MailChimp for WordPress

• November 25, 2015 =

Fixes

• Redirect on success not working.
• Forms overview page redirected to main WP Admin page (edge case).
• Safari was always showing the leave-page confirmation dialog.

Improvements

• Add form-specific classes to preview form element. This allows the Styles Builder to work with the Form Preview.
• Form events are now triggered after the page has finished loading, so all scripts are loaded & ready to use.
• Reset background-color in Form Themes stylesheets.

• November 2, 2015 =

Fixes

• Incorrect number of parameters for error_log statement in integrations class.

Improvements

• Usage tracking is now scheduled once a week (instead of daily).
• Preparations for the upcoming MailChimp for WordPress version 3.0 release.
• Tested compatibility with WordPress 4.4

• October 22, 2015 =

Fixes

• Honeypot field being autofilled in Chrome, causing a form error.

Improvements

• Updated Portugese translations.

• October 14, 2015 =

Fixes

• Error in Russian translation, causing a broken link on the MailChimp settings page.

Improvements

• Textual improvements to MailChimp settings page.
• Connectivity issues with MailChimp will now always show an error message.
• Renewing MailChimp lists will now also update the output of the {subscriber_count} tag.

• October 9, 2015 =

Fixes

• Fixes JS error when form contains no submit button

Improvements

• Only prefix url fields with http:// if it is filled.
• Updated Spanish & Catalan translations, thanks to Xavier Gimeno Torrent.
• Fix mc4wp_form_before_fields being applied twice.
• Position honeypot field to the right for Right-To-Left sites.
• _mc4wp_lists can now be a comma-separated string of MailChimp list ID's to subscribe to (or an array).
• Minor other defensive coding improvements to prevent clashes with other plugins.

Additions

• Added opt-in usage tracking to help us make the plugin better. No sensitive data is tracked.

• September 25 =

Fixes

• Use of undefined constant in previous update.

• September 25, 2015 =

Fixes

• Honeypot causing horizontal scrollbar on RTL sites.
• List choice fields not showing when using one of the default form themes.

Improvements

• Minor styling improvements for RTL sites.
• MailChimp list fields of type "website" will now become HTML5 url type fields.
• Auto-prefix fields of type url with http

• September 21, 2015 =

Fixes

• Issue with interest groupings not being fetched after updating to version 2.3.11

• September 21, 2015 =

Fixes

• Honeypot field being filled by browser's autocomplete.
• Styling issue for submit buttons in Mobile Safari.
• Empty response from MailChimp API

Improvements

• Do not query MailChimp API for interest groupings if list has none.
• Integration errors are now logged to PHP's error log for easier debugging.

Additions

• You can now use shortcodes in the form content.

• September 7, 2015 =

Fixes

• Showing "not connected" when the plugin was actually connected to MailChimp.
• Issue with address fields when addr1 was not given.
• Comment form checkbox not outputted for some older themes.

Improvements

• Do not flush MailChimp cache on every settings save.
• Add default CSS styles for number fields.
• Placeholders will now work in older version of IE as well.

• August 18, 2015 =

Fixes

• Prevented JS error when outputting forms with no submit button.
• Using 0 as a Redirect URL resulted in a blank page.
• Sign-up checkbox was showing twice in the Easy Digital Downloads checkout when showing registration fields, thanks Daniel Espinoza.
• Default form was not automatically translated for languages other than English.

Improvements

• Better way to hide the honeypot field, which stops bots from subscribing to your lists.
• role="form" is no longer needed, thanks XhmikosR!
• Filter mc4wp_form_animate_scroll now disables just the scroll animation, not the scroll itself.
• Revamped UI for MailChimp lists overview
• Updated German & Greek translations.

Additions

• Added mc4wp_form_is_submitted() and mc4wp_form_get_response_html() functions.

