WatuPRO Bridge To MailChimp

If you are using MailChimp for your newsletters, here is a free bridge that will allow you to automatically subscribe users who complete quizzes in selected mailing lists. Similar to the Arigato PRO bridge it allows you to select required result / grade which lets you subscribe users to different mailing lists depending on their performance.

Note the following from the MailChimp API: “Subscribe the provided email to a list. By default this sends a confirmation email – you will not see new members until the link contained in it is clicked!“. From version 0.9 we have added a checkbox that allows you to override this setting and signup the user without email confirmation. Do this at your own risk. If your MailChimp account gets banned for abuse we can not help and will not be responsible.

Note also that MailChimp now requires name not to be empty. So please use it for quizzes which request name from the user in one or another way. If it’s let empty, the plugin will attempt to set it as “Guest” but this is not recommended way to handle things.

The bridge will not work if you select “Don’t store any data / results of this quiz in the database.”

Once installed and activated the plugin will add link “Bridge to MailChimp” in your WatuPRO menu.

In order to use it you need to obtain free MailChimp API key.

Download The Plugin Here (Version 1.7, 9 KB)

Here is a screenshot of how it looks:

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From version 1.6 you can also tag members when adding them to the mailing list.

Troubleshooting

In case the respondents do not get added to the mailing lists as expected, have a look at the Log tab (next to Settings on top of the bridge page). It contains the MailChimp response and canhelp you identify the problem. If you have to contact us, we will need the information from this log.

If you’d rather not pay monthly fees and leave your mailing list data in someone else’s hand, we recommend you our premium WordPress Autoresponder / Drip marketing suite. It comes with one-time fee and optional yearly upgrade fees, and there is also free bridge for connecting WatuPRO.

Namaste! LMS to Arigato PRO Bridge

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This is a free bridge for Namaste! LMS users who also have Arigato PRO. The bridge lets you do two things:

1. Automatically enroll user who subscribes to selected mailing list in a selected course
2. Automatically subscribe user who enrolls or complete course into a mailing list

Download Bridge Here (6KB)

After activation a new link called “Bridge to Autoresponder” will appear under you Namaste! LMS menu.

The screenshot below will give you a better idea what it does.

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WatuPRO 4.5 – Chained Logic, File Uploads, New Quiz Page Design, and More

Here is the latest update to WatuPRO:

  1. A new setting lets you allow users to flag questions for review
  2. Now there is much easier way to request user email, name and other contact info – see here
  3. You can now set up no-ajax submitting of some quizzes to accept file uploads and for other reasons (learn more)
  4. When using category grades and the %%CATGRADES%% variable you can also control the order the category results appear at the end: default, from best to worst, or from worst to best category by user performance
  5. Added “Time spent” column in the “View results” page
  6. The add / edit quiz form has been redesigned with tabs to make it easier to use
  7. You can pass a list of comma separated question IDs in the quiz not found shortcode to specify exactly which questions to be shown and disregard any randomization and grouping settings. This is yet another method to reuse questions from same quiz in multiple setups. The format to use is quiz not found where X is the quiz ID. This is internally called by the free User Choice add-on
  8. The free User Choice addon lets you publish quizzes in which the user selects what questions to answer.
  9. The new Chained logic addon – see here
  10. Option to auto-publish unpublished quiz at the time of creating or editing it
  11. You can allow users to select WatuPRO user group when signing up
  12.  Twitter sharing is now available in our free social sharing addon
  13. [Intelligence module] A new shortcode lets you expand the information show for personality quiz results. Please check the internal Help page for more info and example.
  14. [Intelligence module] Now personality quizzes allow matching one answer to multiple results. This will be useful if you don’t always relate answers 1:1 to results (for example having 30 personality types should not mean that you need 30 possible answers on every question)
  15. Changed the quiz shortcode to small letters for better compatibility with other plugins. The old codes will remain working
  16. When questions are grouped by category the category title and description will be shown in all quiz pagination types (used to be shown only when the quiz is paginated “one page per question category”)
  17. Stats per questions also shows number and % unanswered (Reporting module)
  18. Fixed % calculations in the poll shortcode (Reporting module)
  19.  Auto-stop any playing audio questions when user moves from page to page
  20. Added filters from WP Quick LaTeX so you can now use everything from that plugin (this is the best LaTeX plugin!)
  21. Fixed bug with “time taken” for non-logged in users on paginated quizzes

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