How Do I Change my Blog RSS Feed in Weekly Email

Hey Taylor, 

Thanks for the reassurance that ‘split’ works. That wasn’t my question, but happy someone made an effort to reply. 

What I was looking for was something to replace the ‘slice filter’ all-together. I was looking for more of a date filter (filtering by my article pubDate) that would only pull recent blog articles. 

I never found anything to solve for this in Klaviyo, so instead, I created a new Blog template in Shopify from these instructions. The template is essentially an RSS feed. I tailored it to only show articles from the past 7 days.

So my emails are now showing all articles in the new RSS feed, but my custom RSS feed only pulls articles from the last 7 days. 

Side note for anyone who wants to try this: It also solves for featured image missing from Shopify’s out-of-the-box .atom rss feed -- you must create a new template in Shopify, don’t change your existing template, it will mess with the way your blog looks on Shopify/your site.

After creating the new template throw this at the end of your normal blog url ‘?view=NAME-OF-TEMPLATE’ (if you follow the instructions from the url above exactly, you’ll add ‘?view=feed’ at the end of your normal blog url ex. ‘https://yoursite.com/blogs/my-blog?view=feed’), add this url to your Klaviyo Data Feeds (no .xml or .atom suffix) and it will pull in the RSS. 

To show only the last 7 days of articles in the new Shopify blog template, I added the following code just after the {% for article… %} section of the new template:

  {% assign article_created_at = article.created_at | date: '%s' %}
{% assign time_ago = 'now' | date: '%s' | minus: article_created_at | divided_by: 86400 %}

{% if time_ago < 7 %}

Then closed out the if with {% endif%} just before the {% endfor %}

Hope this helps someone else!