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Hey there,

I'm having a little bit of trouble understanding exactly what you mean when you say "a set of custom field with which our check box sign up could import" but i have a feeling you might be overcomplicating things, so am going to suggest the 'CiviCRM way' of doing things.  Maybe there is a good reason you aren't doing this. If so, please explain and we can help a bit more.

So rather than having custom fields, tags and smart groups and trying to sync them all, just use normal groups and expose these on the profile.  This should work better because groups are the standard way for CiviCRM to manage mailings. This way should avoid you having to deal with "automatically connect the custom fields to the tag system" and "Tags for each topic have been set up, and smart groups to corresponding mailing groups are already configured".

Make sense?

Perhaps English is not your first language but "the WordPress CiviCRM component created custom fields..."  attributes powers to CiviCRM that it just does not have.

A person decided to use custom field for the different newsletter subjects and the same or another person can decide that custom field-> tag -> group is harder to achieve than the alternative.

I would strongly encourage you to investigate Michael's suggestion of using normal groups exposed on a profile.

Refer to http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/email/setup/  starting at  Allow people to sign up for your mailing lists online  for more information.

I will try to explain the difficulty. We can import a contact to a single group(mailing list). The solution provided above does not address our prime issue.

The issue at hand is the requirement to accept zero-eight checkbox topics, and enter the contact into the correct mailing groups they select.

In other words, I want someone on my website to provide Name, email, and select any to all topics they are interested in, and then import that data into a group created for each topic.