Show_images doesn′t work

It seems to me there′s no support at all for this plugin. =(

Hey @abewert2023 sorry for not seeing these! One would think that being the plugin develop it would automatically subscribe me to all forum notifications! But it does not. I just so happened to look at this page because I am working on a new version with more features and saw your issue.

So without having the RSS feed url to investigate I can’t really help out. Would you be able to paste the RSS feed in here and I could look at it? Have you looked through the feed source to see that the images are actually being included?

Hi Matt,

at first many thanks for your response.

Please try this link:

https://test.aktienbewertung.de/feed/?category_not_in=-36

The link currently doesn′t include the show_images line but if I add it then the result is the same as without. There are 3 images in this post but almost all readers I tried didn′t show them and I do not understand why.

Would be great if you could give me a hint.

Kind regards

Marc

@abewert2023 so this is because you need to have your images on HTTPS. 99.9% of the sites you are going to goto are under SSL and when they try to load your images, it will block them because of insecure content. See https://s3.amazonaws.com/pramadillo/pramadillo-2023-02-01-14-48-32.jpg

@mattpramschufer: Many thanks. This was already very helpful but I have to admit that I do not completely understand what you mean if you say “you need to have your images on HTTPS”.

Is it a format issue? What do I need to do to have my images on https?

KR

Marc

No your website where you are hosting your images needs to be https. I.E.

https://test.aktienbewertung.de/ and not https://test.aktienbewertung.de/

So your images can be accessed via https://test.aktienbewertung.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Glaxo-1.png and not https://test.aktienbewertung.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Glaxo-1.png

Contact your website host and have them implement an SSL certificate.

@mattpramschufer : Many thanks Matt. Now I got it. I know they are implementing an SSL certificate currently and then the issue will be solved I guess.

Is there also a possibilty to control which pictures shall be included with your plugin?

When you use the ?show_images=true that pulls the featured image into the RSS feed for you.

Hi Matt,

after moving to our Live-Domain with https included all images are available in our RSS-Feed but I identified yet some other issues.

Our posts do include more than one image and the title image is included in three different sizes for different purposes on our website. Furthermore there is at least one further image included in every post and this is also causing issues. That′s why I have the following questions:

1. How can I exclude specific images from the feed? I thought about putting the superfluous images in between specific tag id′s and then use the tag_not_in query. Do you think this is an adequate solution or do you see another solution?
2. Another question comes along with the first one. Your example for the tag_not_in query shows numbers as tag id′s but I cannot identify any tag id′s in my xml. There are only tag names. How can I exclude tags from the post if I do not have tag id′s?
3. How can I adapt the size of the second image included? It seems that all queries you offer to adjust the image size do only have an impact on the first image included in the post.

Would be great if you could help me to find solutions to those issues because the RSS-Feed is very important for our website.

Kind regards,

Marc

Marc,

Let me jump right in.

1.) My plugin only adds in ONE image which is the featured image to your RSS feed if you include the ?show_images parameter. If there is more images in your feed then you are either A.) outputting the full content of your post in your RSS feed, thus it is pulling in those images from the post content. B.) You have another plugin which is already adding images to your RSS feed.

2.) All tags/taxonomies have IDs, you would need to look at Admin->Posts->Tags then edit a tag and look in the URL and you will see the Tag ID. For the tag_not_in param, that utilized the tag__not__in parameter for the WP Query which does not allow for slugs, only IDs.

3.) That is correct, my plugin only adds and edits the FEATURED image to the RSS feed as that is not natively added. Any other images you have in your feed did not come from my plugin, but see A or B from 1 above.

Hope that helps!