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April 19, 2013 at 5:26 pm #36461SammysofaMember
Hello,
I setup MailChimp and have been able to setup an automatic email of my blogs.
My question is I can't seem to get it to be the whole blog with pictures in the email. How would I get the full blog with pictures to show up?
I'm using the free version of MailChimp.
http://tracystella.com/April 19, 2013 at 8:12 pm #36492RobinMemberCheck your RSS merge tags and make sure they are for the full content, not just the excerpt (I think the default RSS email has the excerpt tag in it). Here is a sample of a simple RSS email campaign I've used and it does send the full content:
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*|RSSITEMS:|*
*|RSSITEM:TITLE|*
*|RSSITEM:CONTENT_FULL|*
Read in browser »
*|RSSITEM:TWITTER|* *|RSSITEM:LIKE|*
*|END:RSSITEMS|*
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I would also check the settings for your feed in WordPress and make sure the feed is sending out the full article, not just the excerpt--although I pulled it up in feedly and it looks like it's sending the full thing, so my guess is the merge tags. HTH
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May 17, 2013 at 1:53 am #41322eluviisMemberHey, let me add something here...
I found Mailchimp RSS to Email to be extremely easy to setup - much more so than Aweber's Blog Broadcast (their brand name of RSS to email).
I did find one problem however, and I can't seem to find a solution.
The featured image, if it's only used as a featured image and not in the body of the article per se, will not feed the Mailchimp campaigns.
Any idea how to get around this? I use Minimum, where the featured image is usually big a important. No need to repeat it in the body again. I really would like it to feed to the Mailchimp RSS to email campaign. The merge tags seem to be fine - the same ones @Robin listed.
May 17, 2013 at 8:14 am #41365RobinMembereluviis, try this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-rss-images/
I forget how I stumbled on it but was having some issues with how MC was translating WP images so did some googling and found it. Basically what I had to to was add this to my email at the beginning:
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In my WP settings for the plugin, I have medium selected, and then everything except for enclosure tag checked. Selecting a different size will change what you want to do with styling the div but hopefully that's a start. HTH
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May 17, 2013 at 8:20 am #41368RobinMemberNo matter what I do to swap out the brackets, it's not letting me. You set up a div for the image. Mine has
`padding: 0px 20px 20px 0px; float: left`
and then the link target is:
`*|RSSITEM:URL|*` wrapped around `*|RSSITEM:IMAGE|*`
...and then on with the content of your email.
I do the best I can with what I’ve got. (say hey on twitter)
May 17, 2013 at 11:00 am #41399eluviisMember^^^ Hi Robin, thanks for that. I'll look into it and see if I can make it work. I'm a little concerned about trying it, because there's really nothing wrong with my images, just the featured image. But I'm happy to try it on some test posts late at night and see how they feed to my campaigns.
That's sort of what I did last night while testing various featured image sizes. The test post feeds live to my Mailchimp campaign. But since I have my campaigns set to email at a specific hour in the morning every day, as long as I turn the test post back to "draft" before the morning, it will never feed a complete email out. Good for testing.
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