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Kees C. Bakker
Kees C. Bakker

Reputation: 33421

Put the title of the first post in the subject of a MailChimp RSS campaign

I'm using MailChimp and RSS to send emails from my blog. I would like to use the first post title as the subject of the RSS email. When I try to do this, I get the following error:

Message Subject*
De InterMission Uitdaging van vandaag: *|RSSITEMS:|**|RSSITEM:URL|**|END:RSSITEMS|* This field can not contain conditional merge tags

How do I do it correctly?

Upvotes: 22

Views: 4767

Answers (2)

Kees C. Bakker
Kees C. Bakker

Reputation: 33421

Ah, got it: *|RSSITEM:TITLE|* is actually sufficient.

Got it confirmed by the MailChimp people: https://longrep.ly/r/5e1ddb41.

Upvotes: 33

Jim
Jim

Reputation: 1

Indeed that doesn't work in a perfect way. It will prepends a "[test]" to your email subject. And according to mailChimp's helpdesk, this tag is not officially allowed to put in the subject. Only valid tags are: http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/merge-tag-cheatsheet-for-subject-lines/

Upvotes: 0

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