MailChimp is definitely one of the most advanced Email Subscription Service
in the globe. If you are owning a WordPress professional site and want to grow your subscriber list then it’s not a bad idea to move to MailChimp. For Crunchify.com, I’m also in process of moving to MailChimp Service from Google Adsense in couple of weeks.
On Crunchify.com I’m using Genesis eNews Extended WordPress plugin as a Sign Up form.

It’s one of the best Sign Up plugin for Genesis Framework. Using the Genesis E-News Extended Plugin with MailChimp. In this tutorial we will go over how to set it up with MailChimp service correctly.
Let’s get started:
Step-1
- Go to mailchimp.com
- Click on
Lists
andCreate List
with name “Crunchify Subscriber
“

Step-2
- Once you create list, Click on it and new page will appear.
- Click on
Signup forms
- Click on
Embedded forms

Step-3
- Go to
Naked Tab
as it removed all unnecessary required CSS codes - Copy code from
Copy/paste onto your site
section

Step-4
You will see code something like this. We will be interested in below 4 fields from code:
- form action
- name=EMAIL
- name=FNAME
- name=LNAME
<div id="mc_embed_signup"> <form action="//crunchify.us22.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=a7f66d8642381eq8c15756&id=vd5b9h7238" method="post" id="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" name="mc-embedded-subscribe-form" class="validate" target="_blank" novalidate> ............ ............ <input type="email" value="" name="EMAIL" class="required email" id="mce-EMAIL"> </div> <div class="mc-field-group"> <label for="mce-FNAME">First Name </label> <input type="text" value="" name="FNAME" class="" id="mce-FNAME"> </div> <div class="mc-field-group"> <label for="mce-LNAME">Last Name </label> <input type="text" value="" name="LNAME" class="" id="mce-LNAME"> </div> ............ ............ </form> </div>
Step-5
- Go to
Appearance -> Widgets
section of your admin panel - Add Genesis Enews Extended widget to your sidebar widget area (Hope you have already installed plugin on you site)
- As mentioned in below screenshot provide all 4 values

Step-6
Click Save
and you are all set. Now if user will directly subscribe to MailChimp List if they use above form on your site.
MailChimp Alternative?
Here are few MailChimp Alternatives.
- Aweber
- Infusion Soft
- Sendy – Self Hosted
- iContact
- InstantContact

