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Automated Weekly Newsletter

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Prize: $100
Entries Received: 4
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Overview: Cal Coastal is a non-profit that provides a weekly newsletter of relevant articles posted on other websites. Content is curated throughout the week and added to the wordpress website using ‘Press this’ plugin.

Once weekly news is done being curated(typically every thursday night or early friday morning), the newsletter is drafted from a template on Constant Contact. The newsletter is comprised of 6 sections:

Coastal Commission News
Policy and Political
Drought Water & Wetland
Beach & Coastal
Local Gov
Climate Change & Environment.

The way I currently edit the weekly newsletter is as follows:

1) Open Constant contact and create a copy of the previous weeks template
2) Open all the pages on website that are related to Coastal Commission News(this section only has 1): https://calcoast.org/category/coastal-commission-news/
3) Count how many articles, x, have been posted since last weeks newsletter
4) Edit HTML to have ‘x’ amount of entires
5) Edit title, HREF, date of article and color of the tab for each article
6) Save and repeat with next section
7) Open all the pages on website that are related to Beach & Costal News(this section has 2) (https://calcoast.org/category/beach-news/) and (https://calcoast.org/category/coastal-news/) 8)Count how many articles have been posted during the past week, x=5
9) Edit HTML to have 5 entires
10) Edit title, HREF, date of article and color of the tab for each article
11) Move to next section....

This specific part of the process is cumbersome and tedious, usually requiring 2-3 hours of intense focus each week. I would like to find a way to automate this process.

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Public Clarification Board

sharvin26
- 6 years ago
Hey, I can provide you an automated way You just need to add content every week and it will manage automatically. I have provided same solution for ml-world.com .
- 6 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 6 years ago
  contact me
  - 6 years ago
Contest Holder
- 6 years ago
Not looking for any creative - I already have a template made through Constant Contact. I am seeking a way to automate the process.
- 6 years ago
developingzone
- 6 years ago
are you need just psd design or HTML newsletter
- 6 years ago