Images don't show in feed

Are the image sources correct, or are they not showing? The RSS feed is just a raw code output by default, although if you use a service like Feedburner, I don’t think you can actually see the raw code.

This plugin replaces the image source files and modifies how images are output, but if you want to see the actual images, you need to see the parsed/pretty/graphic feed, either in an email campaign or a feed reader.

If you want to share a link to your feed, I would be happy to double check what’s being output.

The image sources are correct they just don’t show. I used a chrome extension to pretty up the feed but I don’t believe that is the issue as I ise the alt email feed for a mailchimp campaign and images don’t show up there either.

Rss is: https://www.locksandtrinkets.com/feed/

Thanks for your help.

Both feeds look correct to me. I checked in feedly and a test campaign in MailChimp. It looks to me like you’ve set the RSS image size at 375, and the images come through at that size in feedly and MailChimp. I think your images are coming through fine.

However, it does look like there is some kind of conflict with the “shop the look” script at the end of each post, though, which is breaking the feed output before the end of the post. The script has a loading image that is being affected by the plugin and somehow it’s breaking the end of the post in the feed. I’m going to think on this and see if I can come up with a solution on that. I’d like to get back to you on it, if I may.

Please do. Code that ignores scripts would be great! Thanks.

Well, the plugin should ignore the scripts–I had to do some work about how to run the content through the plugin so that the forms plugin I personally use, for example, wouldn’t break (initially, the feed died a spectacularly bloody death), due to embedding scripts in the content feed. So the script itself should be OK, but depending on how it’s handled, it may not be something I can account for.

I believe I’ve corrected the obvious issue which I saw, although I am not sure that it will fix the premature shutdown. Would you be willing to test it for me, before I push it to the repo? If you can, the updated code is on my GH repo. The only code changes are in /includes/class-sendimagesrss-feed-fixer.php. I’ve already uploaded it to my own site and all is well.

If you can do that and let me know so I can recheck the feed, I would very much appreciate it. Is the “shop the look” a plugin, I am guessing?

alright I changed that file.

I checked your alternate (email) feed in MailChimp and the script is now working–the Shop the Look lines show, and now come through in the email.

For some reason, though, they don’t appear in my feed reader, but since you are using the alternate feed, I think you’re OK there for now as I continue to dig. The main feed works, which is what feed readers will use, and the alternate feed works in emails, which is why it exists.

So I think you are good to go! Thanks.

Yeah, I appreciate that, however I’m looking for the images to work. In my RSS extension in Chrome, the images still don’t show. I put the feed url into feedly and they show there, but when looking at it through mailchimp, I still don’t see the images.

I looked it up through mailchimp and I saw something that said images could break if the tag <media:content> isn’t used. Could that be the issue? Thanks

I have run a test campaign in MailChimp with your email feed and the images came through fine for me. May I ask what’s in your MailChimp email template? I’ve posted an example on github of one I use as a starting point.

I ask because there are several merge tags for content, but the only one which will output the images as well as the text into MailChimp is *|RSSITEM:CONTENT_FULL|*. So can you verify that this is the merge tag you are using in MailChimp, please?

I read a bit about <media:content> on MailChimp’s site and from what I can tell, that’s something needed if you are using enclosure tags, or need to flag an image as a featured image. This isn’t something which is part of a standard WordPress feed; this plugin does not do anything which would add or remove a tag like that.