This is not a typical post, but I just had to share as it took me a good afternoon of trial error to figure out how to add a new contact to a Constant Contact account using their REST API. Their documentation has many holes, but fortunately the API works well.<\/p>\n
After you've authenticated, here's the XML required to add a new subscriber:<\/p>\n
This is not a typical post, but I just had to share as it took me a good afternoon of trial error to figure out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amp_status":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
\n\t<entry xmlns="http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom">
\n\t <link href="\/ws\/customers\/username<\/strong><\/em>\/contacts" rel="edit"><\/link>
\n\t <id>http:\/\/api.constantcontact.com:443\/ws\/customers\/username<\/strong><\/em>\/contacts<\/id>
\n\t <title type="text">Contact: email@address.com<\/strong><\/em><\/title>
\n\t <updated>2011-02-27T18:48:00.760Z<\/updated>
\n\t <author>
\n\t <name>Constant Contact<\/name>
\n\t <\/author>
\n\t <content type="application\/vnd.ctct+xml">
\n\t <Contact xmlns="http:\/\/ws.constantcontact.com\/ns\/1.0\/" id="http:\/\/api.constantcontact.com:443\/ws\/customers\/username<\/strong><\/em>\/contacts">
\n\t <Status>Active<\/Status>
\n\t <EmailAddress>email@address.com<\/strong><\/em><\/EmailAddress>
\n\t <OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CUSTOMER<\/OptInSource>
\n\t <EmailType>HTML<\/EmailType>
\n\t <Name>this doesn't seem to work - use firstname & lastname instead<\/strong><\/em><\/Name>
\n\t <FirstName><\/FirstName>
\n\t <MiddleName><\/MiddleName>
\n\t <LastName><\/LastName>
\n\t <JobTitle><\/JobTitle>
\n\t <CompanyName><\/CompanyName>
\n\t <HomePhone><\/HomePhone>
\n\t <WorkPhone><\/WorkPhone>
\n\t <Addr1><\/Addr1>
\n\t <Addr2><\/Addr2>
\n\t <Addr3><\/Addr3>
\n\t <City><\/City>
\n\t <StateCode><\/StateCode>
\n\t <StateName><\/StateName>
\n\t <CountryCode><\/CountryCode>
\n\t <CountryName><\/CountryName>
\n\t <PostalCode><\/PostalCode>
\n\t <SubPostalCode><\/SubPostalCode>
\n\t <Note><\/Note>
\n\t <CustomField1><\/CustomField1>
\n\t <CustomField2><\/CustomField2>
\n\t <CustomField3><\/CustomField3>
\n\t <CustomField4><\/CustomField4>
\n\t <CustomField5><\/CustomField5>
\n\t <CustomField6><\/CustomField6>
\n\t <CustomField7><\/CustomField7>
\n\t <CustomField8><\/CustomField8>
\n\t <CustomField9><\/CustomField9>
\n\t <CustomField10><\/CustomField10>
\n\t <CustomField11><\/CustomField11>
\n\t <CustomField12><\/CustomField12>
\n\t <CustomField13><\/CustomField13>
\n\t <CustomField14><\/CustomField14>
\n\t <CustomField15><\/CustomField15>
\n\t <ContactLists>
\n\t <ContactList id="http:\/\/api.constantcontact.com:443\/ws\/customers\/username<\/strong><\/em>\/lists\/2">
\n\t <link xmlns="http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom" href="\/ws\/customers\/username<\/strong><\/em>\/lists\/2" rel="self"><\/link>
\n\t <OptInSource>ACTION_BY_CONTACT<\/OptInSource>
\n\t <OptInTime>2011-02-27T18:48:00.810Z<\/OptInTime>
\n\t <\/ContactList>
\n\t <\/ContactLists>
\n\t <Confirmed>true<\/Confirmed>
\n\t <InsertTime>2011-02-27T18:48:00.760Z<\/InsertTime>
\n\t <LastUpdateTime>2011-02-27T18:48:00.760Z<\/LastUpdateTime>
\n\t <\/Contact>
\n\t <\/content>
\n\t <source>
\n\t <id>http:\/\/api.constantcontact.com:443\/ws\/customers\/username<\/strong><\/em>\/contacts<\/id>
\n\t <title type="text">Contacts for Customer: username<\/strong><\/em><\/title>
\n\t <link href="contacts"><\/link>
\n\t <link href="contacts" rel="self"><\/link>
\n\t <author>
\n\t <name>username<\/strong><\/em><\/name>
\n\t <\/author>
\n\t <updated>2011-06-03T17:14:10.175Z<\/updated>
\n\t <\/source>
\n\t<\/entry>
\n\t<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"