Title: Send automatic weekly emails
Last modified: August 31, 2016
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# Send automatic weekly emails
* [peucaio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peucaio/)
* (@peucaio)
* [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/send-automatic-weekly-emails/)
* Hi Benchmark team,
* I know I can send individual posts directly, but is it possible to send weekly
emails with a list of all posts written in the past week? It’s much less intrusive
then sending every single post.
* If yes, how to configure that?
If no, is there a way to customize that with
your team? Even if it costs something?
* Thanks,
Pedro
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/benchmark-email-lite/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/benchmark-email-lite/)
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* Plugin Author [Sean Conklin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seanconklin/)
* (@seanconklin)
* [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/send-automatic-weekly-emails/#post-7150535)
* Hi peucaio,
* That’s an excellent feature idea. We don’t currently have it, but I see this
as a fairly quick and useful add-on. Here’s an idea we could work on over the
next several weeks:
* – Admin area section titles “Schedule Regular Post Updates”
– Select WP Cron
schedule [Off, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly] – Select list(s), set title, from
name, etc. – Select WP post categories to use – No ability to send test email
yet (must set a test contact list initially)
* Let us know how that plan sounds…
* No charge as this is for Benchmark’s WordPress customers and we are an Affiliate
Partner.
* Thanks,
Sean
* Thread Starter [peucaio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peucaio/)
* (@peucaio)
* [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/send-automatic-weekly-emails/#post-7150548)
* Hi Sean,
* Thanks for the quick answer. I thought of it because I have a client, a Benchmark
customer, who prefers to send weekly e-mails rather than bothering her users
with single e-mails. This would also increase pageviews on her website, as the
user won’t read the full article inside the e-mail (which is fairly uncommon
based on my experience).
* I thought of developing a custom function for her, but it would be expensive
and too much time consuming, since I haven’t study the plugin code yet.
* I agree with your scope! I would just add that the templating system needs to
be adapted too, to include more formatting options for the “posts loop”, like
grabbing title, permaling, excerpt and featured image. Something like:
* ```
%POSTS_LOOP_START%
%POST_TITLE%
%POST_EXCERPT%.
%POSTS_LOOP_END
```
* Just a mockup, you’ll probably have better ideas on how to work with this.
* Thanks,
Pedro
* Thread Starter [peucaio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peucaio/)
* (@peucaio)
* [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/send-automatic-weekly-emails/#post-7150623)
* Hi Sean,
Any news on that? Let’s keep discussing this feature 🙂
* Thanks,
Pedro
* Plugin Author [Sean Conklin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seanconklin/)
* (@seanconklin)
* [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/send-automatic-weekly-emails/#post-7150626)
* Hi Pedro,
* It turns out this feature is already built into Benchmark Email via their user
interface. See the following link for configuring the campaign:
* [https://ui.benchmarkemail.com/help-FAQ/answer/how-do-i-create-an-rss-to-email-campaign](https://ui.benchmarkemail.com/help-FAQ/answer/how-do-i-create-an-rss-to-email-campaign)
* You will need your WordPress RSS URL. This can be the built in feed or use a
plugin to provide more specific feeds for this usage.
* We may still add this feature so it’s built into the WP plugin, but this should
help you out in the short term 🙂
* Thread Starter [peucaio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peucaio/)
* (@peucaio)
* [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/send-automatic-weekly-emails/#post-7150633)
* Great Sean, I’m trying to configure it but it’s giving me an RSS error.
When
I say the RSS feed URL ([http://andrezadicaeindicadisney.com.br/feed](http://andrezadicaeindicadisney.com.br/feed)),
it doesn’t recognize as a valid RSS, I don’t know why, asI it’s being generated
automatically by WordPress.
* Thanks,
Pedrio
* Plugin Author [Sean Conklin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seanconklin/)
* (@seanconklin)
* [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/send-automatic-weekly-emails/#post-7150634)
* Hi Pedro,
* The RSS feed URL you are putting in looks correct to me. Are you getting any
specific error from it that might narrow it down?
* On their instructions, they indicate you can contact Benchmark Email support
for assistance since that is a core Benchmark Email feature not specific to our
WP Plugin but available for any RSS service. They might know of a trick with
the latest WP RSS native feed and is worth a shot.
* Alternatively, you could install a free feed burner plugin that generates an
alternative feed URL to try out.
* I’ll ask my colleague Randy to run through those RSS instructions and see if
he can figure out any tricks to get it to work. I plan to work on the plugin
this weekend and will let you know about your other question soon…
* Thanks,
Sean
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