MailChimp has released a great new WordPress plugin: Analytics360°. This plugin creates a reporting dashboard for your MailChimp and Google Analytics right within your WordPress admin interface.
Take a look at the post about the plugin on MailChimp’s blog, which includes a very cool video.
It’s pretty slick, and useful – though I may be biased since my team and I at Crowd Favorite were lucky enough to build the plugin. I don’t log into my Google Analytics account that often, but I’m in my WordPress admin daily. With this plugin, I’ll probably be keeping a little closer eye on my stats.
I can’t imagine how useful this would be if I also did email campaigns with MailChimp. Having a visual display of web site visitor data integrated with mailings and blog posts is hot! The plugin uses APIs and MailChimp and Google Analytics to gather data, then uses that data to build the visualizations in the plugin. With the excellent APIs at both services, we can do all of this without needing to store your credentials for the services, making everything that much more secure.
Check it out, you (obviously) need either a Google Analytics account or a MailChimp account to bring in the data from that service, and it will work if you have either/or.
If you have questions, need support or need to report a bug or plugin conflict, please use the form here (per the FAQ).
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Luis adds this Comment:
This is by far the most professional Analytics plugin I’ve seen so far, thanks for pointing it out. Another thing, I didn’t know MailChimp had a free option for their services, double shot… Thanks again.
July 14th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
jorge adds this Comment:
I have been eying mailchimp for a while now, I might have to check it out now…
July 14th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Ryan Imel adds this Comment:
This looks great, Alex. Very well done. I’m looking forward to getting it set up on each of my blogs now. Any service which eliminates a step or two from a process (like checking site stats) only helps us all. Thanks!
July 14th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Ted Szukalski adds this Comment:
Great plugin. Similarly to most people I seldom visit Google Analytics but WP dashboard is almost there all the time. Thanks to this plugin I discovered I had WPG2 rewrites turned off by accident and thus Google could not index my gallery properly.
July 14th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Sanjay M adds this Comment:
Wow this is just amazing – as a developer I find it quite informative to follow you on twitter and this plugin was a real cool bonus
Installation was effortless, I could just search for it from the plugin search, and then with just a few clicks had it installed activated and integrated with my google analytics! Thanks a ton for all involved!
July 15th, 2009 at 12:23 am
uncleboob adds this Comment:
This plugin is wicked. I like it very much to manage google Analytics from the Dashboard.
Before that plugin I did not know anything about campaigns and stuff. But now I am a user of MailChimp and very satisfied.
Thanks a lot
July 15th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Stijn adds this Comment:
Analytics360° sparked my interest from the moment I heard of it. You can imagine how happy I am now that it’s finally out and I’m able to ‘play’ with it. Installation was easy, and everything seems to work out of the box. First imperssion: amazing work. Kuddos to you and your team!
July 15th, 2009 at 2:11 am
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July 15th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Alex Rodriguez adds this Comment:
I have SSL enabled for my admin pages, when I entered my MailChimp ID and password it appears to be posting to the non-secure pages as the browser indicated as such. Other than that its awesome!
July 15th, 2009 at 6:25 am
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July 15th, 2009 at 7:54 am
J.S. Epperson adds this Comment:
I installed it last night . . . it is BRILLIANT!
July 15th, 2009 at 7:58 am
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July 15th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
devnet adds this Comment:
Doesn’t work for me…
Error: Could not connect (ERR 1322461232: Unable to find the socket transport “ssl” – did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)
Hosted…so I guess I’m out of luck eh?
July 15th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Rob W. adds this Comment:
Wow, this is really nice – a time-saver and IMO, better statistics than can be easily found at Google.
July 16th, 2009 at 11:55 am
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July 16th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
ruigato adds this Comment:
Just installed. Its a great plugin, thanks.
The only feature it lacks its the ability to show in the authors dashboard also.
That would be great for multi autored blogs
July 17th, 2009 at 6:50 am
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July 31st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
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August 1st, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Jean adds this Comment:
Thanks so much .. looking forward to getting this going as Iam just starting to work with mailchimp..the more simplicity the better.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Luke Byrne adds this Comment:
Alex,
The Analytics 360 plugin is great. I was wondering if you minded if people use it as a protoype for integrating it into another CMS.
The site that our University uses is Squiz Matrix, and it would be great to have in that.
I am just having a dig around in the code from the Wordpress download. If the answer is that ” No I don’t mind what you try and do with the code” I was wondering if you had a standalone version of the plugin, which would be easier for trying to port into other CMSes.
I look forward to your response.
Kind regards,
Luke Byrne
August 26th, 2009 at 1:22 am
Alex adds this Comment:
The MailChimp plugin is released under the GPL v2 – you are welcome to use it as you like under these terms, including creating derivative works (also must be GPL’ed).
August 27th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Luke Byrne adds this Comment:
Hey Alex,
As per my above comment here is the version I have done.
There are a few issues which I have added in the post, hopefully can get them ironed out.
http://ilove.lukebyr[...]nalytics360/
September 10th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
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September 16th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
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