I had a WordPress webshop setup, and I am using the WordPress MailChimp Framework for sending newsletter, among other things. Now, the setup has been running since January 1st, then all of the sudden the Mailchimp framework suddenly stopped sending. The “Everything’s Chimpy” ping status does not appear as well, sometimes it’s NULL, sometimes it’s garbage character. I am pretty sure I haven’t touched any code of the plugin, and a colleague having a totally different project has experienced it as well.
Is any one of you experiencing this as well? I have emailed mailchimp, but as of today they just passed me to another group of theirs, and so far no reply yet.
Also, I remember their reply used to be “text/json”, but now I see a reply with Content-type “application/json”. I can’t find any post regarding these…
Well, it seems that the author of WordPress MailChimp Framework is on indefinite vacation. So I suggest to you having the same problem as this one is to go through the PHP MCAPI wrapper (http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/downloads/#php) since this one is directly supported by the MailChimp team. The team has updated the wrapper to handle dropped connections.
See this thread for more information: http://groups.google.com/group/mailchimp-api-discuss/browse_thread/thread/8a03c3a9cd3dc3bf
And yeah, forget about the WordPress MailChimp Framework if you want your sanity.