Optional Merge Field Truncation in FeedBolt
Ever find a text field to be too long? Perhaps you want to include the content from a post, but not ALL of it. Or perhaps a post title is too long. You can easily truncate a field by appending a length and a unit to the field name. Supported units are characters, words, and…
Date Formatting in FeedBolt
When you include a date merge field in your content, for example, the Publication Date of a post, you can customize the format. You will most likely choose a default date format under My Account, but if you need, you can further customize a date field in your email template. After inserting a date merge…
For How Long Does FeedBolt Keep Broadcast Data?
FeedBolt provides access to past broadcast data, including opens and clicks, for active FeedBolt accounts. Data Retention – or how far back this data goes – depends on the plan: Once an account is closed, this broadcast data will no longer be accessible. These limits are subject to change at any time without notice.
Setting Preview Text in Email Templates
Did you know that adding preview text to your emails can help to increase open rates? Preview text in your emails is what email clients show so readers know what’s inside their email beyond just the subject line that you set. (Gmail calls these “Snippets” !) Most email clients will use the first text found…
WP Fusion Auto-Login and Link Tracking with FeedBolt
If you’re using WP Fusion on your website, you can easily configure FeedBolt to auto-login your members or run CRM automation when someone clicks a link from FeedBolt. To start, you’ll want to make sure that you append your Keap Contact ID to each of your FeedBolt links. To do so, simply append ?cid=~Contact.Id to…
Keap Liquid Dynamic Content in FeedBolt Email Templates
FeedBolt supports Keap’s Dynamic Content in your blog broadcast email templates when you send your FeedBolt email broadcasts through Keap. (You likely are as this is the default way to send emails from FeedBolt.) Keap’s Dynamic Content blocks allow you to conditionally include variable content in your email broadcast based on contact data like field…
How do I Insert a Post Author’s Name into my FeedBolt Template?
To insert the name of a post’s author, use the ~RSS.AuthorNameX~ merge field where X is the number of the post with 1 being the most recent post, all the way up to 9 being the 9th most recent post. For example, to insert the name of your most recent post’s author, use the merge…
No feed available, please visit our homepage?
Are you seeing a “No feed available, please visit our homepage” message when you try and pull up your site’s feed? WordPress will serve that error message up when feeds are disabled, typically by a plugin you installed. Memberium, for example, disables your RSS feeds by default, so if you have Memberium installed, you’ll want…
Setting Your Timezone in FeedBolt
Configuring your Timezone under My Account allows you to specify what timezone we should use when determining the day and time for your feeds to check. Each of your feeds can then be individually configured to automatically check on the days you select and during the time range you specify. The default timezone until you…
Can FeedBolt Broadcast using my Email Service Provider?
By default, FeedBolt will mail your latest blog content out through your Keap or Infusionsoft app. But, if you’d like more control over your Email Deliverability, you can also configure FeedBolt to send through your own Email Service Provider (ESP) like SendGrid or SparkPost. With Integrations enabled, simply choose which ESP you’d like to add…