Capture your visitor's email address and subscribe them to your newsletter campaign with this simple Mailchimp widget plugin!
As of April 2026, Mailchimp Widget by ProteusThemes is a WordPress form plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 51K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 33% this week. Top alternative: MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress.
This plugin registers a custom WordPress widget called Mailchimp by ProteusThemes. This widget will allow you to connect to your Mailchimp account with your API key and you will be able to select the list you want your visitors to subscribe to.
This widget can be used for all sorts of things, like: newsletter, lead capture, email sequence, and much more!
The Widget will output an email input field and a submit button, that’s all you need to capture your visitor’s email address. Main idea behind this plugin is that’s easy and simple to use.
Do you want to contribute?
Please refer to the official GitHub repository of this plugin.
There are tons of plugins with similar functionality, most of them will clutter your wp-admin with banners and upgrade notices or be very hard to use and configure. Most probably both.
This is a perfect example how the plugins should look like. Easy to use and without all the unnecessary clutter and gazillion of options. Great work!
This plugin is exactly what I need. Nothing less nothing more!
PERFECT!
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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