Test Post Two: The Top Story
This second stand-in post plays the role of the month’s Feature. Because the newsletter lists posts newest first, publishing this one last should put it at the top of the email. This tests the ordering, and whether a different category and a different image come through cleanly. If this post appears above Test Post One in your inbox, the publish order works the way the checklist says it should.
Test Post One: Checking the Feed
This is a stand-in post for testing how blog content flows into an email newsletter. It checks whether the title, author, excerpt, featured image and link come through the RSS feed and land where they should in the template. The wording here doesn’t matter. What matters is how long it runs, how it wraps on a phone screen, and whether the “Read more” button links back to the full post. If you can read this in your inbox, the feed is working.
