Mailchimp WP Double Opt-In settings are not syncronized with Mailchimp account Double Opt-In settings

[MaxwellGarceau]

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Discovered on #113

At the moment, there are two options to set Double Opt-In. One in the Mailchimp WP settings page and the other in the user's Mailchimp account. However, both are separate from each other.

Mailchimp WP Double Opt-In

Controls form submissions sent from the WP site

Mailchimp account Double Opt-In

Controls form submissions made on Mailchimp's self hosted sign up forms

Synchronize Double Opt-In settings?

Do we want to syncronize these settings? I think the best idea would be to give the user more visibility into their Mailchimp account settings to prevent confusion. Two ideas below would be:

• Button in Mailchimp WP to pull in the setting from the user's Mailchimp account
• Disable the Mailchimp WP Double Opt-In checkbox and display what is set in the Mailchimp account. Add an option to set an override in the local Mailchimp WP Double Opt-In setting.

What does everyone think @jeffpaul @dkotter?

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[jeffpaul]

@MaxwellGarceau if there's a way to actually change the setting on the Mc platform side, my preference would be to have the setting in the WP plugin adjust that accordingly

[jeffpaul]

Is this being handled already in #115?

[MaxwellGarceau]

@MaxwellGarceau if there's a way to actually change the setting on the Mc platform side, my preference would be to have the setting in the WP plugin adjust that accordingly

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any documentation regarding setting the double opt-in setting via the API.
Actually, just found it 🙂.

/lists/{list_id} has a body parameter for double opt-in. I did a proof of concept and this is an option!

save-single-optin-through-api.mov

[MaxwellGarceau]

The only word of warning I would have with synchronizing the Mailchimp WP double opt-in settings to the Mailchimp account settings is to notify the user that it's happening.

The double opt-in settings on the Mailchimp account affect all of Mailchimp's self hosted sign up forms. I could imagine a scenario where a user wants a frictionless sign up on their Mailchimp sign up form, but uses double opt-in on their website to help with spam sign ups (or vice versa).