Mad Mimi, Meet WordPress
Mad Mimi email marketing has the simplest, most elegant email designer I have ever seen. It’s so easy, you’ll freak — I know I did….So I created the Mad Mimi plugin for WordPress. The plugin makes it simple to add a signup list to your content or sidebar using a sidebar widget or the integrated [madmimi] shortcode.
Download the plugin from WordPress.org
Plugin Features:
- Select which forms users subscribe to
- Unlimited signup forms for any number of email lists
- Choose to include a number of fields in the form, including:
- Name
- Phone
- Company
- Title
- Address
- City
- State
- ZIP
- Country
- Integrates with the Mad Mimi API
- Choose a custom redirect page on successful form submission
The Mad Mimi for WordPress Plugin requires a Mad Mimi account
What’s coming next?
- Customize the form’s design
- Ajax form submission & validation
Leave feedback, feature requests, or bugs below!
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It’s here http://cementsales.ru
I will be adding a check to prevent this, but let me confirm: have you not selected a list for emails to be added to?
Should be fixed with Version 1.1. Try upgrading the Mad Mimi plugin and let me know!
Zack, thanks for creating Mad Mimi.
I’m in the process of putting several websites up on WordPress, and this will help me when I start building e-mail lists.
I have installed this 3-4 times now and every time it says it can’t activate it because it triggers a fatal error. I’m running the newest version of WordPress. Any ideas?
Hi Katy, do you have any lists configured in Mad Mimi?
Hi Zack!
Yes, one small one.
But I don’t even get to the point where I can put in my Mad Mimi user info – WordPress doesn’t let me activate the plugin.
Version 1.1 of the plugin (released yesterday) should fix the implode() issue. Let me know if it doesn’t.
I was using version 1.10 and the following error occured
Stock Shastra: the Art & Science of Stock InvestingActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Name can’t be blan. I had activated only the Name and Email field for subscription.
Later i upgraded to version 1.12 only to find that the widget does not appear in the Available Widgets or Inactive Widgets. Any solution.
I am using wordpress 2.9.2
Try deleting and re-installing 1.2 – there were a few minutes there where the wrong file was uploaded in the package. Let me know if that works.
I have added your plug-in to my WordPress site, created my mad-mini account but cannot fathom how to select/edit a form and how to activate it on my blog.
If i click on “Configuring your forms” it just takes me to the widget page – but there is nothing new on it for the forms!
Richard
There should be a Mad Mimi widget that you can drag and drop to your sidebar…
Great plugin, but there is no widget when clicking the “Configuring your forms” link. I did try to use the shortcode in the sidebar “sometimes works” but was not able to get it working.
This is for WP 2.9.2
@Steven and @Richard - My apologies for the problems with the plugin; they should be fixed now with Version 1.2.1. It was caused by having renamed a plugin file.
It’s fixed and working beautifully now
Hi there,
Does this plugin have the option to add a new user to madmimi list whenever a new user register to the blog (register as a wordpress user)? If not, is it in your plans? If not, would you be open to add this to the plugin if I develop?
cheers
Leo,,
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Hi Christina,
I have updated the plugin. If you update and are still receiving this error, it’s likely because your server doesn’t have curl enabled. Check out my reply to Gert below for info.
I installed the plug-in, but when I activate it and go to settings, I get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in C:\wamp\www\wp-content\plugins\mad-mimi\mad-mimi.php on line 278
As you can see I’m testing it locally on my machine, so I’m not sure if this causes the error.
This is likely because your local server doesn’t have
curlenabled. I have added a check to the plugin to make sure thatcurl_initis available; the plugin won’t work without it.Most web hosts do have it enabled by default.
Has anyone had success modifying the mad mimi plugin for wpmu 2.9.2?
Default installation initial setting of parameters (i.e. Username & API Key) fails. The HTML code in mad-mimi.php directs the form to options.php. That file does not exist.
Telling it to use options-general.php and options-general.php?pag=mad-mimi doesn’t work either.
Does any one else have thoughts on how to get it working?
…nevermind. Post http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Plugin_Compatibility revealed the following changes to mad-mimi.php:
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< <?php wp_nonce_field(‘update-options’); ?>
—
> <?php settings_fields(‘mad_mimi_page’); ?>
> <?php // wp_nonce_field(‘update-options’); ?>
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> function mad_mimi_whitelist($options)
> $added = array(‘mad_mimi_page’ => array( ‘mad_mimi_username’,
> ‘mad_mimi_api’)
> );
> $options = add_option_whitelist( $added, $options );
> return $options;
>
> add_filter(‘whitelist_options’, ‘mad_mimi_whitelist’);
…allegedly these should be compatible with the latest version of wordpress too.
