[My Crappy House]

Thank you, Laura! I really appreciate the feedback 🙂

[My Crappy House]

Sorry for the delay in my reply. I missed the email notifying me of your response.

Thank you for the information. There’s so many opinions and rumors out there, it’s hard to know what’s true and what isn’t. I definitely do have cheap hosting, so I’m sure that’s a major reason why my site is slow and I’m currently working on optimizing my images.

Thank you for the links. I will check out the page speed suggestions and I think I’ll give Elementor a go and see what that’s about. I really appreciate your response 🙂

[My Crappy House]

Hello,

I believe I have solved this myself by utilizing the manual excerpt field when writing my post. I’d always left that blank before and MailChimp would pull the first couple of sentences from my blog post content for my automatic emails. To solve my issue, I just need to write custom excerpts, which I actually like better than before. I can write a little blurb to try to entice people to click through. I appreciate your time. I hope this maybe helps someone else.

Thank you 🙂

[My Crappy House]

Yikes. I thought I could copy and paste the text from MailChimp. Here’s a screenshot of what I was trying to show you.

[My Crappy House]

Hello,

Please see screenshots attached of what an email looked like before Ashe and after Ashe. I didn’t change anything in MailChimp. My email blast has this command to pull the content excerpt from my RSS feed:

*|RSSITEM:CONTENT|*

And MailChimp describes that as:
<p style=”margin: 1.875rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: #403b3b; font-family: ‘Graphik Web’, ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;”>Related RSS tag: <description> nested in <item></p>
<p style=”margin: 1.875rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: #403b3b; font-family: ‘Graphik Web’, ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;”>What it displays: A summary of the RSS item in HTML format, which includes information inside the <description> tag. If there is no <description> tag in your feed, Mailchimp will display the information in the <content:encoded> tag</p>
So is there no <description> tag in my feed now that I’m using Ashe Pro? I’ve never utilized the “excerpt” box when writing posts. If I put something in that box, will it grab that instead of the entire post content?

The photo size also changed dramatically, as you can see in the screenshot. It used to be the same width as my logo and now, not so much. I can live with that, but I can’t have my whole post content showing up in my emails. Not only is it a really unpleasant reading experience, but people no longer have to click through to my blog to read it.

For reference, this is the link to my latest post – the one in problem email. https://mycrappyhouse.com/building-a-shed-on-a-budget/

Thanks so much.

[My Crappy House]

Success! Thank you so much!

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