Get blog posts into digest

  • Dear @boonebgorges,

    I hope I find you well ?? I have a question which might be a bit out of scope but maybe you have an idea.

    I am using one buddypress group for all users on my page to which they are automatically added and send them weekly updates. Ideally, I would also like to include links to my blog posts into the digest.

    I know I can just post the link to the blog in the group to make that happen, but I was wondering whether there is any way to automate this so that everytime I post a blog, either a post in my default buddypress group appears or BG GES somehow pulls the information on its own and puts it into the weekly digest.

    Is any of that possible?

    Thanks in advance and have a great day.

    Kind regards, Philip

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  • Plugin Author Boone Gorges

    (@boonebgorges)

    You should be able to accomplish this by using a tool that pulls posts from your site into your group activity feed. The most flexible way to do this is with an RSS feed, using a tool like https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/external-group-blogs. BPGES should then pick up on this new activity and send notifications to subscribed members.

    Thread Starter Strothi

    (@strothi)

    Dear @boonebgorges,

    that worked, great stuff! Now I have run into a different problem. I need to use an external smtp server to send messages and after some research everything works. You discussed the issue also once here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/using-an-smtp-plugin-2/

    I found also an elegant solution through bp-customs here to address the issue of all BP mails now being sent in plain text: https://ast.io/html-emails-buddypress-bbpress/

    Unfortunately, the BG GES mails are still being sent as plain text ?? Buddypress messages are nicely formated in HTML, but the emails coming from your plugin are now the only ones still using plain text. Any idea why that might be the case and why the workaround cited about works for the BP emails, but not for yours?

    Thanks SO MUCH, I really appreciate your support!

    Kind regards, Philip

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