GKauten Consultingv1.2

Administration Options

Often times you may have your own methods for managing users and their email addresses for purposes of marketing and newsletters. Though WordPress has a wonderful user registration capability already built in, integrating this with your 3rd party email marketing process can be quite the task. This specific plugin integrates with AWeber Communications for those of you who have accounts with them. It works by seamlessly integrating with your WordPress system such that when a user registers on your site through your standard WordPress registration form and enters their name and email, as they submit the form this information is sent along to AWeber using your WordPress account information to register them with your marketing account.

A little bit about AWeber Communications:

Founded in 1998, we create email marketing software to help small businesses automate email follow up and email newsletter delivery.

Our growing team shares a wealth of experience and knowledge about permission-based email marketing with the over 61,000 current customers we work with daily.

If you prefer to upload the files yourself just select one of the two compressed files below, unzip the package within your plugin folder (wp-content/plugins), or upload the files to your plugin folder, either/or. Alternatively, you can search ‘AWeber Registration Integration’ from your Plugins menu within WordPress to install directly to your blog, or install the files directly from WordPress at the link below.

Once the files are in their proper place, log in to your WordPress control panel, go to the Plugins section and activate the AWeber Registration Integration plugin. Once active you will now have a new submenu in the Settings pane on the left. Click on the AWeber Integration submenu and be sure to enter your Form ID and Unit Name so that the plugin can access the API and integrate with your account. This information can be found in the HTML form code provided to you through your AWeber account so be sure to login to your account and retrieve this information. The plugin will not integrate with your WordPress registration process until this information has been entered.

Note: The user will not be automatically and forcefully added to your AWeber account. They will receive a confirmation email from AWeber confirming their intent to register with their site on behalf of your newsletter or marketing campaign.

If you find this plugin useful, please donate. Donations help pay for my AWeber account which allows me to continue supporting and improving this plugin as WordPress and Aweber continue to evolve on their respective paths.

Special thanks to Guru Consulting Services, Inc. for their original platform on which some of these functions derive.