Featured Images use

Right now, it picks up the very first image in the content and if that’s not there it then looks to the enclosure to see if an image is there.

If there are words before the first image, it won’t pick up the image. This was made necessary because otherwise a lot of the images that would be picked up are advertisements.

Perhaps you could leave an example RSS feed where you are having this problem so I can see what’s going on.

Hi Allen, thanks for responding.

Yes, it was indeed text being before the image. Is there an easy way to change that functionality in the code, to use any image regardless if text before it?

Well, that would require having a rule of some sort, so one can write a program. It’s not clear what that rule would be without bringing in all types of potential problems. For example, would the first sentence always end in a period. Or maybe an exclamation point, etc Would you discard the first sentence, etc. this has to be clarified to make this possibly work.

Hi Allen,

I found a solution thats works great. I added this to my functions.php file…

//add post thumbnails to RSS images
function cwc_rss_post_thumbnail($content) {
    global $post;
    if(has_post_thumbnail($post->ID)) {
        $content = '<p>' . get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID) .
        '</p>' . get_the_excerpt();
    }

    return $content;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'cwc_rss_post_thumbnail');
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'cwc_rss_post_thumbnail');

This puts my post-thumbnail into the RSS feed, which crops images to a set height and width. I just had today a client add an image into a post with a size of 620 x 4477. Yes, 4,477 pixels high, an infographic. That was a disaster in the feed. This way, Im able to use WordPress’ built in cropping of featured images to throw into the feed.

Maybe there is some way you can add that to your plugin code as an option?

Thank you, your plugin works awesome now.

So, this is what you are using in the RSS feed for people to subscribe to from your site? If so, it’s straightforward, as your code shows to take something from wordpress and put it into a feed. The problem is the other way around, since the feeds that come in have no consistent structure, aside from the RSS tags. My plugin can easily get images that are in enclosures, and those that come first in the description and content tags, it gets tricky when the image comes after a bunch of text. Now, this isn’t a problem for someone who wants all the content in the tag (that’s why I have a “Give Me Everything” option), but that’s a dump of the entire contents, rather than nicely selecting the image and floating it to the left, etc.

Now, finally, if you’re going to input your own feeds onto your site, you have a lot more control, but this would simply require changing my code to know where the images are, etc.

Its not for people to subscribe to. Its actually to be an rss aggregate for the multisite blogs, and to then use the shortcode on the landing page to have 4 feeds combined as a portal page.

oh..interesting…people could actually use my plugin to combine the feeds from blogs and put on the first page (that’s how I’ve used it). Ok, let me see if it’s possible to do something…thanks

also, can you give me an example of an RSS feed that you know of that exemplify having the image after text so I can see if I can provide this option.

ok..I think i have a solution…are you interested in trying it out? I would send you a replacement for one file.

Sure. Sounds good

ok…contact me at

https://www.allenweiss.com/contact

and I’ll send you a replacement file that will pick up the first image it finds if it can’t find one in the enclosure or the leading image.

Thank you Allen for the wonderful work!

Hello Allen. I’m having the same “problem” that Greekdish was having. My thumbnails show up on the individual page FEEDS but it doesn’t show up on the home page. How did you resolve this?

Hello Greekdish where did you enter that code? I would like to try it out.I’m not as php savvy as you two but I learn quickly.

My blog is https://www.mobtreal.com

Thank you both for your time!
Cheers

Have you downloaded the most recent version (2.51)?

I just did. I clicked the download 2.51, extracted but how do I get it update on ,WP?