Use your RSS feed to create a campaign with one click – magnews Help Center

Do you want to automate sending emails with the latest content from your site or blog? With magnews, you can use an RSS feed to generate and send automatic and updated communications easily and quickly. In this guide, you will discover how to integrate your RSS feed into the magnews platform to create dynamic email campaigns, save time, and keep your users always informed with fresh and relevant content.

Design

Choose the template Inspire, available in the standard library.

Styles

The communication inherits the styles from the brand kit. You will find pre-set logos, fonts, and color palettes. To modify them, click on the Styles icon; the section on the right will then appear, allowing you to adjust the various options (read the article Create a campaign via template for more details).

Insert articles

You can start creating your communication by customizing the existing section or adding a new section from the catalog by clicking the Add Section button.

From the catalog, click on the Dynamic Contents section and select the “Content” object, either single-column or multi-column based on your preference.

Customize the object by clicking the edit icon.

In the Layout tab, you can modify the structure of the object by changing, for example, the column proportions, text color, background color, or in the Columns options you can modify the behavior and appearance of individual columns.

Click on the Contents tab; by default, enable the option Connect to Content Library.

You can insert articles:

from articles previously created directly on the platform
from an RSS feed
articles created today
trending articles

RSS feed

Select the RSS feed option
Click the Add button
Enter the URL of your RSS feed
Select whether or not to retain the HTML of the feed
Enter the number of articles
Click the View button
Select the articles you want to include
Click the Import button

In the settings section, you will see all previously selected articles.

You can edit each article by clicking the edit icon next to the desired article.

This way, you can personalize/modify/shorten various article attributes such as the title, description, image, and add a tag.

Click the Save button.

Note: In design mode, it's normal not to see the inserted content, only the placeholder. To verify, view in preview mode.

Insert previously created articles

You can insert articles previously created at both the journey and global levels; if you want to import articles you wish to reuse in different campaigns, it is advisable to create them at the global level:

Create the content

Follow the path Journey Lab > Libraries > Content or if you want each article to be visible only for the journey's communications, follow the path

Journey Lab > Journey List > [Journey Name] > Library >> Content

In the example, Travel is the name of my journey.

Click on the content item and then the New Content button.

Select the type

Complete your article and click the Create Article button. You can also add a Tag to each article, which you can use to filter the content for the newsletter.

Insert the content

Choose a section from the Dynamic Content category.
Edit the section settings by clicking the edit icon, as previously shown.
From the Contents tab, ensure that the Connect to content library option is enabled.
Choose the Article Selection option.
Select the Communication or Journey or Global repository, depending on where you created them.
Optionally, Filter the content.

Select the articles to include and click the Add button.

Save the section settings.

Articles created today

Insert articles from the journey library created/imported today with a publication date of less than a week. They are sorted by descending publication date.

Preview

To ensure everything is set up correctly, click the Preview button.