CIanLehrer Posted August 20, 2020 Share Posted August 20, 2020 Site URL: https://www.moonswordbooks.com/ I post lengthy (1000+ words) articles on my SquareSpace site weekly. I have it linked up to MailChimp so that when something new appears on the SquareSpace site, it gets emailed by MailChimp to the relevant audience, using the RSS feed system. This all works fine. In MailChimp, when you put the merge tage RSSITEM:CONTENT into the email structure, it's supposed to pick up an excerpt of the post, defaulting to 500 words. In fact, it just sends the whole thing, no matter how long. I have searched online and I am not the only person to have this problem, nor have I seen much indication that anyone's found much of a solution. While I work on that end of things, however, it seems to me that maybe I can resolve it on the SquareSpace end. In the Options pane for each post, I can create an excerpt manually. If I could send this through MailChimp, with their "read on..." link going back to the post itself, that'd solve my problems and be much more readable anyway. But MailChimp does not have--or doesn't indicate, anyway, an RSS merge tag that will pick up the Excerpt text from SquareSpace. Can anyone suggest some code which I can substitute for RSSITEM:CONTENT in MailChimp to pick up the Excerpt instead of the total body text? Thank you! Link to comment
KelliWhitehead Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 I am also struggling with the same issue and would appreciate any advice. Link to comment
HarmonyHunt Posted November 10, 2020 Share Posted November 10, 2020 I'm also seeing the same behavior. RSSITEM:CONTENT and RSSITEM:CONTENT_FULL both show the entire blog post despite the documentation saying that is not the intended behavior. Link to comment
myweekisbookedblog Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 same issue here too. Anyone figure it out? Link to comment
Em-BMB Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 I have that issue too, and it sounds like this should be submitted to Mailchimp. Link to comment
Amandaishere Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Anyone ever figure this out?? Link to comment
Collaborada Posted May 18, 2022 Share Posted May 18, 2022 Hello. Populate the SS excerpt field for the behavior you are describing. Building high-performance websites with expert SEO for local and national reach. Have an SEO question? Google to find our advice or book a Zoom session for tailored help. ★ Official Squarespace Experts since 2014 ★ Link to comment
PatrickJ Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 Having this problem as well! Anyone make any progress? Link to comment
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