Featured images in RSS and MailChimp – HELP!

[theViatrix]

Hi all,

I'm having a heck of a time trying to get my featured images to show up in my RSS feed...I feel like I've tried everything! This came up because I wanted them to appear in MailChimp, but I noticed that they weren't showing up in my RSS feed either. I've created a custom feed, I've installed the WP RSS Images plugin... still not working.

BUT

when I checked out my RSS feed in a feed reader I noticed that featured images DO show up on older posts--ones posted before I installed Genesis (I was using a free WooTheme before).

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I'm not a developer/programmer so I'm getting frustrated!

Thank you so much in advance!

http://theviatrix.com

[Brad Dalton]

Here's 2 plugins which do the job or you can code it in your child themes functions.php file.

http://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-in-rss-feed/

http://wordpress.org/plugins/add-featured-image-to-rss-feed/

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[Brad Dalton]

Another option is to add PHP code to the end of your child themes functions.php file using a code editor.

This will work for your RSS feed but not MailChimp as you need to configure the MC settings for that.

Code not displaying? Grab it on Github.

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[theViatrix]

braddalton - thank you so much for your suggestions! Unfortunately, none of them seem to work 🙁 (at this point I'm just testing in my RSS feed as that seems to be the real problem). Any other ideas? Any idea why old, pre-Genesis posts show featured images and new ones don't?

[theViatrix]

Another thought:

I found this in my old theme's code; maybe I can adapt it to work here? I don't know PHP - what would I substitute for "woo"? (or does it even work like that?)

[theViatrix]

Sorry, trying to get the code in... it's here

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/03ba7b750ca618f353c1

[Brad Dalton]

I tested the code and it worked fine for me.

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[theViatrix]

Hmm... don't know why it isn't working for me! Makes me wonder if I've got some wonky code somewhere else or if there's a checkbox I missed...

[theViatrix]

I think I got it! I enabled featured images on content archives in my theme settings and that seems to have done it.

Thanks again braddalton for your suggestions!

[Brad Dalton]

On top of that Feedburner also caches feeds meaning you need to Ping Feedburner or wait 12-24 hours before it updates and your featured images display in your feed.

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