• July 13, 2015 =

Improvements

• Use the same order as MailChimp.com, which is useful when you have over 100 MailChimp lists.
• Use /* ... */ for inline JavaScript comments to prevent errors with minified HTML - props Ed Gifford

Additions

• Filter: mc4wp_form_animate_scroll to disable animated scroll-to after submitting a form.
• Add {current_path} variable to use in form templates.
• Add default attribute to {data_name} variables, usage: {data_something default="The default value"}

• July 6, 2015 =

Fixes

• Undefined index notice when visitor's USER_AGENT is not set.

Improvements

• Relayed the browser's Accept-Language header to MailChimp for auto-detecting a subscriber's language.
• Better CSS for form reset
• Updated HTML5 placeholder polyfill

• June 24, 2015 =

Fixes

• Faulty update for v3.0 appearing for people running GitHub updater plugin.

Improvements

• Updated language files. Have a look at the translation project if you'd like to help out.
• Now passing the form as a parameter to mc4wp_form_css_classes filter.

• May 29, 2015 =

Fixes

• Issue with GROUPINGS not being sent to MailChimp

Improvements

• Code preview in Field Builder is now read-only

• May 27, 2015 =

Fixes

• Get correct IP address when using proxy like Cloudflare or Sucuri WAF.
• Use strict type check for printing inline CSS that hides honeypot field

Improvements

• Add contactemail and contactname to field name guesses when integrating with third-party form.
• Re-enable sslverify

• May 12, 2015 =

Fixes

• Groupings not being sent to MailChimp
• Get correct IP address when using proxy like Cloudflare or Sucuri WAF.
• Issue when using more than one {data_xx} replacement

Improvements

• IE8 compatibility for honeypot fallback script.

• May 6, 2015 =

Fixes

• PHP notice in includes/class-tools.php, introduced by version 2.3.

• May 6, 2015 =

Fixes

• The email address is no longer automatically added to the Redirect URL as this is against Google Analytics policy. To add it again, use ?email={email} in your Redirect URL setting.
• Registration type integrations were not correctly picking up on first- and last names.
• JavaScript error in IE8 because of setAttribute call on honeypot field.
• API class subscribe method now always returns a boolean.

Improvements

• Add role attribute to form elements
• Major code refactoring for easier unit testing and improved code readability.
• Use Composer for autoloading all plugin classes (PHP 5.2 compatible)
• You can now use form variables in both forms, messages as checkbox label texts.

Additions

• You can now handle unsubscribe calls with our forms too.
• Added Portugese, Indonesian, German (CH) and Spanish (PR) translations.

• February 4, 2015 =

Fixed

• Textual fix as entering "0" for no redirection does not work.

Improvements

• Moved third-party scripts to their own directory for easier exclusion
• All code is now adhering to the WP Code Standards
• Updated Dutch, German, Spanish, Hungarian, French, Italian and Turkish translations.

Additions

• Now showing a heads up when at limit of 100 MailChimp lists. (#71)
• Added wpml-config.xml file for better WPML compatibility
• Added filter mc4wp_menu_items for adding & removing menu items from add-ons

• February 13, 2015 =

Fixed

• Issue where WooCommerce checkout sign-up was not working for cheque payments.
• Translation were loaded too late to properly translate some strings, like the admin menu items.

Improvements

• The presence of required list fields in form mark-up is now checked as you type.
• Number fields will now repopulate if an error occurred.
• Updated all translations.
• Make sure there is only one plugin instance.
• Various other code improvements.

Additions

• Added support for GitHub Updater Plugin.
• You can now specify whether you want to send a welcome email (only with double opt-in disabled).

A huge thank you to Stefan Oderbolz for various fixed and improvements related to translations in this release.

• February 26, 2015 =

Fixes

• CSS reset wasn't working for WooCommerce checkout sign-up checkbox.
• mc4wp-submitted class was not added in IE8
• Incorrect action attribute on form element for some server configurations

Improvements

• Anti-SPAM improvements: a better honeypot field and a timestamp field to prevent instant form submissions.
• Reset background-image on submit buttons when using CSS themes
• Smarter email detection when integrating with third-party forms
• Updated all translations

Additions

• Custom fallback for browsers not supporting input[type="date"]

• March 11, 2015 =

Fixes

• Honeypot field was visible for themes or templates not calling wp_head() and wp_footer()

Improvements

• Various minor code improvements
• Updated German, Spanish, Brazilian, French, Hungarian and Russian translations.

