<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34162">Hi John and thanks.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34162"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34162" dir="ltr">It sounds as if you know at least something of the 'few features' that are not available in a Civi-WP setup? If you have a moment, are you able to say anything more?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34162" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34162" dir="ltr">Your comment as to MailChimp sounds pretty final. Is this in spite of the couple of Mailchimp integration extensions that seem to have been developed? I appreciate that not all extensions are created equal.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34162" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34162" dir="ltr">Cheers</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34162" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34162" dir="ltr">Paul</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34207"><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34186" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34185"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34184"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34183"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34182"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> John Robert Hudson <j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk; Paul Colley <pchcolley@yahoo.co.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 10 March 2016, 9:34<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34181"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34180">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bradford] Degrees of integration?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1457602384220_34411"><br>Hi Paul<br clear="none"><br clear="none">You can put CiviCRM on top of WordPress (or Joomla! or Drupal) but there are a <br clear="none">few features not available in WordPress. Unless you have very specific needs, <br clear="none">these are unlikely to make any difference.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">CiviCRM comes with its own CiviMail module which gives you MailChimp like <br clear="none">functionality. You cannot link it to MailChimp.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">There is a north of England CiviCRM meetup which meets from time to time so, <br clear="none">depending on your timescale, you could come to one of their meetings or I <br clear="none">could talk the issues through with you.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">John<br clear="none">--<div class="yqt3563605939" id="yqtfd88012"><br clear="none">On Thursday 10 Mar 2016 00:14:16 Paul Colley wrote:<br clear="none">> Does anyone have any experience of / thoughts on the extent to which CiviCRM<br clear="none">> plays nicely with either/or/both of WordPress and Mailchimp?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I am aware of the forums and communities that exist around these wares, but<br clear="none">> thought I'd tap the hive mind anyway. Cheers<br clear="none">> Paul ColleyBradford CVS<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>