Idea for premium email template

[atwellpub]

Some people are going to want to have latest posts automatically listed in an email under the email content. One template we build could have a setting with the following options:

• post type select
• custom taxonomy (category or tag) select.
• number of posts to show
• show excerpt or no?
• show title or no?
• show featured image or no?

This could also be packaged as a short code inside core, but as a template feature we'd have more control over styling and it would distinguish the value of the template.

[DavidWells]

This will cause serious problems unless each email is designed with this repeating list in mind.

If we include, it would be a lot of extra work or be an unprofessional looking unordered list that people would probably complain about.

I don't think we should include this unless a substantial number of users request it

On Aug 7, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Hudson Atwell [email protected] wrote:

Some people are going to want to have latest posts automatically listed in an email under the email content. One template we build could have a setting with the following options:

post type select
custom taxonomy (category or tag) select.
number of posts to show
show excerpt or no?
show title or no?
show featured image or no?
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[atwellpub]

That's what I mean, we'd build a simple template that accounts for the styling and other developers can use it as a boiler plate for their custom designs.

I know we'd want it for our own product annoucements rather than using a repeater to setup our upsells in the bottom part of an announcement email.

The shortcode idea, I agree it would probably not work well with all the templates and should probably be avoided. Even though with the right responsive setup and a little custom css a shortcode render could go a long way for some.