Send automatic weekly emails

Hi peucaio,

That’s an excellent feature idea. We don’t currently have it, but I see this as a fairly quick and useful add-on. Here’s an idea we could work on over the next several weeks:

– Admin area section titles “Schedule Regular Post Updates”
– Select WP Cron schedule [Off, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly]
– Select list(s), set title, from name, etc.
– Select WP post categories to use
– No ability to send test email yet (must set a test contact list initially)

Let us know how that plan sounds…

No charge as this is for Benchmark’s WordPress customers and we are an Affiliate Partner.

Thanks,
Sean

Hi Sean,

Thanks for the quick answer. I thought of it because I have a client, a Benchmark customer, who prefers to send weekly e-mails rather than bothering her users with single e-mails. This would also increase pageviews on her website, as the user won’t read the full article inside the e-mail (which is fairly uncommon based on my experience).

I thought of developing a custom function for her, but it would be expensive and too much time consuming, since I haven’t study the plugin code yet.

I agree with your scope! I would just add that the templating system needs to be adapted too, to include more formatting options for the “posts loop”, like grabbing title, permaling, excerpt and featured image. Something like:

%POSTS_LOOP_START%
<a href="%POST_PERMALINK%"><b>%POST_TITLE%</b></a>
<br>
%POST_EXCERPT%.
%POSTS_LOOP_END

Just a mockup, you’ll probably have better ideas on how to work with this.

Thanks,
Pedro

Hi Sean,
Any news on that? Let’s keep discussing this feature ??

Thanks,
Pedro

Hi Pedro,

It turns out this feature is already built into Benchmark Email via their user interface. See the following link for configuring the campaign:

https://ui.benchmarkemail.com/help-FAQ/answer/how-do-i-create-an-rss-to-email-campaign

You will need your WordPress RSS URL. This can be the built in feed or use a plugin to provide more specific feeds for this usage.

We may still add this feature so it’s built into the WP plugin, but this should help you out in the short term ??

Great Sean, I’m trying to configure it but it’s giving me an RSS error.
When I say the RSS feed URL (https://andrezadicaeindicadisney.com.br/feed), it doesn’t recognize as a valid RSS, I don’t know why, asI it’s being generated automatically by WordPress.

Thanks,
Pedrio

Hi Pedro,

The RSS feed URL you are putting in looks correct to me. Are you getting any specific error from it that might narrow it down?

On their instructions, they indicate you can contact Benchmark Email support for assistance since that is a core Benchmark Email feature not specific to our WP Plugin but available for any RSS service. They might know of a trick with the latest WP RSS native feed and is worth a shot.

Alternatively, you could install a free feed burner plugin that generates an alternative feed URL to try out.

I’ll ask my colleague Randy to run through those RSS instructions and see if he can figure out any tricks to get it to work. I plan to work on the plugin this weekend and will let you know about your other question soon…

Thanks,
Sean