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…
Free Up Feeds with Archiving
If you’re no longer using a feed, you can now archive it to free up an available feed in your account. Simply click the red Archive button on the bottom of your feed, confirm you want to archive it, and away it goes. No data is lost, but we will no longer check the feed,…
Improved Click Tracking
Exporting the “clicks” report of all clicks in a broadcast now includes the IP address of the visitor. This data is available for all historical clicks, too. This is helpful if you want to review all clicks and remove certain IP addresses from your click data with ease. Improved internal click monitoring and handling. Commit #28f25fc
Next Check Date Live Updates
The date that a feed will next check is now live updated as changes are made to a feed. So, for example, if you change the time window, frequency of checks, or days of the week, the next check date will automatically update so you can see when we’ll next check your feed. In addition, if…
Day of the Week Scheduling and API Error Checking
In this latest update, FeedBolt now supports day of the week scheduling so you can set which days you want your feeds checked. For example, you can set FeedBolt to just check on Mondays, or perhaps only on Wednesdays and Fridays, or just Monday through Friday, whatever fits your schedule and your audience. Secondly, if…
Improved Character Set Encoding Conversion and Error Handling
In this minor back end update, we’ve improved error reporting when sending email previews so that you can now see why an email preview didn’t send if there was an error. Error logging has also been updated on the back end both when converting feed and template character sets and when sending broadcasts. We’ve now…
Broadcast Stats, Graphs, and Exporting
We’re super excited to share that all of your broadcast stats are now available for you to use in many more ways than just seeing how many opens and clicks a given broadcast has. Clicking on a Broadcast in your Send History will now display the first 7 days of open and click stats in…
Email Previews, Logging, and Latest 9 Posts
A minor bug was resolved where the new Send Preview functionality would on occasion request a preview to be sent multiple times. We now only request the preview to be sent once. In addition, we now log all email preview sends internally to improve internal support of our customers. Lastly, you can now merge fields…
Improved Feed Errors and First Feed Entry
We now better check for and report RSS errors so you’ll know if your feed is invalid and why. For example, if the feed isn’t readable, has invalid XML, or is on an invalid hostname, we now say so instead of just reporting the generic error of it being an invalid feed. For new users,…