Hi,
Can anyone recommend why the images aren’t showing in the RSS feed?
Thanks
Bill
Hi,
Unfortunately our theme does not provide any feed options as feeds are managed either by wordpress or plugins. We cannot say for sure why the images are not displaying. If you use a rss plugin, you can try to replace it and see if there is no compatibility issues with it. I cannot recommend any though as we have not tested any rss plugins.
Thanks.
I am also having this issue. It would be nice to be able to configure an RSS feed in to the theme.
Answer is actually very simple.
Images which don’t live ‘inside’ the post box (post meta) won’t show up in the RSS feed unless you make a custom feed template.
So, if your only image is outside the actual post, such as a giant size full width image or slider, that is not actually *in* the post itself.
You can test this by looking at your actual RSS feed, and see which have images and which don’t. This is why on some sites we use the theme template with *no* featured image and place our images in the story manually after first paragraph.
We ran into this on a couple of sites and solution was to make a custom RSS template, with a function to strip out all images in the feed, but then insert the featured image at top of the content. This way we always had ONE image in feed, featured image, and it was above the content in the feeds for posts.
There are many feed plugins available in the WordPress.org plugin repository (or ‘repo’) which allow you to customize or control your feeds if you don’t want to learn how to ‘hack’ a custom feed for your site.
If you ONLY use featured image templates (where the featured image is outside the post meta box) — you can likely add a function to functions.php to “insert” the featured image at start of the RSS feed ‘item’ but you’d likely need to find a tutorial online, or use a RSS feed plugin manager for that.
Hope that helped! And, welcome to WordPress! 🙂