Additions

• Added mc4wp_form_success action hook to hook into successful sign-ups
• Added mc4wp_form_data filter hook to modify all form data before processing

• March 24, 2015 =

Fixes

• API key field value was not properly escaped.
• Background images were stripped from submit buttons.

Improvements

• Better sanitising of all settings
• Updated all translations

Additions

• Added mc4wp_before_checkbox and mc4wp_after_checkbox filters to easily add more fields to sign-up checkbox integrations.
• Added some helper methods related to interest groupings to MC4WP_MailChimp class.
• Allow setting custom MailChimp lists to subscribe to using lists attribute on shortcode.

• April 15, 2015 =

Fixes

• Menu item for settings page not appearing on Google App Engine (#88)

Improvements

• Updated Italian, Russian & Turkish translations. Want to help translate the plugin? Full translations get a free Pro license.

• January 24, 2014 =

Minor improvements and additions for compatibility with the MailChimp Sync plugin.

• January 13, 2014 =

Fixes

• Plugin wasn't connecting to MailChimp for users on MailChimp server us10 (API keys ending in -us10)

• January 12, 2014 =

Improvements

• Use JS object to transfer lists data to Field Wizard.
• Field Wizard strings are now translatable
• Add is_spam method to checkbox integration to battle spam sign-ups
• Minor code & code style improvements
• Updated Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portugese (Brazil) translations

Additions

• You can now set MC_LOCATION, MC_NOTES and MC_LANGUAGE from your form HTML
• The submit button now has a default value when generating HTML for it

• December 9, 2014 =

Fixes

• "Select at least one list" notice appearing when unselecting any MailChimp list in Form settings
• If an error occurs, textareas will no longer lose their value

Improvements

• Improved the way form submissions are handled
• Minor code & documentation improvements
• Updated Dutch, French, Portugese and Spanish translations

Additions

• Added sign-up checkbox integration for WooCommerce checkout.
• Added sign-up checkbox integration for Easy Digital Downloads checkout.
• The entered email will now be appended to the URL when redirecting to another page

• December 1, 2014 =

Fixes

• Fixes onclick event in older versions of IE, props Simon Schick

Improvements

• Updated Dutch, French, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish and Taiwanese translations.
• Some textual improvements.

Additions

• {email} shortcode to use in form mark-up.

• November 18, 2014 =

Fixes

• Notice in class-widget.php when widget options are never saved.

Improvements

• Added some missing gettext calls so strings can be translated.
• Updated translations

• October 13, 2014 =

Fixes

• Notice in class-mailchimp.php when fetching lists from MailChimp.

• October 13, 2014 =

Fixes

• Fixed mc4wp_get_current_url() function for IIS servers using index.php in URL's.
• Nonce verification was failing with aggressive caching
• Only call is_email() on strings.

Improvements

• Minor improvements to memory usage and overall performance
• Improved sanitization for third-party integrations
• Wrapped debug messages for checkbox integrations in gettext calls so they can be translated
• Updated Dutch translations

Additions

• Submitted forms now get mc4wp-form-submitted CSS class.
• Filter: mc4wp_cookie_expiration_time to alter expiration time of email cookie. Defaults to 30 days.
• Hungarian translation, thanks to Nmeth Balzs
• Partial French translations

• September 15, 2014 =

Improvements

• Updated Spanish and Dutch translations
• Fixed missing text domains
• Removed obsolete code in upgrade routine
• All settings are now properly sanitized before being stored.

Additions

• Added Slovak language files, thanks to Henrich Koszegi - Webworks.sk.

