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In this video you'll go back to your live development site and use a different free plug in to set up

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a MailChimp sign up form.

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From there you'll expand the functionality to include synchronizing WordPress users with your MailChimp

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list.

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This system will come in handy for any sites you create which allow registration.

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It could be a membership site with protected content or an e-commerce store like the one we'll be setting

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up in the next chapter.

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By the end of this lesson you'll have the knowledge to set up and manage marketing lists customer lists

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and user registration through Wordpress and connected to the power of MailChimp for sending bulk email

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back at your Wordpress dashboard.

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Live site and your Wordpress live site from two videos ago.

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I'm going to present you with a challenge right away.

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Now this is the one that I had created I called it MailChimp test site.

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As you recall it's at my web site Greg Davis dot com but it's a separate WordPress installation under

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a subdirectory called MailChimp.

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I'm also logged into the dashboard in the background and your challenge is to install a new plug in

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which I am going to specify and install it activate it and configure it with your MailChimp list.

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Now here is the list that I've been working on.

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And you could see it's called Gray Davis notifications.

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I did go through and erase all of the subscribers that were just fake subscribers within my list.

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But make sure you have your MailChimp account open and open to your list that you're managing inside

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your Web site.

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If you go back to the Wordpress Web site that we created before this mailing list sign up form is the

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one that we created in the instructions from two videos ago.

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If you notice scroll a little bit further down.

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And I have a second sign up form for that same list.

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Now I set up this sign up form with a different free prologue in from the repository that I've used

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and tested and I really think it's excellent.

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Let's go to WordPress dot org.

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And under plug ins you can do this within your Wordpress dashboard as well.

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But I wanted to show you the name of the plugin.

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It's called MailChimp for wordpress.

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And at this time it's got more than 700000 active users.

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It's by the plug in developer Iberia code.

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And here's what it looks like inside the Wordpress repository.

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Your challenge is to log into your live WordPress test site go to plug ins and click add new find that

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plug in and install it and then use its functionality to connect your MailChimp account to your WordPress

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website and create another Sign-Up form for that MailChimp list using the API code similar to the way

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we did before but this time do it all yourself.

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Pause the video now and give it a go.

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I'm sure that went smoothly for you as if you've noticed.

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You might have seen your selection where you can choose to have the plug in use the styles that are

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in your existing theme.

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You could see that this has the nice blue rollover.

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The fonts are the same inside of the form as inside of this 2016 theme.

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Unlike the MailChimp text widget when we used the specific code for MailChimp it styled itself and so

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I'll just go through my steps very quickly.

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Inside the Wordpress dashboard go to plug ins and I can click Add new and I'll look through these plugins

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but I'll just do a search for MailChimp.

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Just quickly show you what it would look like within the Wordpress dashboard and you probably found

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this was pretty easy.

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I may have searched for it directly by name but here it is MailChimp for Wordpress by your code and

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it's already installed as you can see.

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So if I go under their settings panel here I can click MailChimp and as I look my API code or API key

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is connected already.

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Just to review you would have had to go back into your MailChimp account.

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Maybe you had to look around a little bit but if you go under your name and click account and you can

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look under extras and you'll find where it says API keys.

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There you can copy the API key and then paste it into the MailChimp API settings under the MailChimp

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for Wordpress plugin settings and then you can see which MailChimp lists are within the account and

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then you can go down here and click forms now in forms.

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You may have spent a little bit of time figuring out how to make your form say first name and email

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address.

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I had to place my cursor right here in fact this stuff was not here.

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What I did was I hit enter and I put my cursor right there and then I click here to add the first name

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field.

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It may as well put first name in the placeholder and it's the label called first name and yes I want

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it required.

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And sure I'll wrap it in the paragraph tags just like these other forms are inside the form and there

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was it just placed it in there for me and I hit the save changes down here at the bottom.

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I also just took a look at the messages that users will see once they hit the subscribe button and the

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settings right here.

