How to add ES users to MailChimp list without them knowing?
By Norske on Saturday, 06 December 2014
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Hello,
I have an existing MailChimp mailing list that has all my EasySocial users. I manually exported and imported them. Members have been receiving emails for several months.
Now I would like to use a MailChimp custom profile field to allow users to subscribe and unsubscribe. I want to add the field to their profile with a default value of "yes" (subscribed) since they are all subscribed already. I also don't want to generate any "opt-in" email to all my users, since they are all already subscribed.
Does this make sense? How can I do this?
Hello Norske ,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.
You have to hack those file in your site, so that the mailchimp field checkbox will always show checked when the user edit their profile/registration.
JoomlaFolder\media\com_easysocial\apps\fields\user\mailchimp\themes\default\edit.php
JoomlaFolder\media\com_easysocial\apps\fields\user\mailchimp\themes\default\register.php
JoomlaFolder\media\com_easysocial\apps\fields\user\mailchimp\themes\default\sample.php
Arlex Wong
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Saturday, 06 December 2014 13:39
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Hmmm....thanks for that, but I don't want it to ALWAYS be checked. I want it to be checked by default, because everyone is currently subscribed. I still want them to be able to unsubscribe if needed.
Norske
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Sunday, 07 December 2014 05:02
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Unfortunately this cannot be done unless we query the mailchimp's API to determine if the user actually subscribed to the list or not. Doing this will definitely increase the loading time of the profile editing page because your server needs to communicate with Mailchimp's server.
Mark
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Sunday, 07 December 2014 17:00
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