Digest emails

Loveshack sends each subscriber a digest of new stream items on the schedule they chose, rendered through the theme's own HTML email layout.

Notification intervals

Subscribers pick one of four intervals on their settings screen:

Interval	Sends
Instant	As soon as the next processing run finds new content
Daily	Once per day
Weekly	Once per week
Monthly	Once per month

How processing works

A WP-Cron event, lss_process_subscriber_digests, runs every ten minutes. On each run, for every confirmed subscriber, Loveshack:

1. Checks whether their chosen interval is due.
2. Queries stream items published since their last successful send, by post_date_gmt.
3. Filters those posts through the same gated-content access checks used by the private feed, so a subscriber only ever sees what their tier allows.
4. Renders the accessible posts newest first and sends the email.
5. Stores the send time in the user meta key lss_digest_last_sent_gmt.

No content means no email

If a subscriber's interval is due but there are no accessible new posts, no email is sent and their last-sent timestamp is left unchanged. The next run reconsiders the same window, so nothing is skipped — subscribers simply never receive an empty digest.

The timestamp is only advanced after a successful send. A delivery failure does not consume the window.

Branding

The digest header is configured in the Customizer's E-Mails → Header section — avatar, site title, tagline, social links, and title/tagline overrides specific to email. See Header and social links. The subject, preview text, an optional intro, and the button label are edited under E-Mails → Post digest. See Email templates.

Both HTML and plain-text variants are rendered, so clients that reject HTML still get readable mail.

Delivery

Sending goes through wp_mail(). That means the transport is whatever the site configures — Loveshack does not talk to an email API directly. FluentSMTP is recommended and detected in the Subscribers settings. See Email delivery.

Test emails

Loveshack includes a test-email path so you can verify rendering and delivery without waiting for a scheduled run or publishing a post.

The Send test email button in the Customizer's E-Mails → Post digest section sends the digest with your three latest stream posts and your unpublished changes. See Email templates.

Requirements checklist

For digests to arrive at all:

• A working mail transport is configured
• The sender address is on the site's domain
• Server cron is triggering due WP-Cron events — see Cron
• Subscribers are confirmed, not merely registered
• There is accessible new content in their window

Related

• Cron
• Gated content

Post cards follow the stream

Each post card in a digest is built the way its stream card is. The teaser is rendered by the same helper, so Markdown comes through as formatted text and the cut-off follows the post type's free teaser length from the Customizer. The post type pill, and any pill a plugin adds such as the Update API's Latest badge, sits under the date when Display post type pill is on for that post type. The plain-text alternative keeps a short text-only excerpt.