News, Memento and RSS feed

Description

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The "Feeds" block

The "News, Memento and RSS feed" plugin displays a list of events, news or articles from:

Note: Unless you chose to freeze the content (see below),the events that are shown in the newsletter are updated from the feed dynamically every 5 minutes. The items that will be shown in the newsletter are thus those present in the feed at the moment the newsletter is sent. Keep this in mind if you schedule your campaign to be sent in the future.

 

 

Editing the block

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Edit the News, Memento and RSS feed plugin

  1. Source URL (required): In the case of an EPFL Memento or News feed, please paste the URL of the actual Memento or News page (e.g. https://memento.epfl.ch/ic/). For generic RSS feeds, simply paste its URL.
  2. Number of items (required): limits the number of items from the feed that are shown in the newsletter. In case of a Memento feed, it'll be the N upcoming events. In case of an RSS feed, it'll take the N latest published articles.
  3. Content language: Some of the items in Memento and EPFL News feeds are translated. If you specify a language here, only items in the given language will be displayed. If you leave this field blank, items in the language of the newsletter will be displayed. Note that sometimes authors of Memento and EPFL News fail to translate content, or tag items with the wrong content language.
  4. Freeze content: the default behavior of this plugin is to display dynamic content from the source feed: each time the newsletter is rendered (when e.g. the newsletter is being edited, or when a campaign based off of this newsletter is being sent) the feed is getting fetched and so the items being displayed get updated dynamically. If you check the "freeze content" checkbox, the contents will be downloaded and saved as child plugins inside instances of News block plugins. If you do so, you can then edit these child plugins and modify their content, delete them, reorder them, or even add additional News Block plugins under this plugin. 

    To switch back to dynamic content, simply uncheck the freeze content checkbox and save the plugin. All New block child plugins will then be deleted and the plugin will go back to rendering dynamic content.
  5. Include images: In the case of a Memento or News feed only, display the thumbnail from the event or article with each item. You can choose to display the images as small thumbnails next to the title and content, as large full-width images (on desktop) above the title, or not to display an image at all.
  6. Display article dates: when they are published by the source feed, include start- and end-dates, publication dates and venue information
  7. Display article contents: when they are published by the source feed, include an excerpt of 160 characters with each item
  8. Start date / End date: use these date pickers to limit the items to only include those published after or before these dates, respectively.
  9. Memento categories: when rendering a Memento feed, limit items to those of the checked categories. Leave blank not to filter any categories.