MC4WP: Mailchimp Activity

This plugin shows your Mailchimp lists activity, right in your WordPress dashboard.

Mailchimp lists activity

Once activated, it will show a new dashboard widget containing a bar-graph or line-graph (screenshots) showing day-to-day changes to your Mailchimp lists. You can choose to view relative activity (daily subscribes vs. unsubscribes) or a line graph visualizing your total list sizes.

Requirements

This plugin has the following requirements.

• The Mailchimp for WordPress plugin (3.0 or higher).
• PHP 5.3 or higher.

To get started with the plugin, please have a look at the installation guide.

Mailchimp Activity

Since this plugin depends on the Mailchimp for WordPress plugin, you will need to install that first.

Also, please make sure that your webserver is running PHP 5.3 or higher.

Installing the plugin

1. In your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins > New Plugin, search for Mailchimp Activity and click “Install now“
2. Alternatively, download the plugin files manually and upload the contents of mailchimp-activity.zip to your plugins directory, which usually is /wp-content/plugins/.
3. Activate the plugin
4. Make sure your API key is set.
5. You should now see a new widget on your dashboard. Enjoy!

Which user roles can see the activity widget?

By default, the widget will only be shown to users with manage_options capability (administrators).

This behaviour can be customized using the mc4wp_activity_capability filter.

// Show Mailchimp Activity widget to editor role & up.
add_filter( 'mc4wp_activity_capability', function( $capability ) {
   return 'edit_posts';
});

I’ve activated Mailchimp Activity – but it does nothing

This usually comes down to any (or multiple) of the following reasons.

• No API key is set in Mailchimp for WP > Mailchimp.
• You’re running an older version of Mailchimp for WordPress, version 3.0 or higher is required.
• Your server is running a very outdated version of PHP. Mailchimp Activity requires at least PHP 5.3 or higher.
• If you see the widget but it’s stuck at “loading..”, there should be a JavaScript error in your browser console telling us what exactly went wrong.

1. 

   Showing list activity.

2. 

   Showing total list size.

1.1.0 – Oct 7, 2019

Compatibility with Mailchimp for WordPress version 4.6.

1.0.6 – Sep 11, 2019

Changes

• Change plugin name
• Change MailChimp to Mailchimp in all texts.

1.0.5 – December 9, 2016

Fixes

• Time period would not change. This fix depends on version 4.0.11 of Mailchimp for WordPress.

1.0.4 – August 1, 2016

Improvements

• Compatibility with upcoming Mailchimp for WordPress v4.0 release.

1.0.3 – February 17, 2016

Improvements

• Minor improvements to widget JavaScript.

Additions

• Add “period” option which lets you select time period for graph.

1.0.2 – January 8, 2016

Fixes

Prevent fatal error by checking for Mailchimp for WordPress v3.0 before loading any code.

1.0.1 – January 7, 2016

Improvements

Fail gracefully on servers running a PHP version older than PHP 5.3.

1.0

Initial release.