Displaying the author and category of articles

Overview

Displaying the author and category commonly features in newsletters and allows readers to quickly understand the topic of the content and who it was written by.

This document explains how:

How to configure your newsletter to display the author and category
How to style the elements

RSS feed

In order to display the category and author for an article your RSS feed will need to include those elements. It should look similar to the below:

How to configure your newsletter to display the author and category

To configure your newsletter to display the author and category values, navigate to the Content Settings of your campaign.

Click on the 3-dot menu for an article block and select 'Article Styling'.

Within this menu, click on the 'Order' tab. This lists all the elements you can display and allows you to drag and drop each element to rearrange the order.

Toggle on the category and author items to display them.

How to style the elements

Navigate to the 'Author' and 'Category' tabs. Here you can modify the styling controls to manipulate how the author and category values will display.

Click 'Save' to verify your changes in the newsletter preview (see below).

Testing with a draft newsletter

Once your configuration is complete, navigate back to the Campaign dashboard by clicking 'Done' and click 'Create' to create a draft newsletter.

This will pull through the category and author values from the feed and display them in the draft newsletter.