Post Notifications – sent old blog post

  • Resolved taastrategies

    (@taastrategies)


    1 year, 9 months ago

    I setup a new Post Notification for my blog and set the frequency to daily at 8:00am. The day after I activated it, MailPoet sent out (at 8:00am) a notice of a blog post which was several weeks old. I can find no special settings in the editor or instructions which would prevent this from happening.

    Sending the latest (old) post when activated is going to be a problem since it must be deactivated and then reactivated whenever the notification is edited.

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  • <del>I have a similar problem; in the “Post Notifications” tab, I have specified the maximum number of articles to be displayed, in this case 5, but the e-mail that is sent contains 10.

In the “Newsletter” tab, the number of articles that is specified is respected.</del>

    Sorry for the post, it’s OK

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by Lise.
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    Plugin Support Dani F. a11n

    (@danielinhou)

    Hi there @taastrategies ????!

    Thank you for reaching out to MailPoet Support!

    Yes, if I am getting this right, the post notification was sent after it was activated in the scheduled time.

    That’s expected as explained here:

    When?creating a Post Notification, all the posts you see in the Automatic Latest Content block are going to be sent in the first email.?

    If you would like a setting to prevent it from send the first email, it would be great if you could add it as a suggestion here https://feedback.mailpoet.com so that other users can upvote and comment on it.

    Our team will take it into account when discussing new features and improvements for the plugin ??

    Cheers!

    Thread Starter taastrategies

    (@taastrategies)

    This just gets worse! Following the previous issue of sending an email out on an old blog post, I disabled the post notification which had been set to 8:00am. This morning, I posted a new blog post at 7:45, edited the notification to send out notifications at 12:00, and activated the notification. One notification was sent out at 8:04 this morning and a repeat at 12:00. This just irritates subscribers into unsubscribing!

    I switched from MailChimp to MailPoet as part of a growth plan; however MailPoet has demonstrated many more disadvantages than advantages:

    • no/little control over the sending of post notifications
    • the MailPoet email editor really screws up copy drafted in or copied from globally used word processing applications such as Word or Google Docs
    • the sending statistics are severely reduced to the point of near nothing
    • fails to confirm subscribers added through MemberPress purchases

    Further, I expected a native WordPress application editor to have reusable blocks

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