Available On: Blackstone
Breaking News email campaigns are sent to subscribers within a few minutes after a post is published.
Add Breaking News campaigns to your site
Breaking News updates are available for any blog on our Blackstone plan. If you'd like to add Breaking News to your site, please submit a support request.
How Breaking News works
1. Create your blog post in the post editor, selecting the publish date, applicable post authors, images, etc., and save your finished post as a draft.
2. In the Post sidebar, find the Email Notification panel and use the Send Email Notification toggle to set whether this post should email subscribers. It's on by default.
3. When you click Publish (or Schedule), the pre-publish panel shows the Email Notification toggle again — your last chance to change it before confirming.
- For Published Posts — If Send Email Notification was on, the campaign goes out within a few minutes of publishing.
- For Scheduled Posts — If Send Email Notification was on when you scheduled the post, the campaign is queued to send at the scheduled publish time. The same toggle in the Post sidebar lets you opt out at any point before it publishes — its explanatory text updates to reflect the scheduled state.
4. If you published a post with Send Email Notification off and want to send the campaign later, set the post status to Draft, then change it back to Published with the toggle on.
Preview a Breaking News Campaign
You can send a preview of a campaign to multiple email addresses. Scroll down below the post content to the Breaking News Email Options box, enter the email addresses separated by a comma, then click Send Preview.
Viewing sent Breaking News campaigns
You can view sent Breaking News campaigns by clicking Email Notifications > Browse Campaigns.
Editing published posts
Unlike RSS-driven email campaigns, you can edit a published post without triggering a new campaign.
Troubleshooting
If a campaign doesn't send within 10 minutes of publication, unpublish the post and then publish it again. Check your sent campaigns to verify if the campaign went out. If not, open a support request.
If you are receiving an error when sending the Breaking News email and have already tried republishing the post, the next step is to try retyping the post title and/or excerpt from scratch. This is to ensure that hidden, invalid characters were not inserted into the post title by mistake.