I’m a bit stumped by this. I’ve installed and configured the plugin correctly - I think.
When I send a test message, it sends me the latest blog post from my RSS feed.
I set the campaign live yesterday. It’s set to repeat every hour.
Today a blog post was published at 12:30 - but no email was sent. The only error is “There are no feed items that will be included in the first campaign”
@edent The plugin will select items published based on the campaign repeat interval and embargo time.
In the case of the screenshot, the embargo is 14:00 and the repeat interval is one hour which means only items published between 13:00 and 14:00 will be selected. The information message is just saying that there aren’t any items meeting that condition.
The item published at 12:30 would have been included in the campaign with embargo of 13:00 if it had existed at that time.
If you change the campaign, or create a new campaign, to repeat each day at say 18:00 then the item published at 12:30 should be included.
@edent I don’t understand your change. Is the campaign still repeating hourly or was that changed to daily?
Either way, it will not be sent at 12:30 when you publish a new post. It will be sent at the embargo time.
Ensure that you are fetching the feed items prior to phplist processing the queue. Use a cron job to do both of these.
@edent Repeating hourly or daily are equally valid. It just depends on how short an interval you want between publishing a post and it being sent out in a phplist campaign.
Repeating hourly will give the shortest interval. Sometimes people want to send their campaigns later in the day or maybe first thing in the morning, so having a daily repeat would apply in those cases.
Your screenshot showed the campaign repeating hourly on the hour. If you publish a new blog post at 12:30 today, and the plugin is run to fetch the feed items after that time but before 13:00 , then when phplist processes the queue after 13:00 it should send the campaign with the blog post included.
The phplist event log should be showing messages about “embargo advanced for rss message” for each run when there are no feed items to send.
This still isn’t working - and I would really appreciate some help.
I can manually send emails to subscribers. So I know my email set up is working.
The RSS updates every hour, at 36 minutes past. phpList is showing new items in the feed.
That’s controlled by a cronjob of: php /newsletter/admin/index.php -p get -m RssFeedPlugin -c /newsletter/config/config.php
My campaign is queued with these options:
Embargoed until 2024-10-26 13:00
Stop sending after 2025-04-22 01:41
Repeating every hour until 2034-10-18 11:00
I have a cronjob to process the queue at 40 minutes past the hour: php -q /newsletter/admin/index.php -p processqueue -c /newsletter/config/config.php >/dev/null
If I run that manually after the RSS has updated, I get “Finished, Nothing to do”.
So, now I’m stuck. I can manually send emails. My RSS feed is updating. I have a campaign in the queue. The queue is being processed.
But campaign emails with a new RSS item aren’t being sent. I’ve read through the documentation for the plugin and phpList, but I’m obviously missing something basic. Any help?
@edent Send me a private message with the access details for your phplist and I will take a look.
I did subscribe to your newsletter and received an email on Monday at 13:41 “WordPress - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”, so I assumed that it was working. You should not have had to change anything after then.
The important factor is the publication date/time. As you are repeating every hour then the publication time needs to be within the previous hour. It would be safer to repeat daily because then the plugin will select items published in the previous 24 hours.
