Enabling your newsletter
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Visit Settings > Labs and switch on the Email newsletters link.
Sending a newsletter
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When publishing a new post, click Email this post as a newsletter before hitting the
Publish post button.
You can also send a newsletter from any posts that were published in the past week, but had not yet
been sent as a newsletter. To do this, edit the post and click
Email this post as a newsletter before hitting the Update button.
By default your newsletter will be sent with a reply-to address of your account email address.
If you’d like to use a different reply-to address, you can change it in
Dashboard > Newsletter > Customize your newsletter.
Where can my readers subscribe to my newsletter?
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Readers will find a subscription form at the bottom of every post.
A form is also at the bottom of your site’s blog index (found at your site’s /posts path).
If you are using Pika’s default home page, the form will be at the bottom of the page.
There is also a Pika variable to embed the subscription form anywhere you wish.
If you enter {{ newsletter_subscription_form }} on a blog post or page,
it will be replaced with the subscription form on your site.
When does a newsletter get sent?
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After publishing a post that has been set up to be sent as a newsletter,
the newsletter will be scheduled for sending about 15 minutes later.
On your Dashboard you can see newsletters
that have been scheduled to be sent and either send them immediately or cancel them.
Is there a limit on newsletter subscribers?
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Pika Pro accounts can have up to 1,000 verified newsletter subscribers.
If you need more than 1,000 subscribers,
contact us
and we’ll work with you to find a solution.
Can I add subscribers by importing email addresses from another system?
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Yes! Visit Dashboard > Newsletter
and click the three dots menu next to the Subscribers area of the page.
Any CSV file with a header of "email" or "email address" should work.
If the CSV also includes a "subscription date" or "subscribed_at" column, we will store that date as well.
You can also import a plain text file with one email per line.
We have tested importing the exports from a few major providers, but let us know if you have any problems.
Can export my subscriber email addresses?
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Yes! Visit Dashboard > Newsletter
and click the three dots menu next to the Subscribers area of the page.
The export will be a CSV file with two columns: email and subscribed_at.
Can I update a newsletter’s contents after it has been scheduled to be sent?
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Yes. Any updates that you make to the scheduled post before the newsletter is sent
will be reflected in the newsletter.
Can I send content in a newsletter that is different from its post?
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No. Our newsletter feature only supports sending the post’s content.
Do you support custom CSS for the newsletter?
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We are not offering the ability to customize the newsletter’s CSS.
We are doing the best that we can to make the newsletter look like your site,
though we also are not incorporating your site’s custom CSS in the newsletter’s design.
The world of designing for HTML email is very complicated.
Pika is primarily a web publishing platform, and we are doing our best to keep the
newsletter feature as simple as possible.