Use RSS Header Content Blocks in the Classic Builder

The RSS Header content block allows you to easily pull information from your RSS feed into your RSS email. Use in combination with the RSS Items block to automatically bring feed content, like blog posts, into your email layout. Based on the send options you set for your RSS email, we'll send out emails with new content as posts are added and the feed is updated.

In this article, you'll learn how to use RSS Header content blocks in the classic builder.

Before you start

Here are some things to know before you begin this process.

• This article tells you how to use RSS content blocks for the classic builder. For more information on the new builder, check out Design an Email with the New Builder.
• The RSS Header content block, along with the RSS Items content block, is only available in RSS emails. To add a blog post to a regular email, use a feedblock merge tag.

For more information on each email builder and their content blocks, check out About Mailchimp’s Email Builders.

Add RSS Header content blocks to your email

To add an RSS Header block, follow these steps.

1. In the email builder, click and drag the RSS Header block into your layout.
   
2. On the Content tab, choose the style from the RSS Header Style drop-down menu. To edit the content within the RSS Header block, choose Custom.
   
   Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced pull in preset RSS merge tags. Select show the markup to see the code that creates the preset content. This code cannot be edited, but it can be copied and pasted into a custom-coded template, or into the source code of a Text or Boxed Text block.
3. Change Styles or select Save & Close if you're done editing the content block.

Edit style

To edit the style for an RSS Header content block, follow these steps.

1. In your layout, click the RSS Header block you want to work with.
2. Click the Styles tab to set styles for the text, including font color, type, size and weight, line height, and text alignment. To apply the style to all RSS Header blocks in your email, check the box next to Apply to all existing RSS Header blocks.
3. Click Save & Close.