-control-input. Please name your classes with some prefix like ml_.

Checkout must be in two steps (not working with default WooCommerce checkout):
This was told to me by a support agent:

So once people add a product to the cart and go to buy it, they have both name, email, address and payment on the same page. It's called 1-page checkout and sadly, our plugin doesn't work correctly in this setup.
Our plugin can only work correctly in a 2 step checkout method.
So in order to make it work, you would need to change the checkout method so it would be a 2-page checkout:

So, you are developing a plugin for WooCommerce that doesn't work on WooCommerce native? I'm lost here...

Difficult to connect, poor feedback, poor UE & UI, duplicating subs fields

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MailerLite – Signup forms (official) vs MailerLite – WooCommerce integration