• August, 26, 2014 =

Fixes

• Remove type attribute from textarea elements
• Check for array fields in form when checking presence of required MailChimp list fields

Improvements

• Added -webkit-appearance reset to checkbox CSS
• Updated Italian translations
• Updated links to point to the new MailChimp for WordPress Pro site.
• Don't use {response} tag if form is hidden after successful submissions

Additions

• Added official integration with Events Manager. Just include a mc4wp-subscribe checkbox field and MailChimp for WordPress will do the rest.

• August 12, 2014 =

Fixes

• mc4wp_get_current_url() now takes ports and the WP site url option into account
• Quicktags buttons were not showing because script was not loaded, now it is.

Improvements

• Improved CSS reset for the sign-up checkbox
• Added deprecated warning to some functions
• Improvements to third-party forms integration for the sign-up checkbox. Integrating with the Events Manager plugin should work now.
• Updated Dutch translations
• Updated English translations

Additions

• Added mc4wp_form_error_{ERROR_CODE} action hook to allow hooking into all form errors.
• Added {response} tag to allow setting a custom response position
• Added various filters to customize form HTML
• Added German language, thanks to Jochen Gererstorfer
• Added Italian language, thanks to Gianpaolo Rolando

• July 29, 2014 =

Fixes

• Some fields lost its value when a form error occured

Improvements

• Minified all CSS and JS files
• Required MailChimp fields are now validated server side as well.
• Birthday and address fields are now automatically formatted in the correct format
• Improved code, memory usage and class documentation

Additions

• Brazilian translations, thanks to Felipe Scuissiatto of Evonline
• mc4wp_form_messages filter to register custom error messages
• mc4wp_form_message_position filter to set position of error messages (before or after fields)
• Option to set the text for when a required field is missing

• July 21, 2014 =

Improvements

• Ignore Captcha fields in sign-up data
• Updated Spanish translations
• Minor improvements to Admin and MailChimp API class
• Show field tag and required status in Lists overview table

Additions

• Add visitor IP address to sign-up data

• July 2, 2014 =

Fixes

• Double sign-up requests for checkbox sign-ups

Improvements

• Reset checkbox label in default CSS for improved theme compatibility
• Improved checkbox integration classes
• Optimised function to retrieve the current URL

Additions

• Added {language} text variable to print the current site language.
• Added merge tag names to list overview table

• June 17, 2014 =

Fixes

• Fixed undefined index notice in Contact Form 7 integration class

Improvements

• Reset form width in all stylesheets

Fixes

• Fix fatal error when using mc4wp_checkbox() function
• No more double API request when integrating with Contact Form 7

Improvements

• Template functions are now always loaded when needed
• A warning will now show when required fields are missing in the form mark-up
• Required form classes can no longer be accidentally removed
• Various checkbox integration improvements
• Various CSS improvements to colored form themes
• Updated Spanish translations

Improvements

• Allowed translation of more strings in the settings screens.
• Added Spanish translations, thanks Paul Benitez - Tecnofilos
• Minor code improvements

Additions

• Saving forms without an EMAIL field or submit button will show a notice.

• April 29, 2014 =

Improvements

• CSS is now served as static CSS instead of being served through PHP.
• The anti-spam honeypot is now added to the sign-up checkbox as well.
• Improved object-oriented code architecture and better class documentation
• Better CSS reset for the various form themes to increase theme compatibility
• Added class autoloading to the plugin
• Various minor code improvements

Additions

• You can now add a captcha field to your sign-up forms by installing the BWS Captcha plugin and using [captcha] inside your form mark-up.
• All settings pages are now fully translatable. The plugin has just 2 translations available yet (en_US and nl_NL) so if you're good at translating, please send me your language pack for the plugin.
• You can now use tab indentation in the form markup textarea

Fixed bug where certain errors (like "already subscribed") were not showing up.

Minor improvements and small bug fixes.

