Available On: Blog Premier Plan
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 New updates are available for any blog on our Blog Premier 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. When you are ready to publish or schedule a post, click "Publish" or "Schedule".
- For Published Posts - You will see the option to send out a breaking news email after the post is published or scheduled. Once you publish the post, you will see an option to send an email right now. Click send, and the email will go through in 10 minutes or less.
- For Scheduled Posts - After you've scheduled your post, it will be queued to send an email at the scheduled publishing time by default. You'll also see a Do not send an email notification for this post button appear after scheduling. Click this if you don't want an email to be sent after scheduling.
3. If you've published a blog post but opted out of sending the email, you can go back and send a campaign at a later date. When you're ready, set the post status to Draft, then change it back to Published and click the Send button.
Preview a Breaking News Campaign
You can send a preview of a campaign to multiple email addresses. First, in your blog post, scroll down 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.