Earlier this month I spent quite a bit of time researching, redesigining, and tweaking my MailChimp email autoresponder campaign. This campaign updates users automatically in their email whenever I post something on my blog. I wanted to learn how to design a better MailChimp campaign email. I went from something that looked like the Before screenshot, to looking like the After screenshot (below).
| MailChimp email campaign design BEFORE |
MailChimp email campaign design AFTER |
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In my search I found that there is no easy way to add latest posts with images and excerpt to a MailChimp email design. That was disappointing, but I pressed on. Some intrepid WordPress web developers offered a few solutions. Here are five that I found the most interesting:
- https://wordimpress.com/anatomy-advanced-mailchimp-rss-feed/
- https://gist.github.com/mathetos/150f8d969b7c9e8dcacc
- https://wiregrasswebsites.com/2014/03/create-a-custom-rss-feed-template-for-wordpress/
- https://wpshout.com/how-to-add-custom-data-to-a-wordpress-rss-feed/
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Feeds
I’ll save getting into the meat of things for a future post. But, suffice it to say, I created the WordPress Custom RSS Feed with Offset RSS feed template in my wp-includes folder and then I had to go with my wife to get groceries.
Total time spent: about 2 hours
