TheSupercargo

OK. No one’s offered any comment and I’m still looking. I found this thread from 3 years back:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/thumbnailsfeatured-images-in-rss-feed-in-30?replies=15

Rev.Voodoo‘s code – put into the originating site theme’s functions.php – works in the sense that it gets the RssFeedWidget to show a thumbnail. But it doesn’t alter the behaviour of either Jetpack’s Display WordPress Posts widget or the Super RSS Reader widget.

I’ll leave this as ‘unresolved’ and won’t change the reference page at https://360.thesupercargo.com/home-2/ for a week longer.

For anyone interested, Rev.Voodoo’s code is:

// THIS INCLUDES THE THUMBNAIL IN OUR RSS FEED
function insertThumbnailRSS($content) {
global $post;
if ( has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) ){
$content = '' . get_the_post_thumbnail( $post->ID, 'thumbnail' ) . '' . $content;
}
return $content;
}

add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'insertThumbnailRSS');
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'insertThumbnailRSS');

Same problem. Right sidebar set as the site wide default, also specifically on static Front Page. There are widgets in the sidebar, but the bar doesn’t appear to the right of the slider or featured posts. It appears BELOW the featured posts.

No active plugins.

Running the latest version of WP and the latest version of Customizr.

https://nixon-wit.com

Many thanks, Jeremy. That seems to have solved the problem!

Dear Jaroat/Johannes,

Thanks for finally responding to this thread.

I appreciate that you created YAPB for love not money and that, like many another plug-in author, you don’t make enough from it to offer fulltime support. It’s a shame, because it’s a really good plug-in… when it works.

Having looked at it for over a year I was pleased to be able to install it on my new photoblog, and for the six weeks that it worked I was delighted with it. But I don’t have the knowledge of programming to fix problems when they arise, and I don’t have the time or interest to search for solution by trial and error.

If you’d responded within the first two or three weeks – if only to say you could see there was a problem and you were looking into it – I might have hung on. But without that encouragement, and with my blog looking worse and worse I decided to abandon YAPB.

I bought the Photocrati theme package and have now migrated all my pictures to that. Photocrati is not free and it does not do all the things YAPB does, nor is it without its problems. But all my questions have been swiftly met and all my problems have been solved within 24 hours of arising. Since completing the migration I’ve felt free to focus on my photography. It was worth the expense.

If you had offered a ‘pro’ version of YAPB at a comparable price I would have bought it.

As it is, I wish you (and everyone else who sticks with it) good luck with YAPB. I’m going to mark this topic as resolved now. If anyone wishes to continue the debate they can start a new thread.

With best regards from G?teborg and gbg365.thesupercargo.com,
John

Very disappointed not to have received any response from the plugin creator. Even a word to say he was aware of the problem but unavoidably prevented from working on it yet.

And now, as anandsharmav notes, the new version of WP has compounded the problem with multiple unwanted versions of the image before the post.

I’ve given up on YaPB and am migrating away from it.

I’ve switched to using a Photocrati theme because it is much quicker loading than the other themes I’ve tried, but YaPB is still broken. The 1.10.9 upgrade has not helped.

Thanks for this tip lcsci.

I’ve tried it out, and as you say it gives a more gentle fade. It still doesn’t do quite what I want – there’s a still a moment between slides when there’s nothing on the screen – but esthetically it’s certainly better than the fast blink.

Cheers!

I suspect this has to do with slow loading speeds and possibly a conflict with my theme rather than a problem with YaPB. I withdraw the question.

I’m surprised no one else is having this same problem. I’ve now tested YaPB with four other photoblog themes with exactly the same result.
My theme is Eclipse Pro, but YaPB is broken also with Autofocus, Picture Perfect, Modularity Lite and even Grain.

I also have this question.

Thanks carolemagouirk.
That works beautifully.

Thanks for this jhdemicco!
It works and is a neat improvement to this already very nice slider.

I do apologise! You’re quite right.

Seems I’ve been mixing up WP.com and WP.org for months, wondering why the old password doesn’t work and resetting for a new one without thinking that they are two different sites.

Jetpack working now.

Sorry. I can’t be doing with this plugin. I’ve removed it from my site and I’m going to mark it as ‘broken’.

OK This isn’t a problem. I still don’t know what that error message menat, but as soon as I checked the boxes for some of the Exif data the error message disappeared. Exifography’s working fine (though I can’t get it to generate maps and am using another plug-in for that).