{"id":1434514,"date":"2018-01-24T05:04:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/rss-and-mailchimp-automation\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T05:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:04:30","slug":"rss-and-mailchimp-automation","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/rss-and-mailchimp-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS and Mailchimp automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RSS for Events Calendar is built such that  tag includes the start date of the event.<br \/>\nObviously these dates are in the future&#8230;<br \/>\nThis interferes with MailChimp&#8217;s automation ability to verify if there are new items in the feed and ends up sending out emails for all future events regardless of new events added to the list or not.<\/p>\n<p>Can you help me figure out how to customize the feed so that the event date is included in the desription and the  is the actual date the post was published?<br \/>\nThe ordering of the events would have to be by event date and not &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Is this even possible?<\/p>\n<p>I read these, but I&#8217;m not a programmer so I don&#8217;t know how to change this to what I need&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/events-rss-feed\/<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/customize-rss-feed\/<\/p>\n<p>========================<br \/>\nPLEASE LEAVE FOR SUPPORT<br \/>\nReporting the same issue as:\u00a0https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/mailchimp-integration-email-events\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1434514","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>RSS and Mailchimp automation -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/rss-and-mailchimp-automation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RSS and Mailchimp automation -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The RSS for Events Calendar is built such that tag includes the start date of the event. 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