Since this plugin is no longer supported does anyone know of a replacement? The plugin has been working for me, but it hasn’t been updated in many years. I am concerned that something will go wrong and I would like to replace it.

Thanks!

Pat

Hi there,

I have managed to get the image to show using the merge tag *|RSSITEM:IMAGE|* which is great news. But for some reason it does bring in a load of extar unanted code. Does anyone know how I can remove that? the extra code is below
” target=”_blank” style=”mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #0d5c99;font-weight: bold;text-decoration: none;”>

My campaign is here

https://us18.campaign-archive.com/?u=c2bb92ad062a706115b7c3857&id=51d156e123&e=

Mailchimp sends your campaign only if your feeds are validating. They do not tell you this in any clear way. The campaign says sending, even though it is not.

Make sure you validate your feeds!

This plugin adds height=”auto” which is not allowed in the new HTML5 feed validator: https://validator.w3.org/feed/

Height need to be a positive integer.

I changed height and width to my featured image size 675 px and 12000px on line 48 in the plugin’s php file.

Now it validates.

I just updated my site – realsimplegood.com to the new version of wordpress. Prior to the upgrade, I was using this plugin to add an image into my mailchimp RSS driven email campaign. It was working fine but today it didn’t work. Any ideas?

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/mb-imagechimp-rss-feed-enhancer/

Any suggestions on how to select different image sizes for different feeds? This post was helpful, in that I was able to select a custom image size for the overall feed. But I’d like to select a different image size for a custom feed I’ve created (feed-custom.php). Any suggestions?

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/mb-imagechimp-rss-feed-enhancer/

Hello! Thank you for this plugin. I installed the plugin, updated my recent post, purged from cache, but the images are not appearing in my mailchimp campaign. Can you suggest something else to troubleshoot?

Thank you!

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/mb-imagechimp-rss-feed-enhancer/

Firstly this is a great plugin. I used some plugins earlier, they were appending the image tag in the contents section. This plugin does this correctly by adding a new content tag.

I need some help and guidance here. I now want to add price also to the feed. That way in my newsletter I will have the image and price together for the product. Can someone help me here

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/mb-imagechimp-rss-feed-enhancer/

Just a note for others who might be curious about using custom sized images.

My ‘large’ image size is set to 1024px wide and my email template is 600px wide and with some padding my image size at full width (not mobile version) is 564px wide.

I didn’t like the thought of having to load a large sized image into an email when it was nearly twice as large in both resolution and file size. To modify this plugin for my needs here is what I did:

First I used the function add_image_size to create a custom sized image I wanted to use just for my RSS MailChimp feed (this goes in your themes functions.php file):

/* MailChimp RSS Feed Image Size */
if ( function_exists( 'add_image_size' ) ) {
	add_image_size( 'mailchimp_featured', 564, 250, true ); //564 pixels wide 200px tall, hard cropped
}

You can obviously set the image size to whatever you need in the function above. Whenever you use the add_image_size function you’ll probably have to regenerate your thumbnails for old images. New images will automatically get resized to this new size but if you have issues with image already uploaded not showing up when you’re testing this is probably the issue you’re running into. Just search the plugins directory for “regenerate thumbnails” and there will be many options to use.

Then you just need to edit the ImageChimp file (mb-imagechimp-feed-enhancer.php) file on line 69 (as of time of writing this).

Where it has this:

$img_attr 	= wp_get_attachment_image_src( $img_id, apply_filters('mb_rss_extend_item_media_image_size','large') );

Replace it with this:

$img_attr 	= wp_get_attachment_image_src( $img_id, apply_filters('mb_rss_extend_item_media_image_size','mailchimp_featured') );

Or replace the word “large” with the name of the image size you created with the function you place in your functions.php file.

It might be beneficial to add a settings page to this plugin allowing users to set what image size they want the image used on the feed to be or allowing them to set a custom size directly via the plugin.

Just thought somebody else might find this helpful.

-GB

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/mb-imagechimp-rss-feed-enhancer/

First of all, thanks for a very useful plugin! It works great with my MailChimp campaigns. My question is concerning the image height parameter. According to feedvalidator.org, the image height must be a positive integer. “auto” fails validation (although it works great with MailChimp). I’ve tried setting the height to “1” but that causes problems with certain clients (most notably AOL, Thunderbird, Gmail, and Outlook 2007-2013). I’ve also tried suppressing the height parameter altogether. This validates, but the above clients display a distorted image that has been stretched vertically to some standard height.

Is it possible to have the plugin discover the height of each image and insert that into the RSS feed? Unfortunately, the height of my images varies.

Thanks!
Tony

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/mb-imagechimp-rss-feed-enhancer/