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<p>Mailchimp is the leading email marketing service that will allow you to send out mass emails to all your customers via your WooCommerce store.</p>
<p>The creation of WooCommerce Mailchimp Plugin by Dreamfox Media, is considered one of the best plugins for connecting your Mailchimp groups to your WooCommerce categories. You will even be able to connect your Mailchimp group to any of your individual products. This great plugin will help you to stop sending floral discounts to people who ordered kitchen appliances.</p>
<p>No one enjoys spending hundreds of dollars on a great product that is for your kitchen and then constantly getting emails about having huge discounts of various jewelry items. The WooCommerce Mailchimp Plugin will let you to send the right advertisements to the right people.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h4>WooCommerce Subscribe Selection</h4>
<ul>
<li>Subscribe customers to MailChimp with customer confirmation</li>
<li>Subscribe customers to MailChimp without customer confirmation <a href="http://www.dreamfoxmedia.com/shop/woocommerce-categories-to-mailchimp-groups-plugin-premium/#utm_source=wp-plugin_dir&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">(Premium Version)</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Works with MailChimp Interest Groups</h4>
<ul>
<li>Set interest groups by WooCommerce Category</li>
<li>Set interest groups by individual products <a href="http://www.dreamfoxmedia.com/shop/woocommerce-categories-to-mailchimp-groups-plugin-premium/#utm_source=wp-plugin_dir&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">(Premium Version)</a> </li>
</ul>
<h4>Opt-In Settings</h4>
<ul>
<li>MailChimp double opt-in support (control whether a double opt-in email is sent to the customer)</li>
<li>Disable double opt-in <a href="http://www.dreamfoxmedia.com/shop/woocommerce-categories-to-mailchimp-groups-plugin-premium/#utm_source=wp-plugin_dir&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">(Premium Version)</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Translation Support</h4>
<ul>
<li>i18n ready with included woocommerce-mailchimp-plugin.pot file</li>
<li>WPML support via wpml-config.xml<br />
<strong>Included Translations:</strong></li>
<li>English (default)</li>
<li>No other translations yet.<br />
Thanks in advance for your help on any translation efforts!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Multisite</h4>
<ul>
<li>All features should work for each blog in multisite installations.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium Version</h4>
<p>This version is limited in features.<br />
For a small fee you can get the premium version with no limitation at: <a href="http://www.dreamfoxmedia.com/shop/woocommerce-categories-to-mailchimp-groups-plugin-premium/#utm_source=wp-plugin_dir&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">www.dreamfoxmedia.com</a>.</p>
<h4>other WooCommerce plugins from Dreamfox Media:</h4>
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce Shipping Gateway per Product:  <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-shipping-gateway-per-product/" rel="ugc">Information</a> – <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-shipping-gateway-per-product/" rel="ugc">Free version</a> – <a href="http://www.dreamfoxmedia.com/shop/woocommerce-shipping-gateway-per-product-premium?utm_source=free_readmefile&utm_medium=other_plugins&utm_campaign=wcsgpp" rel="nofollow ugc">PREMIUM Version</a></li>
<li>WooCommerce Payment Gateway per product:  <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-product-payments/" rel="ugc">Information</a> – <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-product-payments/" rel="ugc">Free version</a> – <a href="http://www.dreamfoxmedia.com/shop/woocommerce-payment-gateway-per-product-premium?utm_source=free_readmefile&utm_medium=other_plugins&utm_campaign=wcsgpp" rel="nofollow ugc">PREMIUM Version</a></li>
<li>WooCommerce Delivery date: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-delivery-date/" rel="ugc">Information</a> – <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-delivery-date" rel="ugc">Free version</a> – <a href="http://www.dreamfoxmedia.com/shop/plugins/woocommerce-delivery-date-premium?utm_source=free_readmefile&utm_medium=other_plugins&utm_campaign=wcsgpp" rel="nofollow ugc">PREMIUM Version</a></li>
<li>WooCommerce MailChimp Plugin: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-mailchimp-plugin/" rel="ugc">Information</a> – <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-mailchimp-plugin" rel="ugc">Free version</a> – <a href="http://www.dreamfoxmedia.com/shop/woocommerce-categories-to-mailchimp-groups-plugin-premium?utm_source=free_readmefile&utm_medium=other_plugins&utm_campaign=wcsgpp" rel="nofollow ugc">PREMIUM Version</a> </li>
</ul>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
<p>Feedback is welcome!<br />
If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please use our contactform at <a href="http://www.dreamfoxmedia.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Dreamfox Media</a>.</p>
<h4>Twitter</h4>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/dreamfoxmedia" rel="nofollow ugc">Follow @dreamfoxmedia on Twitter</a> for updates on this and other plugins.</p>
<h4>Facebook</h4>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dreamfoxmedia" rel="nofollow ugc">Follow Dreamfox Media on Facebook</a> for updates on this and other plugins.</p>
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Woocommerce categories Mailchimp groups

Mailchimp is the leading email marketing service that will allow you to send out mass emails to all your customers via your WooCommerce store.

Robin W

<p>An add-on to the bbPress forum plugin – creates private forum groups</p>
<p>This Plugin creates unlimited private forum groups.</p>
<p>Forums are then allocated to one or more groups, and users allocated to one or more groups.</p>
<p>What this achieves<br />
unlimited private groups<br />
Each user is set to a group or groups, and each forum can have any or all the groups associated with it<br />
Any number of public forums combined with any number of group forums.  The group forums can be individually set to public or private.<br />
Forum title and description (but not topics or replies) can be set to be visible to non-group users, allowing people to see that a forum exists but not access it<br />
Separate pages can be set to allow redirection of non group users for sign-up or information<br />
Topic Permissions<br />
Topic Permissions is designed for sites where users need to have different permissions to different forums.<br />
For instance the ability for users to contribute to one forum whilst only being able to view another, or only start topics in one forum, or only reply to topics in another.</p>
<p>Example</p>
<p>So if<br />
User a belongs to group 1<br />
User b belongs to group 2<br />
User c belongs to group 3</p>
<p>and<br />
Forum x is set to allow group 2<br />
Forum y is set to allow group 2 and group 3<br />
Forum z is set to allow group 1 and group 3</p>
<p>Then<br />
User a can access only forum z<br />
User b can access forum x and forum y<br />
User c can access forum y and forum z</p>
<p>Restrictions/warnings</p>
<p>The widgets (bbpress) forums list, (bbpress) recent replies, and (bbpress) recent topics SHOULD NOT BE USED, as they will show topics headings and author names for all forums.  Replacement widgets called (private groups) forums list, (private groups) recent replies, and (private groups) recent topics are available instead</p>
<p>Works with bbpress 2.5.3 or higher</p>


Private groups

After wasting hours trying to get Skyverge's WooCommerce Memberships to do what I needed (no practical way to protect topics), I tried this and had it doing everything I needed in under 15 minutes.

Setup a group, manually assigned users to that group.
Set the forum to private and assigned that that group to it.
Viola, everything worked exactly as I wanted.

Public doesn't even see the forum exists. Group members can when logged in.  Non-members can't go directly to to topic URL and bypass the protection.

Only suggestions would be:
1. cleanup the settings pages and instructions, they're a bit overly complicated and hard to follow. 
2. some way to trigger group membership programmatically based on a WooCommerce purchase (I know, to specific and I'll probably code it myself for what I need).

Thanks again for an awesome bbp plugin!

Easy setup and protected forums exactly as I needed

For bbPress - Creates private forum groups

Woocommerce categories Mailchimp groups vs Private groups