Add images to RSS Feeds

This could be due to a number of things. The site in question might not allow external sites to display their images. Were all web sites whose RSS feed you were displaying doing this, or only some of them.

I see you have turned off the RSS feature. This makes it difficult to troubleshoot what might be happening. If your site is live, you could always make a hidden page with a second library, and turn on RSS on that second library.

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Yannick Lefebvre wrote:

This could be due to a number of things. The site in question might not allow external sites to display their images. Were all web sites whose RSS feed you were displaying doing this, or only some of them.
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Actually, the RSS from the plugin is not showing the images in the RSS feed itself. It only has the links without images or the table.

See here:

https://www.vernonwebsites.com/feed/linklibraryfeed?settingsset=1
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I see you have turned off the RSS feature. This makes it difficult to troubleshoot what might be happening. If your site is live, you could always make a hidden page with a second library, and turn on RSS on that second library.

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Nope, the RSS is on. You can see the page on the other site that has the RSS linked to it here:

https://www.watersoftbc.com/business-links/

If you are not in the US or Canada you may not see these pages due to country blocking. If you are not seeing them, let me know which country you are in and I can open it up so you can see.

Thanks again for your input/help.

Mike

Oh, I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about the feature to display another’s site’s RSS items after the link on your site, not about the RSS feed generated by your links page. I will investigate.

To be sure, would you expect the images to be part of the RSS items main body of text? Or would you expect them to be embedded enclosures?

I have been reading up on images in RSS last night and see a few ways to do this.

Thanks for the reply again.

I did some reading and it appears that if you use embedded enclosures it only shows a link to the image? I was hoping there might be some way to have the RSS send out the table code and images shown just as they are on my links page… Image on the left, linked title on the right… (All images can be just loaded from my site as fed.)

So any other site I add the RSS to, it will look the same as my links page, just on other sites. This would be a great feature for those like me who may want to add the same links page to multiple sites… for a links exchange group etc..

Thanks again!

Well, the whole purpose of RSS is to send individual items, in an XML format, and ordered by date of publication, so that the reader application can format it as it wants. So it does not really make sense to try to format the output to replicate a page.

So what do you think the best way to do this is then? (To have all the sites in my group show the same links page)

Thank you for letting me pick your brain! haha

I can see a few ways to do this, but none perfect:

– Enter links manually across each site
– Use a tool like MainWP to enter links on each site from one central interface
– Enter links in one site, then export list of links as CSV and import that file into your other sites. Existing links will be updated.