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Sure, it would be like the Appearance > Menu. Best way to do it imo.
Thanks for the answer!

Well, I’ve changed to:
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″>

And now it worked. Don’t know why, it wasn’t working!
So, the issue all this time was the charset. So lame. Sooooo lame.

Why does Benchmark make the e-mail blank when using ISO-8859-1 charset????

Well Randy, back to the subject.

I’ve updated my WordPress version to the latest and started testing again, noticing a very strange behaviour that could be the specific point on this.

I’ve tested sending the e-mail using a very simple template, simple html with the tags. It worked. I came back to my template, it doesn’t work. So the issue was on my code.

I’ve remade the template from scratch using one of Litmus responsive templates. It’s encoded in UTF-8, which made the whole post with weird characters. So I changed to ISO-8859-1 to work with latin characters, but didn’t work too.

So I made a change on the html head, added the line of code:
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1″>

Which is the reason that the emails were blank. The reason it wasn’t scheduling, keeping in draft. So, basically, the reason of all bugs.

Why is that happening? And how do I insert the ISO-8859-1 charset information on my html to work with latin characters?

I’m using OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 on Chrome Version 50.0.2661 to schedule. But I’ve also teste with Safari 9.1.1. Does the OS or the browser have any influence on that? Since it’s a server back-end routine.

Now nothing works anymore.
When I Send Test Email, it doesn’t work (it was working).
When I selected Send Immediately, it doesn’t work.
When I schedule, also doesn’t work.

But the problem is the same I stated: the e-mail is saved inside Benchmark, but stays in “Draft” mode. And it got even worst: when I visualize the e-mail, it has nothing, the template is not working. It’s like a blank e-mail.

Do you think the WordPress version have influence on that? Or the dev version I’m using of the plugin?

Hi Randy,
To continue this topic.

– The blog which I’m working is https://www.andrezadicaeindicadisney.com.br/
– WordPress 4.1.11
– Plugin Benchmark Email Lite Vers?o 2.6 [Development]

What I observed: I can schedule emails via WP interface (to grab template and post information), but when I log in inside Benchmark’s interface and to My Emails, the email is set to “Draft” and the schedule date is not recognized. Seems to be a failure between the schedule date setting inside WP and the schedule date on Benchmark.

Attached: print screen of Benchmark with all emails incorrectly set to Draft (Rascunho in portuguese).
https://postimg.org/image/5tv7z145t/

Thanks,
Pedro

Topic solved. ??

Hi Sean,
I’ve downloaded the last version and installed into the website I’m taking care.
It worked perfectly, I’m glad you accepted the suggestions and implemented with such speed.

One thing I’ve noticed, based on my experience with my server. I changed the template to include the new anchors, but while testing, 2 times the email came with nothing in it. The solution was to Flush Cache (I’m using Siteground’s managed server), or update cache in case you’re using any Caching System. Perhaps just a small note at the bottom of the templating page, saying “Please refresh your server cache after updating the template” can instruct users to do so.

Or maybe was just me ??
Anyway, thanks for the good work.

Pedro

Thanks Sean, I’ll test it!

But the date() function works inside the widget getting the specific city I want? Ex: my server is in Brazil, but I want to show the time and weather of California. I’ll test it later.

Great Sean, I’m trying to configure it but it’s giving me an RSS error.
When I say the RSS feed URL (https://andrezadicaeindicadisney.com.br/feed), it doesn’t recognize as a valid RSS, I don’t know why, asI it’s being generated automatically by WordPress.

Thanks,
Pedrio

Well, great! Perhaps it’s like a dog, when the owner looks he instantly disguises.

But it’s showing this error for a few days, sometimes it shows all of the information, sometimes it misses 1 or 2 cities. Something I did today is to clean the server cache, perhaps it was giving some conflict. If happens again, I’ll let you know.

Thanks!

Hi Sean,
Any news on that? Let’s keep discussing this feature ??

Thanks,
Pedro

Hi Sean,

Thanks for the quick answer. I thought of it because I have a client, a Benchmark customer, who prefers to send weekly e-mails rather than bothering her users with single e-mails. This would also increase pageviews on her website, as the user won’t read the full article inside the e-mail (which is fairly uncommon based on my experience).

I thought of developing a custom function for her, but it would be expensive and too much time consuming, since I haven’t study the plugin code yet.

I agree with your scope! I would just add that the templating system needs to be adapted too, to include more formatting options for the “posts loop”, like grabbing title, permaling, excerpt and featured image. Something like:

%POSTS_LOOP_START%
<a href="%POST_PERMALINK%"><b>%POST_TITLE%</b></a>
<br>
%POST_EXCERPT%.
%POSTS_LOOP_END

Just a mockup, you’ll probably have better ideas on how to work with this.

Thanks,
Pedro

Great, thanks for the tip.
Can I check where you used it?

Thanks JP!
Is it from the same developers?

Do I have the same set of options? Like choosing playlists, sidebar widget, embedding in page via shortcode etc?