I have a wordpress site and link Mailchimp to the RSS feed. Sometimes Mailchimp sends an email with the correct heading but "No RSS items found." for the body, despite there being text in the RSS feed.
Has anyone else had this issue or know of a solution?
If the URL is the same for your RSS campaign and your FEEDBLOCK, try switching to the RSSITEMS merge tags instead. From what I can see and from speaking with MailChimp support, this should avoid the issue by not having MailChimp do a separate request for the feed which might timeout and cause the error.
Of course if there is a performance issue with fetching the RSS feed the campaign may not send at all some days, but at least you should avoid the ugly "no rss items found" error.
Sometimes the reason you get "No RSS items found" in your Mailchimp feed (even though it's a valid feed) is because a special character has slipped in there when the story title or text has been copied from a word doc etc. - e.g. special quote marks like ยจ instead of ". Just go to the post and change the special character to the standard one by typing over it manually from your keyboard, and then your feed should be working again in no time.
To answer your question, the reason why you are getting "No RSS items found." is because you correctly tagged the heading with |RSSITEM| though when it comes to body you are using |FEEBLOCKS| hence the error.
For you to receive title, text and link you need to change FEEDBLOCKS to RSSITEMS. Below is a working example for mail-chimp design template that you can use or edit to include what you want displayed.
*|RSS:POSTS|*
You might also be interested in our previous posts below
*|RSS:RECENT|*
Sharing is Loving
*|RSSITEM:SHARE:Twitter,Facebook,Linkedin,Pinterest,WhatsApp|*
*|END:RSSITEMS|*
See how mail-chimp displays the above code https://us20.campaign-archive.com/?u=61cb8c2e1dff4b3d3c746c04c&id=29046da882
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I am currently experiencing a problem with my google results. My meta description has been changed to characters I know nothing about for no reason. Normally here was the description that is on my home page, but that is suddenly gone. (see the screenshot for clarification).
I've tried a lot of things to adjust the meta description, but unfortunately I can't figure it out and this is a bad image for my company.
It concerns the website www.webrange.nl that I built with wordpress. Does anyone have any tips or maybe a way to solve this? So that the description returns to normal.
I have changed the description in the head of the website:
All-in webdevelopment
And also changed it with a seo plugin, and in the theme it self.
Description displayed on google results can be different from the meta description of your website for multiples reasons.
Google crawlers doesn't crawl websites everytime, there may be a delay of few hours to few days between your meta description modification and the moment when google update the description displayed on search results.
As we can see and your page, the meta description seems correct. It 's possible that you already fixed your problem but you'll have to wait for Google to update it on their side.
You can check google search console to force a new indexation of your page, or (re)send your xml sitemap. It can accelerate the process.
Also, keep in mind that Google can use an excerpt of your page content instead of your meta description if Google decides that the excerpt he found on your page is more relevant than your meta description, depending on keyword searched by the user. Example : You have a page talking about cars, and the user search for "engine" in google. If your meta description does not contain the word "engine" but your page content has a text containing it, there is high probability that Google display a description with an excerpt of that content instead of your meta description. It can be confusing
I googled and googled try to find something relevant but no luck.
I'm setting up a 'daily tips' campaign for a client and I have to use RSS to do it.
In more detail I use MailChimp and I create a RSS-Driven campaign.
On the other side in the blog of the website there are daily scheduled posts.
I'm trying to find a way to only get the first paragraph of the each post to give it to MailChimp and include it in the email.
So that the structure ends up like this:
Post title
Post's first paragraph
Read more link
Any ideas?
I don't think this is possible within Mailchimp directly, but you you might try FeedsAPI if you have a specific feed, even perfect if it's a not so popular feed since they can create specific extraction patterns for cases like this, it's however a paid service.
Our CMS uses permalink, for example this one:
www.kingmagazine.se/artiklar/king-kroner/20120713/10-korthallare
When a user is trying to share this URL by pasting it into the "update status" field on their Facebook homepage, Facebook seems to try fetch a different URL to get the open graph info, as illustrated in this image:
http://i.imgur.com/NjYM9.png
The page fetched seems to be an error message from the site. The image is not relevant to the article specified but rather contained in the footer of all pages.
However the CMS also has internal URL:s, such as this one (for the same article):
www.kingmagazine.se/artiklar/?id=152539
When sharing that one on Facebook, the correct data is fetched, as illustrated here:
http://i.imgur.com/wV5q3.png
I have tried digging in our server logs to no avail - it seems like Facebook is requesting the wrong URL and not the complete permalink. I have also tried the Facebook Lint but haven't found any reason.
Has anyone got any ideas?
Sorry for the garbled links but Stackoverflow spam prevention said max 2 links and no images. :(
Just wanted to get back to this question if anyone else has the same problem, as we eventually found the solution.
The reason of the faulty information on Facebook was that the editors in the CMS had a preview function which showed the article as rendered to the visitor. These pages (as they included the site header/footer) also contained Facebook like buttons through the Facebook social plugin.
This meant that Facebook was 'pinged' of the article before it was actually published as the editor was previewing the changes. When Facebook tried to fetch the article, an error message (with an incorrect HTTP status code I might add) was returned which Facebook then cached.
Silly enough. :)
I like giving my users the full text RSS feed, but I also have a few sites which pull the RSS feed and link to us from it. They want me to provide the excerpt/blurbs for the articles rather than the full text. Can anyone give me some direction on how to make this happen?
It should be possible. Wordpress has multiple feed types (see WordPress Feeds) and there are hooks for each feed type (see Feed Actions API). This suggests that you should be able to set up one feed type as a partial feed, and another as a full-text feed. Basically, you'd just be re-writing one of these feed types to ignore the setting you indicated on the "Reading Settings" admin screen.
I bet this could be done w/ a pretty simple plug-in.
I'm working on some RSS feeds for a custom task system we have. The main feed will show a list of tasks assigned to the current user. The link attribute for each task returned points to the web page for that task. However, tasks themselves have an RSS feed for updates, and I want to be able to provide a link for that RSS feed with the main feed as well. How can I do both?
The solution I'm thinking of right now is setting the article's title attribute to include an <a href="..." link to the actual article, and the it's link attribute to be a link to the feed (or vice versa). However, I'm not sure that will work well since most readers display the title as linking to the link (if that makes any sense to you).
Also, is this something that's supported natively by atom?
Make the content of each item in the original RSS feed HTML. (I believe you'll have to CDATA escape the block). Within this content put a hyperlink to the updates feed RSS.
Why not add it to the entry summary as links?