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I wanted to go in here and I need to choose which list I want these users to be subscribed to and do

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I want to use the double opt in which is.

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Yes very recommended and I could redirect them to a special thank you page although I just left that

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empty to leave it as the MailChimp default.

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Then I hit save changes right here and really those were all the changes I needed make inside of the

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plugin settings.

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Then I went under.

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and I just used the MailChimp sign up form widget that is provided by the plug and I brought it over

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here and I just made a title for it and clicked Save.

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And as I go up here and you look at the Web site you can see that it used those words for the title

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and then it's styled nicely.

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You know it's got me.

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I actually had put your first name as the placeholder text and then right here and I did test this form

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I filled out to an e-mail address and my name clicked sign up and I had gotten my verification and was

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opted into the list.

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Pretty easy right.

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And really nothing new.

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Just using a different plug in at this time.

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Let's take a look at how we might register users as subscribers to this Web site.

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Even though we don't have a membership or an e-commerce plug in activated yet we can still allow new

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users to register an account on our WordPress site.

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Now they won't be administrators but we can just give them the default roll of subscriber and then they'll

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have a profile page where they can manage their e-mail address and their first and last name and their

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site password.

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And so back in the Wordpress dashboard one thing we can do under settings and under general is look

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at one of our membership settings and we've got two fields here we need to choose let's just click the

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box that says anyone can register and for new users their default role will just be subscriber.

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What this will do is it will allow a register button and the registration fields on the log in form

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to be activated.

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So anyone can click register and find and register for the Web site.

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So I'll just leave that box checked and click save changes.

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Now how can I find the registration page fact let's just experiment here if I log out.

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We can see that the log in form page comes up and it's at you know whatever you are is slash W.P. dash

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log in Dot ph P as the log in page.

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And if you see now that I've checked that users can register in addition to the last year password link.

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I also have a register link here and if you look at when I roll over at the bottom left it just puts

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a little piece on the end of the URL that has action equals register.

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So if I click that I can register a new user.

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So I'm going is going to choose a random username and an e-mail address.

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Now you can't duplicate the e-mail address that you already have on your own web site.

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And so if you have a separate e-mail address use that one or create a new e-mail address at gmail or

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something like that that you can use for testing this.

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So I'm just going to use my testing e-mail address that I know I have and I'll click the register button.

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Now it says registration complete Please check your e-mail.

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Now there might be more complex registration systems for customers of an e-commerce site like we're

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going to explore in the next chapter or for a membership site that has protected content but the registration

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system that comes with Wordpress is pretty simple and it works well.

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Get you verify that the person is a real person by having them check their email and then confirming

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and choosing their password so over in my email program I receive this email just a simple welcome and

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click this first URL that it gives me to set my password.

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So it opens up a page where it's going to give me a nice strong password or I can type in a simple one.

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I want to for now I'll just hit Control C and just open Notepad real quick and preserve that so I can

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remember the password of the new user and I can click reset password and there we go.

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Then it gives you a nice log in button.

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Now again here's the log in page.

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So if I use the log in and password that I was just given I log in as a new user.

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You can see that I don't have all of the Wordpress administration links and menu items on the left hand

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side.

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I just have a profile page.

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I can change things like my password and my profile information.

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And I also have access to a dashboard page which really doesn't give me much just some of the standard

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But I don't have any of the controls over the site.

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I'm basically just a subscriber and a membership site or an e-commerce site.

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We'll give those users special permissions for certain places like check out or for protected content

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on the membership site.

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So one of the great things you can do with this plug in or with another MailChimp integration plug in

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that I use quite extensively from PMU dev dot org is that when somebody registers as a user on your

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wordpress site you can actually let them join your MailChimp list and get double opted into the email

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marketing list without having them take any extra steps or fill in an extra form at all.

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And so it's very convenient.

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It works as well for this MailChimp for Wordpress plugin and we'll use this plug in to set up that user

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synchronization inside of my dashboard or log back in as the administrator and I go over here and look

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at users all users and you can see that I have that new user person right here didn't have a name that

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I put in.

