Solved How Do I Add Subscribers To My Blog and notify them with an RSS feed?
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Using the MyBR Blog page on the website, is there a built-in way to add subscribers, AND to notify them by email when a new blog post is made?
- Jenny
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I think you could possibly use the Contact Form to add subscribers. Just be aware that according to GDPR rules, you have to make it very clear that by submitting their email address they will be receiving “regular” emails from you (not just one). As far as sending out the email, you probably need an email provider service for that, and you’d probably have to do it manually each time you put a new post up. I don’t think MyVR has an automated message triggered by a blog post being published. I’ll be interested to see if they have anything to add to this.
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@ann-karako - My blog is currently on WordPress with a MailChimp RSS feed. Just wondering if there is a way to get that same signup form here?
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@jenny-oest Oh, OK. On MailChimp there is a way to build forms. You can get the html for the form and add it to the MyVR website. (Go to Signup Forms and then Embedded Forms.) But that will only collect email addresses, not automatically send something when you publish a post.
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Sorry, I forgot about your RSS feed. I didn’t know MailChimp had that option, but an RSS feed should then send an email to anyone who has subscribed to it when there is a new post. So maybe it will do that for you. I’ll have to look into that.
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Oh, I see it now. Lookee here! https://mailchimp.com/help/share-your-blog-posts-with-mailchimp/ So then, you can add the subscribers from the embedded form to the list that gets the automated emails, and that should work. Let me know!
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@ann-karako - got it - I was able to create a separate page in my website, using the same HMTL code I used from Mail Chimp for the sign up form. It will maintain the same mailing list and RSS feed I had before.
Now I just need to figure out how to draw attention to it from within my blog posts… Thanks!
Jenny
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I would put the signup form on the blog posts. Or do you have a sidebar? That would be a good place – you can use html in a widget.
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@ann-karako - I’m using the MyVR format instead of the WordPress format, so I don’t know yet how that will transfer…but I’m about to find out!
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@ann-karako - yes those imports do work
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Not sure what you mean by using the MyVR format instead of the WP one, but you can edit the MyVR blog page by finding it under website/pages and then adding an html block at the top, if you want to put a signup form there. Woot! I’ll be doing something similar soon, then!
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@ann-karako - looks like the missing piece I still have is the RSS feed. I need to get an RSS feed from the MyVR feed as I had from the Wordpress site. I don’t know if using the URL+“/feed” will do the trick.
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Ah. Well, I guess you can do that manually. Getting the subscribers is the important part.
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@ann-karako - for now, yes, but I think I may have to just manually send the email update after posting instead of automating it.