Hi Zack
Instead of using a Subscribe form, I want visitors to become registered “members” of my site. I then want these users to be added to a “website members” email list in Mad Mimi.
Is this possible with your plugin?
Cheers
Turgs
@Turgs: It’s planned in a future release to have a checkbox added to the WP Register form, as well as the comment form. Until that release, it’ll have to be custom-coded, but possible.
Hi Zack,
I just got email from Mad Mimi about this plugin and downloaded it to try it out. When it tries to activate I get this message.
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
I’m running WordPress 2.9.2.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks,
Paula Kawal
@Paula Kawal: The plugin requires your server has PHP 5. Please contact your hosting provider and see if you are running PHP 5.
If that doesn’t work, it could be a plugin conflict. If that’s the case, please let me know what plugins you are running.
Hi Zack,
I have php version 4.4.9 through my hosting provider. So what can I do?
Thanks,
Paula
@Paula Kawal: Ask your hosting provider to upgrade your account to PHP 5. Generally, hosts are able to do that easily and at no charge. Otherwise, I’d recommend switching hosts, because if they don’t offer PHP 5, imagine what else you’re not getting!
Hi Zack,
I found a button that let me upgrade it myself from the c panel of my account =)
All better now!
Thanks,
Paula
Thanks, excellent plugin. Is there a way today, to allow a file to get downloaded when a user hits “submit”
We offer a 30 day trial of our software and would like to kickstart the auto downloaded if possible.
@Manish: You can add this to check to your
functions.phpfile to check whether the form has been submitted:function check_madmimi_submit() { if(isset($_POST['signup']['email'])) { // The form has been submitted if(isset($_POST['signuperror'])) { // There is an error with the form return false; } // No error, so we're good. // You can do the download call here. return true; } } // The madmimi_process_submissions() is set to run first, // so we'll run this second to make sure the $_POST has a chance to // be set. add_action('init', 'check_madmimi_submit',2);Then you’d have to initiate the download where the code says
do the download call here.I may add an action upon successful submission in a future version. Thanks for asking!
Zack,
thanks so much. I was able to figure out a solution. I entered in a complete URL for the optional subscription page.
Then on that page I added the following:
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”Refresh” CONTENT=”1;URL=http://full_name_of_progam.exe”>
and it works like a charm. Great plugin.
Zack,
How can I stylize the form? I want to have name and email on the same line? I’m assuming I edit mad-mimi.php?
Hi,
Is there a way to translate the plugin and after that still be able to update?
Robert
Hiya Zack,
I just installed the plugin (v 1.3) on WordPres 2.9.2. Unfortunately I’m getting the following error: “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”
Any ideas how to fix this?
@Alex G: Does it say what line the error occurs on? Please check your server’s error logs if it doesn’t.
Hey Guys,
I’m having a plugin issue. So I downloaded it, activated it, dragged it into the sidebar of my site. (FYI I have a custom theme purchased from Themeforest)
And the field boxes don’t show. For example, I have Name, Email, and City, however there’s no field box where people can type that in. Any ideas what may be going on?
I’m in WP3, PHP5, everything most up-to-date.
Have you tried it with another theme? If it works, it’s likely because the CSS of the theme you’re using is hiding those elements.
I’m getting the fatal error issue as well, any fix for this?
Nice and good design. It gets right to the point. The structure is impressive. Good work!
Zack,
After installing the plugin my website became so slow people were writing to complain that they could not access it. I went one by one deactivating plugins and this one was the culprit. Don’t know why and I would love for it to work for me… but it doesn’t. Let me know if there’s a solution to this.
Thanks!
This is strange; there’s no reason why it should slow down the site at all.
Could you re-activate it and let me know when you do so I can see what might be going on?
Hi Kevin,
Thanks to your feedback, I was able to identify the issue.
I am releasing version 1.3.1 right now, and it should be available in under an hour on WordPress.org or through your site’s plugins page.
Thanks!
Hey Zack,
I’m finally getting around to installing this awesome plug-in. Any idea why the elements for the plugin are so scattered on this page:
http://www.mprofit.in/test-for-download-page/
It’s all because of your stylesheet. An example :
#maincol-inside .content form label spanmakes the required asterisk (*) 180px wide. Other things likedisplay:blockand margins make the whole thing fall apartLook a great plugin! Im wondering, i see throughout the comments and in the description that the ability to style is coming soon. Are you referring to styling through the admin panel? I mean, i could make it look however i choose by using CSS, right? Thanks for any info.
@Janine Gregor: You will need to achieve this using CSS; the form on your site has an id of
#mad_mimi_form3, so you can center text by using#mad_mimi_form3 { text-align:center;}, for example. Further styling options are coming in a future version.