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Email new blog posts (RSS)

This is on the Pro plan. You can set it up and check it on any plan; it switches on after an upgrade.

1. Open Automations. Under Email new blog posts (RSS), give it a name and press Make an RSS email. It starts switched off.
2. Paste your blog's RSS or Atom feed link. Most blogs have one: WordPress at /feed, Shopify blogs at /blogs/news.atom, Substack and Ghost at /feed or /rss.
3. Choose the time (UK) and the days. Tick only Monday for a weekly email of the week's posts.
4. Choose who gets it, and the words. Press Save.
5. Press Check and preview, then Send me this as a test.
6. Press Switch on.

• Only posts published after you switch it on are sent. Nobody gets your old posts.
• At the time, on a ticked day, the posts published since the last email go out in one email (at most 10): each with its picture, title, first lines and a link. No new post: nothing is sent.
• Words that fill in: {title} (the newest post), {summary} (its first lines), {count} (how many posts), {business} and {first_name}.
• Each email is a normal campaign: it shows in Campaigns with its report, with the same checks as a campaign you send. If a check fails, nothing is sent, you get an alert, and the posts go next time.
• No HTML from your feed goes in the email: the titles and first lines are made plain text.