Put the title of the first post in the subject of a MailChimp RSS campaign

Question

I'm using MailChimp and RSS to send emails from my blog. I would like to use the first post title as the subject of the RSS email. When I try to do this, I get the following error:

Message Subject*
De InterMission Uitdaging van vandaag: *|RSSITEMS:|**|RSSITEM:URL|**|END:RSSITEMS|* This field can not contain conditional merge tags

How do I do it correctly?

Wait, mailchimp and that sort of stuff is considered on-topic at StackOverflow? — Ethan, Jul 19 '17 at 09:43

Kees C. Bakker · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-30T09:06:26.860

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Ah, got it: *|RSSITEM:TITLE|* is actually sufficient.

Got it confirmed by the MailChimp people: https://longrep.ly/r/5e1ddb41.

edited May 30 '12 at 09:06

answered May 17 '12 at 12:07

Kees C. Bakker

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Don't forget to accept your own answer if it's the one to solve the issue – random May 27 '12 at 00:17
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The longrep.ly link is dead. – Honza Javorek Dec 28 '22 at 14:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 29 '12 at 22:53

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Indeed that doesn't work in a perfect way. It will prepends a "[test]" to your email subject. And according to mailChimp's helpdesk, this tag is not officially allowed to put in the subject. Only valid tags are: http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/merge-tag-cheatsheet-for-subject-lines/

answered May 29 '12 at 22:53

Jim

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Hey Jim, thanks for the answer. It seems that they now support the `*|RSSITEM:TITLE|*` as well. Check the long reply of MailChimp in my answer. – Kees C. Bakker May 30 '12 at 09:10

Put the title of the first post in the subject of a MailChimp RSS campaign

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