• March 13, 2014 =
• Fixed: Honeypot textarea showing in some themes
• Improved: Plugin will automatically strip duplicate <form> tags from form mark-up
• Improved: Better code documentation
• Improved: Code is now more adhering to WP code standards
• Improved: Add custom error type to error message filter to allow developers to show custom error messages
• Improved: Plugin will now show detailed errors for failed API requests (up to HTTP level)
• Improved: Better way of loading plugin files

Fixed field generator only generating text input fields.

Fixed admin notice and "add to form" button, improved Contact Form 7 integration.

• February 4, 2014 =
• Improved: Improved direct file access security
• Improved: Now using native WP function to catch SSL requests
• Improved: Changed call method in API class to public.
• Added: Filter to edit the required capability to access settings pages
• Added: Filter to edit form action
• Added: Filters to allow extra form validation, like a captcha field.
• Added: Added get_member_info and list_has_subscriber method to API class.

Fixed admin notice and improved Contact Form 7 integration.

• January 5, 2013 =
• Fixed: Having to submit form twice for some www-hosts.
• Improved: Scroll to form now waits until page has completely loaded

• 18 December 2013 =
• Added: BIRTHDAY fields will now be formatted in the DD/MM format automatically
• Added: The plugin will now try to automatically format ADDRESS fields.
• Added: Form fields will now keep their value when a validation error occurs
• Improved: Cache headers for CSS file
• Improved: Added notice when no lists selected and using sign-up checkboxes
• Improved: Various code improvements
• Fixed: Error when activating Pro with the Lite plugin still activated.
• Fixed: BuddyPress & MultiSite checkbox not automatically added

WP 3.8 compatibility, better scroll to form and huge settings page performance improvement

• December 4, 2013 =
• Fixed: Checkbox width not being reset when loading default CSS.
• Improved: Minor security improvement to prevent some plugin files from being accessed directly.

• November 27, 2013 =
• Fixed: Incorrect invalid email address notice showing up every time.
• Fixed: Incorrect form action url for some servers.

Bugfix: fixed invalid email address message after updating to 1.4.4

• November 27, 2013 =
• Fixed: FNAME and LNAME not being guessed from NAME for form sign-ups.
• Added: very small JavaScript fallback for placeholders in older browsers (<

• November 19, 2013 =
• Improved: added filter hook mc4wp_lists to customize lists before sending request to MailChimp.
• Improved: added empty index.php files to directories to prevent directory listings

• November 11, 2013 =
• Improved: Minor textual improvements in settings pages
• Improved: Security improvement, plugin file can't be access directly anymore
• Added: GPL license to plugin files

Fixed grouping information not being sent to MailChimp when using sign-up forms.

New: default form themes, more unlocked fields in the "add field" tool and smarter auto-detection of name fields when integrating with Contact Form 7.

• October 20, 2013 =
• Fixed: bug when calling MailChimp API for PHP 5.2
• Improved: better default form CSS
• Improved: Combined checkbox and form stylesheets into 1 file and encouraged browser caching.

• Added: Form widget
• Added: Smooth scroll to form element after form submission (if jQuery loaded)
• Improved: Added and removed some buttons from QTags editor toolbar
• Improved: Some UI improvements
• Improved: Optimized integration with third-party forms like Contact Form 7

• Fixed undefined function mc4wp_replace_variables fatal error when using Quick Cache plugin.

• Improved: code performance improvements
• Improved: added mc4wp_get_form() for an easier shortcode callback. Useful to add a sign-up form to the end of your posts.
• Improved default CSS
• Improved: checkbox debug message only shows to WP Administrators when JavaScript is disabled
• Added: form nonce for better security
• Fix: CSS issue where the form caused a huge sidebar gap in some themes.

• Fixed: certain MailChimp fields not showing up in "Add field" dropdown.

• Improved: total revamp of the form field wizard, many improvements.
• Improved: some textual improvements in the setting pages
• Added: debug message to sign-up checkbox for WP administrators

• Fixed: Form using checkbox settings for list and double opt-in instead of form settings.