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Easy Mailchimp Optin Form

by Mahfuzar Rahman · Email & Marketing

The MailChimp plugin allows you to quickly and easily add a signup form for your MailChimp list as a widget on your WordPress 2.8 or higher site.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 63 average across 1,297 Email & Marketing plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 53/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4374 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,382 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-15% vs prior 30d
6Downloads · Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

180

now · peak 304

18530d downloads · Jul 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Easy Mailchimp Optin · #15207 you Mailchimp List Subsc · #672 Mailjet Email Market · #1511 Block for Mailchimp · #4494

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.7Stars · Jul 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

1.9Kper 1k installs · Jul 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

12.0y ago

latest release · v1.1

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1 · 12.0y ago1.0 · 12.0y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2020-01-12 · 1,383 observations

100Installs · Jul 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from. A declining trend compresses what a buyer would pay.

Details

Version
1.3
Last updated
12.0y ago
Added
2014-08-24 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
2.8
Tested up to
4.0.38
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. 3-4-SAD
    11.9y ago

    I can not get emails to be registered in the second list. I use shortcode [mailchimp Optin=”2″] but it doesn’t matter because all subscribers are automatically registered with the newest list in mailchimp. I have tried to enter the unique mailchimp ID for that list instead the number of the list but steel the sam issue. To bad, because everything else works.

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  2. Anonymous
    11.9y ago

    I tried to contact developer but contact form on site just says “Too Long Message” no matter what you type. Yes this plugin works, but if you go to mailchimp and add a new list, all your shortcodes on your website need to be changed. If you have 1 list – your shortcodes will be [mailchimp optin=1], now add a new list at mailchimp and this shortcode needs to be changed , or else it will go to the new list, not the original one. I have multiple lists. I added one and I had to go back and edit all the shortcodes since the optin # changed. It needs better handling of lists – some array that maintains the order (maybe by mailchimp key?) so when adding a new list at mailchimp, it would not affect existing shortcodes. And, it’d be great if there were improved look of optin boxes. They do not contain submit buttons and that can confuse users. It is just a box with the input fields for name/email, but you have to hit ‘Enter’ to submit as there is no submit button. I’d love to be able to modify easily the form look too 🙂 thanks k

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  3. Mahfuzar Rahman
    12.0y ago

    It can solve your mailchimp Optin form issue.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2025-03-02 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2025-02-28 100+ → 200+ up after 11 days in tier
  3. 2025-02-17 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2025-02-16 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-02-15 200+ → 100+ down after 344 days in tier
  6. 2024-03-08 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-03-07 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-03-06 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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