Here is brief description of the features recently added to Digesto.

It’s now possible to inject a “featured” image from your feed into your Digesto emails.

There are three different ways to achieve this:

1) Images are already part of your content

Feed Requirement: Image included in your feed, either within the short abstract (<description> element) element or full article (<content:encoded> element).

If images are already part of the element that you pass in your email, i.e. within the short abstract (<description> element) element or full article (<content:encoded> element), you're in luck: there is no need for any further tricks - images will be displayed in your email automatically. Just make sure to format it properly (read on below for more details).

2) Extract the first image from your article

Feed Requirement: Image included in your feed, either within the short abstract (<description> element) element or full article (<content:encoded> element).

If images are already showing up in your Digesto email, but are populated in the short abstract (<description> element) element or full article (<content:encoded> element) - whichever one you are not currently using in your email - we can also extract it for you. Using the {{ITEM-FIRSTPOSTIMAGE-URL}} token in your Digesto template (see instructions in the "Choose to remove or add new article elements" section below) will extract the url of the first image available - whether the image is in the short abstract or in the full article - and make it available for you to use in your Digest template.

You can use this method to add an image to your email if you did not initially populate, or you can pull out an existing image and isolate it to better control it’s positioning and formatting.

Here is an example that will also link the image to the article (using the ‘first post image” method):

<!-- BEGIN IMAGE CODE --> <a href="{{ITEM-LINK}}”><img alt="" onerror="this.style.display = "none" src="{{ITEM-FIRSTPOSTIMAGE-URL}}" width="100%"></a><!-- END IMAGE CODE -->

3) Use Image Enclosures

Feed Requirements: Image URL is enclosed within the <enclosure> element.

Using {{enclosure:image}} the Digesto token will pull the image enclosure URL - and make it available for you to use in your Digest template.

Here is an example of code that will also link the image to the article (using the "encolsure” method):

<!-- BEGIN IMAGE CODE --> <a href="{{ITEM-LINK}}”><img alt="" onerror="this.style.display = none" src="{{ITEM-IMAGE-URL}}" width="100%"></a><!-- END IMAGE CODE -->

Some of you may prefer to send full blog articles as opposed to a short abstract in your Digesto emails. Although this was achievable through using external tools such as Yahoo! Pipe, now you can do this directly from your Digest Layout template using the method described below.
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In our previous release, we added the ability to control each element of your feed. We have now added six new elements and provided a pull-down menu to chose from so you can now:

Insert additional elements in your feed:

Here's how it works: To add elements, go to your Digest. Position the cursor on your template and use the:

icon to select and add new elements from the list.
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To delete or edit elements simply select the element and edit/move/delete it.

With the new elements added, we are now giving you eleven elements to choose from when designing your Digest template:
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IMPORTANT!: before you attempt to use these elements, make sure they are populated in your RSS/Atom feed. Digesto has no control over your feed output.

With the click of a button, add Social share links, including Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook. Choose from five built-in icon sets or use your own icons.

Use the My Account section to update your account details and password.