Hi there,
Our website, The Berkeley Observer (berkeleyobserver.com), partners with Newsbreak for syndication. The platform pulls our stories from our RSS feed.
This is our Newsbreak page: https://www.newsbreak.com/m/the-berkeley-observer-563020-articles
The problem is that when Newsbreak pulls in our articles, it NEVER includes the featured image/main image from The Berkeley Observer website to accompany the headline.
As a result, our articles appear on the Newsbreak site without an image and just the headline, which is not very appealing to readers.
Because Newsbreak hasn’t been using the first image of the story (our featured image), we have been FORCED to insert a second generic image into the article to avoid our Newsbreak feed from showing only a headline. We would rather NOT do that because we could use that image placeholder for an ad spot – and more than anything we really don’t like throwing in a second random image half the time.
This is what Newsbreak support told me when I brought the issue up with them:
“NewsBreak ingests content exactly as it appears in the RSS feed provided by the publisher. If the featured image is not being consistently pulled in, it is usually related to how the image is defined within the RSS feed itself.”
Can you guys offer an easy solution to this problem? I just want our featured image for our stories on The Berkeley Observer website to also be the SAME featured image pulled into Newsbreak.
Thank you for any help!
Nikki
Actually, I partially solved my problem. I came across this site that showed a work around:
https://woorkup.com/show-featured-image-wordpress-rss-feed/
However, now that the featured image is showing, I just wish it would include the text under the featured image as displayed on The Berkeley Observer website.
Hi,
So the main part of the problem is solved, the feed from your website contains the images now. I would have suggested the same solution, either with a code or with a plugin.
But I’m not sure about the caption of the image. First you should ask them if they are willing to display it, or if they can display it.
If they are, then it could be included in the feed. But either with a code or with a plugin. This plugin for example https://wordpress.org/plugins/rss-chimp/ specifies that it includes the image and also the title and description of the image https://prnt.sc/MyQOvM3RxNbC If it does that, then you could replace your current solution with this one.
Thank you!
