Gary Jones

Robin Cornett

<p><em>Send Images to RSS</em> bridges the gap between large websites and small emails, by replacing images in your feed with smaller, email friendly images, and attempting to add markup which email clients can handle.</p>
<p>Between larger monitors, retina screens, and better image optimization, the images we serve up on our websites are larger than they’ve ever been. RSS to email services such as MailChimp, however, are constrained to what email clients can display, which is small, small, small. And although it’s possible to try to style images with a max-width in your emails, not all clients will honor it (I’m looking at you, Outlook).</p>
<p><em>Send Images to RSS</em> makes it easy to create beautiful, email friendly RSS campaigns, with minimal setup required, regardless of your feed setup.</p>
<h4>Full Text RSS Feeds</h4>
<p>If your site’s RSS feed is set to Full Text, this plugin makes sure your emails look more like your website:</p>
<ul>
<li>Replace overly large images with email friendly size images.</li>
<li>Convert galleries from thumbnails to full width images.</li>
<li>Add email friendly styling/alignment to your images.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Summary Text Feeds</h4>
<p>If you’ve used Summaries as your RSS feed settings, this plugin has not been for you. <em>Until now.</em> As of 3.0.0, Send Images to RSS brings the awesome to you, too. Here’s the magic for your Summary feed:</p>
<ul>
<li>Add the post’s featured image to your excerpt. Choose the size and alignment. If no featured image is set, the plugin will use the first image uploaded to the post.</li>
<li>Set a custom length for your RSS summary/excerpt. Pick the number of words you want your summary to have, and the plugin will aim for that, but with the added bonus of making sure the final sentence is complete.</li>
<li>If you add a manual excerpt to your post, because you like to have full control, the plugin will properly use that instead.</li>
<li>Automatically add a custom “read more” link to the end of every post summary, to keep your feed pointed back to your site.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Known (non)Issues</h4>
<p>This plugin should work with any theme. Some themes and plugins do modify the feed for their own purposes. Where possible, I’ve tried to account for them:</p>
<ul>
<li>For summary feeds, the <em>Yoast SEO</em> RSS link is removed (the full text feed and front end output are not changed).</li>
<li>For summary feeds, the excerpt filter added by the <em>Woo Canvas</em> theme is removed (the full text feed and front end output are not changed).</li>
<li>For summary feeds, this plugin will replace the image settings for <em>Display Featured Image for Genesis</em> for versions 2.3.0 and later (because this plugin is smarter). If you’re using <em>Display Featured Image for Genesis</em> 2.2.2 or lower, this plugin will concede graciously. But you should update, please.</li>
<li>For full text feeds, this plugin will not duplicate featured images if they are being added by <em>Display Featured Image for Genesis</em>–you will want to disable that feature in <em>Display Featured Image for Genesis</em>.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>NOTE: it is up to you to check that your feed output is still working, especially in your email system of choice, once it’s installed.</strong> I’ve attempted to set it up to handle XHTML or HTML5, and function even if your feed is wonky, but <strong>please</strong> double check, and let me know if you have issues, and if so, what specifically they are.</p>
<h4>Props</h4>
<p>Special thanks to <a href="https://gretchenlouise.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gretchen Louise</a> for her summary feed contributions.</p>
<p>Spanish translation offered by <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Web Hosting Hub</a></p>


Send Images to RSS

Improve your RSS: for full text feeds, replace large site images with email friendly images. Customize summaries with images and beautiful excerpts.

Mailchimp

ryanhungate

<p>Join the 17 million customers who use Mailchimp, the world’s largest marketing automation platform, to develop their e-commerce marketing strategy. With the official Mailchimp for WooCommerce integration, your customers and their purchase data are automatically synced with your Mailchimp account, making it easy to send targeted campaigns, automatically follow up with customers post-purchase, recommend products, recover abandoned carts, and measure the ROI of your marketing efforts. And it’s completely free.</p>
<h3>What you can do with this plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li>Sync to your Audience in Mailchimp with purchase data.</li>
<li>Sync new subscribers to your Audience when they create an account and opt-in.</li>
<li>Set up marketing automations to remind customers about items they left in their cart or viewed on your site, win back lapsed customers, and follow up post-purchase. (Now available for free accounts!)</li>
<li>Showcase product recommendations.</li>
<li>Track and segment customers based on purchase history and purchase frequency.</li>
<li>View detailed data on your marketing performance in your Mailchimp Dashboard.</li>
<li>Find new customers, connect with current ones, and drive them all to your website with <a href="https://mailchimp.com/features/facebook-ads/" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://mailchimp.com/features/instagram-ads/" rel="nofollow ugc">Instagram</a> ads. Then, set up <a href="https://mailchimp.com/features/google-remarketing-ads/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google remarketing</a> ads to turn your site visitors into shoppers.</li>
<li>Automatically embed a pop-up form that converts your website visitors to subscribers.</li>
<li>Add discount codes created in WooCommerce to your emails and automations with a Promo Code content block</li>
<li>Create beautiful landing pages that make it easy to highlight your products, promote a sale or giveaway, and grow your audience.</li>
<li>This plugin is <a href="https://wpml.org/plugin/mailchimp-for-woocommerce/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML compatible</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Important Notes</h3>
<p>This plugin supports our most powerful API 3.0 features, and is intended for users who have not yet integrated their WooCommerce stores with Mailchimp.<br />
You can run this new integration at the same time as your current WooCommerce integration for Mailchimp. However, data from the older integration will display separately in subscriber profiles, and can’t be used with e-commerce features that require API 3.0.<br />
WordPress.com compatibility is limited to Business tier users only.</p>


Mailchimp for WooCommerce

Very basic plugin. If your needs are little, it works fine. But if you want to segment based on orders your customers made, you can only segment on basic things like product purchased, purchase date, store ordered from, etc. You can nog segment on product variations or SKUs.

No support for product variations


Good for me, and I translated in Japanese.


Good


This is the second time this plugin has collapsed my server. The first time was during a sync, and now, after archiving a large contact list in Mailchimp, the plugin started receiving an overwhelming number of requests, maxing out my server's CPU at 100%. This made my website nearly unusable and caused significant downtime.



Take care with this this plugin, it could cause serious performance problems.


Severe Performance Issues – Has collapsed my server twice

Connect your store to your Mailchimp audience to track sales, create targeted emails, send abandoned cart emails, and more.

Send Images to RSS vs Mailchimp for WooCommerce