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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] Double image overnightYes look for other RSS plugins, some add images, ours gives you control over size, which is very important.
For example the Feedzy plugin has an option that you can uncheck.
Let me know if you need help working it out more.
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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] Double image overnightHi Ivan,
We received your email as well. I’ll reply here too for completeness. You should start your own thread, as other’s issues may not be the same as yours.
I’m not seeing two images in your feed at all. I went through the raw feed HTML, the Google RSS Chrome extension preview, and Feedly, and there are not duplicate images.
Looking at the Mailchimp URL, I do see an image tagged with our plugin’s CSS class name, and another image that is plain, tagged only with Mailchimp’s “mcRssImage” tag.
Can you send me your Mailchimp RSS template merge tags? You should be using only RSSITEM:Title, RSSITEM:Content or ContentFull, plus the starting and ending RSSITEMS tags around those.
The free version of our plugin doesn’t turn on Media Tag support because it’s more advanced to use properly, and so you should not be using RSSITEM:Image in your template.Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] Images don’t show up… yet?That one seems to be using media tags instead of the image being added to the description like the normal field… that may be caused by whatever plugin is generating that feed, it’s adding images in it’s own way perhaps. I don’t think our plugin is the one adding the image to that particular feed, but depending on the feed reader or service, it may still work, and many services use the media tag for images, some even require it.
Let me know if we can help further.
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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] Images don’t show up… yet?I’m seeing images in your raw feed’s HTML:
<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://www.mujeressentadasencirculo.org/blog/la-madre-tierra-necesitaba-un-respiro/" title="La Madre Tierra necesitaba un respiro" rel="nofollow"><img width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.mujeressentadasencirculo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/atacando_a_madretierra.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Madre Tierra" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" /></a> ...Many times the external services cache the feed URL, and only update it when a new post is detected, you can try adding a cachebuster to the URL such as:
https://yourdomain.com/feed/?nocache123and test that. If images are shown now but not on the plain URL, it’s cached. Some services like Mailchimp use the new URL going forward without any issues.
If the service has no way to clear the cache, just know that images are in the feed now, and going forward it will work ok, but I don’t think there’s a way to get it to update otherwise. Perhaps reach out to Feedly via Twitter or their website about some way of having them reload your past posts.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by 5 Star Plugins (Rob). Reason: better highlight cachebuster URL
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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] Images do not follow guidelinesOh and make sure the Mailchimp “Resize Images” option is not checked on the RSS Feed page, it can cause blurry images too.
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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] Images do not follow guidelinesHmm then it may be your images are too small to begin with?
If not, you may need different CSS added in the Mailchimp template. If you have a test send or a web view link, I could look at that more and see. You may need to contact us via https://support.5starplugins.com/ if you can’t get the CSS working, there are also articles there that might help.
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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] Images do not follow guidelinesOften the email services strip out our default CSS, and require custom CSS of their own, for example Mailchimp often requires it’s own CSS.
An example, change the class name to match your template’s image class name, and the width/margin as needed:
<style> .mc-rss-item-img { width: 150px; float: left; margin-right:20px; } </style>Let me know if that doesn’t help.
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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] Double image overnightIf you’re on the free version, there shouldn’t be double images but if you have body images, that would cause it. Our plugin adds featured images to the body of your RSS feed’s posts. Why you suddenly have double images is strange. If you have body images added, perhaps you can just deactivate the plugin then?
Check other plugins like Feedzy, it also adds images to your feed.
We did upgrade the premium version to fix the only media tag option so it doesn’t remove all body images… that’s the only change we’ve made, and since you’re not using premium, that shouldn’t affect your site.
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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] WooCommerce Product FeedYes, our plugin is designed to work with any post type that supports post thumbnails (labeled as Featured Image on blog posts), including custom post types (with their own name).
WooCommerce has it’s own post type, and I checked that the Product Photo is indeed registered as a post thumbnail, so it should work just fine.
I double-checked using a live WooCommerce site, reviewed the /shop/ feed at /shop/feed/ and our plugin does show the product photos in the feed.
Under Settings > Reading it sets the # of products shown in the feed, etc.
If you don’t see images in the RSS feed right away, be sure to clear the WordPress page cache, and any server caching. Try adding a cache-buster to the URL like /shop/feed/?nocache123 or something like that, and see if that helps.
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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] Admin notice won’t dismissApologies for the trouble… that message from the Freemius.com SDK should definitely be dismissable, and it works fine on thousands of websites.
Can you check your browser’s console for any Javascript errors? I believe if Javascript has an error, it breaks all Javascript actions on the page, including our plugin’s close link.
If you need help opening the browser console, please reply. If you see a Red error message, you can copy/paste it in as code, and we can evaluate it for how to proceed, and spot what is causing the error. It could be other plugins, and so it’s vital we see the specific error so we can pinpoint what is causing the issue.
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In reply to: [Marijuana Age Verify] Simple and cleanThanks so much for your 5 star review, we really appreciate it. When we release a plugin, reviews are so vital to establish trust to others, and yours helps with that immensely!
@mzawilinski You should create your own thread per their forum rules, but the above was resolved by removing custom code in the theme’s functions.php that was adding small thumbnail images to the RSS feed.
Also check if you have the Feedzy plugin installed, it adds small thumbnails to the RSS feed as well, and there is an option on it’s first options page to disable it.
Let me know if those do not help to resolve this for you in your own thread if you don’t mind.
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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] PLUGIN NOT WORKINGHi there,
Our plugin adds your own blog post featured images to your own RSS feed data. Where the RSS feed data is used, your blog image will appear, such as Feedly, Mailchimp, etc.
It does not display images from remote RSS feeds on your website. If you are using a third party RSS feed display plugin, it is up to the remote feed to add images to their feed, which your display plugin would then display if supported.
You can see when our plugin is working correctly to include your own blog post featured images in your RSS feed, you can see this on your RSS feed URL at: yourdomain.com/feed/
You can visually check the display of your RSS content on a reader, such as Feedly, to see an example of how your blog images are displaying in a third party service.
Ah very good to hear that it’s working for you now!
You would use the RSSITEM:CONTENT or RSSITEM:CONTENT_FULL merge tags, and the image is added to the front of your body copy.
The premium version allows you to use Media tags, and then in Mailchimp you can create more advanced layouts, using the RSSITEM:IMAGE merge tag to place the image anywhere you want, separately from the body copy.