Plugin just installed, not working with Feedly

Hi Chris,

I see the images in your feed, but it’s pretty messy, with Jetpack’s Photon URLs, and the responsive sizes added, and weird meta-data:

I see Feedly’s webfeedsFeaturedVisual in the CSS as well… but Feedly has it’s own image rules:

“Here are the set of rules we use to pick the featured visual:

If the content of the story in the feed has an img element with a webfeedsFeaturedVisual classname, that image will be selected as the featured image.

If the first img in the story has a height and width greater than 450 pixels, that first image will be selected as the featured image. If not, Feedly will try to pick the largest image in the story.”

So maybe if the image is too small it ignores the webfeedsFeaturedVisual classname anyway?

TL;DR: Try using and outputting images that are wider than 450px, and see if that helps.

Ah that image was supposed to show the code:

<img width="300" height="150" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.chrismacleavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WednesdaysTrial8.png?fit=300%2C150" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.chrismacleavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WednesdaysTrial8.png?w=1200 1200w, https://i0.wp.com/www.chrismacleavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WednesdaysTrial8.png?resize=300%2C150 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.chrismacleavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WednesdaysTrial8.png?resize=768%2C384 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.chrismacleavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WednesdaysTrial8.png?resize=1024%2C512 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-attachment-id="575" data-permalink="https://www.chrismacleavy.com/wednesdaystrial8/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.chrismacleavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WednesdaysTrial8.png?fit=1200%2C600" data-orig-size="1200,600" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="WednesdaysTrial8" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.chrismacleavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WednesdaysTrial8.png?fit=300%2C150" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.chrismacleavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WednesdaysTrial8.png?fit=1024%2C512" />

Hi Rob, you’re right! There’s a lot of unnecessary junk in there! (I wish I knew how to clean it out…. a task for a later day perhaps).
The featured images used in my articles are 1200×600 (always), so perhaps I need to look for something else.
I left it overnight to see if something needed some time to “take”, but my feedly still has a lack of featuredimages, and still only grabs the images from within the post (if there’s one to grab).
More research required :-/

Ah yep but see how it’s outputting the 300px image first:

https://i0.wp.com/www.chrismacleavy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WednesdaysTrial8.png?fit=300%2C150

I’d try turning off Photon first… then retry the feed, and see if the size is better. If not, check the size in the plugin’s drop-down, change it to Full, and try viewing the feed again.

Let me know if that helps or not.

Thanks Rob!
I think we might be making progress. Here’s what I’ve done.
– I turned off Photon
– I changed the size to Full in the plugin
– I regenerated all the thumbnails
– I opened feedly.com and checked the feed (showing all posts)

Feedly doesn’t appear any differently to me, but perhaps you can see something different?

It’s looking much better to me… but Feedly has cached some of the feed images it seems.

If I view this feed in Feedly, it looks great, and it’s freshly loaded, so all the images are showing ok:
https://www.chrismacleavy.com/category/christian-living/feed/

But if I view the main feed, then some posts of those posts are not showing images, I think because they are cached from being loaded before.

So, wait a bit and see if things clear out, or find a way for Feedly to clear the cache.

I tested that theory by viewing this feed:
https://www.chrismacleavy.com/feed/?nocache

with the ?nocache added which does nothing but is a unique URL that wouldn’t be cached…

https://feedly.com/i/subscription/feed/https://www.chrismacleavy.com/feed/?nocache

and it works great. ??

Rob

Hi Rob,

Looks like it’s working just fine!
Unfortunately it only applies to newly posted articles; the old stuff didn’t come through on Feedly, but I can live with that!

Thanks very much.
Happy ??

CM

Hi Chris,

Yeah new posts will be all good, and old posts are probably still cached by Feedly… and they keep it cached forever, but changing the RSS feed URL would force it to reload them all, per this link:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/feedly-cloud/3evZeYOnS2I

Also, if that’s the case, then perhaps slightly changing your permalinks would work as well… give that a try?

Rob