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But there's the e-mail address and their role is a subscriber not an administrator.

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Now if I go under MailChimp for WP and I look at integrations one of the things that it offers as a

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part of the plug in is a registration form and a comment form integration.

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So you could ask them if they'd like to join the MailChimp list or join to get the newsletter.

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Anytime somebody either fills out the registration form or a comment form.

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And so if we activate the registration form integration it'll bring up a settings page for that and

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I need to click yes to enable all these selections here.

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And I do want to ask them if they want to subscribe using a checkbox and so I click no here and then

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I can go ahead and put the different integrations here.

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I want to choose that specific list.

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Sign me up for the newsletter is fine for now we're just testing this integration and this user synchronization

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and then let's have the checkbox pre-selected let's just leave the regular default settings here.

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Yes I want them to be double opted in.

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And I don't want need to do anything for existing subscribers at this point.

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So if I just hit save changes now as I have this MailChimp settings integrated because I have set up

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that integration for the registration form I can now go ahead and sign up a new user and they will join

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my MailChimp list right now if I go to lists in my MailChimp account and I'll go down and choose the

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list that I want to manage.

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You can see that I've got zero subscribers as I showed before.

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So what I do now is log out and test that integration really quick.

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So if I want to register a new user if you need to you can log in and look at the users and delete the

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new user that you had entered before in order to test this registration system.

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But you can see this register page now slightly different it's got a checkbox which says Sign me up

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for the newsletter and then registration confirmation will be emailed to you.

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And of course that will be coming from MailChimp.

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So great if I just create another user you can delete that old user if you're going to reuse this email

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but I'll use my other e-mail that I have Cobbe testing to get Greg Davis and let's register this user

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great registration complete Please check your email.

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If I go to my email and let's see if I look under my e-mail address and click get messages.

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I should have two different e-mails now.

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So I have my regular e-mail that came in from WordPress but I also have my e-mail confirmation opt in.

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They came from MailChimp.

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So if I just click yes subscribe me to this list I'll go to that default.

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Thank you page.

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Excellent that's what we tested a couple of videos ago.

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And if I go back to my MailChimp account now if I refresh the page you can see it's going to add that

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user in and that person is confirmed.

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There's the e-mail address testing to Greg Davis dot com.

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Now if I go back to the Wordpress dashboard and I log in as an administrator

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let's just take a look at our users here users.

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All users.

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Now I've got three users.

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So the great test is the one that I that I just made and now it did make a user even though I didn't

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verify and get my passwords so this user won't be able to log in until they go ahead and get their password.

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But that new user is or is also a user on the account.

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But if you look back in MailChimp they're not actually on the mailing list because we just activated

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the user synchronization for the registration form just now.

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Not only just MailChimp for Wordpress allow you to register users on your MailChimp list through registering

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in wordpress but it can also synchronize a little more powerfully through some synchronizations and

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add on plugins that they offer for free as well.

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The MailChimp user sync plug in is one you can get for free from the repository.

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And once it's installed gives you the option within the settings of MailChimp for Wordpress to synchronize

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via a synchronized button.

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If you have a list of previous users that aren't already on a MailChimp list you can add them automatically

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through your wordpress site and you can have back and forth users synchronization so that when people

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make changes to their profile in MailChimp for example or unsubscribe they will be unsubscribed or removed

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from the Wordpress installation as well.

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In this lesson you used a free plug in to integrate user accounts in wordpress with a MailChimp email

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list.

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I'm sure you can see the power of setting it up like this for sites that allow users to register.

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It allows you to properly send e-mail to a large group and build that email list through your Wordpress

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Web site.

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Speaking of user accounts in wordpress in the next chapter we'll be setting up an e-commerce Web store

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which will be allowing registration and tracking of customers through WordPress.

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We'll be bringing concepts from several past chapters in this course to light through building our store.

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See there