Are.na integration support

Embed Are.na channels in your emails

Buttondown makes it fun and easy to share your moodboards and inspiration with your audience. Paste the link to an Are.na channel into the body of your email, and Buttondown turns it into an embed.

Share your newsletters automatically

Buttondown lets you connect your Are.na account to your newsletter. This uses our automations feature to automatically share your newsletters to your Are.na channels.

Set up the Are.na integration

Here's how to connect your Are.na account to Buttondown:

1. In Buttondown, navigate to Settings and click Integrations.
2. Find the "Are.na" integration option and click Connect. Are.na opens.
3. Authorize Buttondown to post to your channels.

After you connect your Are.na account, a "Connected to Are.na" message displays on the Integrations page.

Share your newsletters to Are.na

To share your newsletters to Are.na, you can create an automation that posts your newsletters to an Are.na channel whenever you send them. To do this, use the template below:

Automatically post to Are.naWhen an email starts sending, post on Are.na.Use template

You can also set it up by hand:

1. Navigate to the Automations page and click New. The "New automation" panel opens.
2. (Optional) Give your automation a human-readable "Name."
3. Set the Trigger to when an email starts sending.
4. Set the Action to Create an Are.na post.
5. Enter your Are.na channel slug in the "Channel slug" field.
6. (Optional) Customize the message content. If you leave this blank, Buttondown will use the email content and URL.
7. Click Save changes.

To enable the new automation, either click Unpause in the automation panel, or click to enable the automation's toggle in the Automations page.