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Hi there,
I do see the product images in the feed:
<description><![CDATA[<a href="https://ventadeactivos.es/producto/promocion-toquero-2b/" title="Promoción Toquero, 2B" rel="nofollow"><img width="150" height="150" src="https://ventadeactivos.es/web/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/PORTADA-150x150.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="1" ... /></a>You can see the IMG and the SRC URL of the image being used.
If you are not seeing the images still, the RSS feed may be cached… you can try adding a cachebuster to the end of your URL, such as “?nocache123” etc, it will treat the feed as a new/different feed, and images may show then.
Our plugin is designed to work with any post type that supports post thumbnails (labeled 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 registered as a post thumbnail, so it should work just fine.
I checked using a live WooCommerce site, reviewed the /shop/ feed at /shop/feed/ and it does show the product photos in the feed.
Under Settings > Reading it sets the # of products shown in the feed, etc.
Hello, I am sorry you mistakenly started an upgrade you did not intend. Paid user support must be done off the free WP forum per their policy. If you could please visit our paid support section from your plugin dashboard to send a message with more information we can cancel/refund your order. Our RSS plugin is forever free and does not take any user automatically to a payment page. There is upgrade information in the dashboard/settings page which a user must click on and then process their payment information by voluntarily opting in to upgrade. It is not required nor have we to date sent any emails to users requiring they upgrade. If you started payment to upgrade you may receive transational emails from our payment system, or if you opted into a free trial. Thanks for trying our plugin. We can get this corrected immediately if you would like to contact us further.
In your raw feed, I’m seeing the normal WordPress Read More being added only when the excerpt is longer than it’s default length (45 words I believe).
You can either populate the excerpt field on the post, ensuring it remains short, or you can customize the WordPress Read More:
https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Customizing_the_Read_More#Modify_the_Read_More_text_when_using_the_the_excerpt.28.29This code added via a child theme’s functions.php or the Code Snippets plugin would remove it I think:
// Replaces the excerpt "Read More" function new_excerpt_more($more) { global $post; return ''; } add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');Hi there,
Very strange, our plugin does not add any links to the RSS feed, except if the image link option is selected, then it links the image to the post. It does not add any other links, including any Read More links. Those are most likely added by something else within WordPress.
I would troubleshoot this further by examining the raw feed first, and see what is there, and then try deactivating plugins or theme settings to try and remove the new links.
If you share your raw feed, I can take a look at it and see if I spot anything out of the ordinary.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] Image not showing in MailchimpHi there,
The image is within the *|RSSITEM:CONTENT|* merge tag. Add that, and you should see the image and body copy.
If you want only the body excerpt to show instead of all of the body text, set Settings > Reading > “For each post in a feed, include” to Summary.
Let me know if that helps.
Hi there,
We always troubleshoot starting with your raw RSS feed… in your feed at /feed/, I am seeing relative URLs for your images:
<description><![CDATA[<a href="/2020/05/14/our-wildlife-when-where-to-see-it/" title="When & Where to See Our Wildlife" rel="nofollow"><img width="1000" height="563" src="/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_2288-1000x563.jpeg" ...This works great on your web server and in browsers, but RSS and Mailchimp need absolute URLs including your website domain.
Find and fix this, and everything will work great. Another plugin is probably creating absolute URLs, or sometimes it can be caused by certain CDNs.
It’s also helpful to run your RSS feed through a validator to help troubleshoot issues like this:
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcentralcoastparks.org%2Ffeed%2FLet me know if you can’t find the reason for your site using relative URLs in your feed.
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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] No media tagWhy rate us one star for something we do not include, and do not say we include? Other plugins may offer media but do not include sizing or alignment or many other features we offer. Go use a free plugin that works for you, but leaving one star on ours that works great for free for over 30-40K websites is not cool.
We offer it with premium support because that causes a lot more questions on how to properly use it, implement it, and design around it. It costs money to develop professional level plugins and support them like we do.
Ratings should be about how well a plugin works as advertised, problems, support, reliability, not what free features with free support it does not include that you want.
With the free version, the image HTML is prepended to the front of the <description>, because then it can be pulled in with the content easily for display.
The Premium version supports < Media:Content > and < Enclosure > tag options, which output the image info in those specific ways.
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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] RSS Category feed NoT Working`When I viewed the raw category feed, on desktop, it had no posts. On mobile shouldn’t make a difference, but I will check it. If it does, there’s a plugin or something checking the browser agent and changing what is served, or a caching issue based on browser agent.
That would be a separate issue from our plugin.
What devices and browsers are you using?
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In reply to: [Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More] RSS Category feed NoT Working`It’s most likely a feed caching issue… but in looking at your feed, I don’t see any posts either, so that’s an issue I can’t troubleshoot more.
We always troubleshoot the raw feed first, as that is something built into WordPress, and we add images into it. Once that’s working, we can troubleshoot other services trying to use the raw feed.
Get your raw feed working with posts, and we can see if images show up with each post.
@clynnvi Sorry in reviewing open threads, I realized we didn’t reply to your last post. Are you still having this issue?
@asaadfilho Thanks for the tag, I somehow missed the post notifications.
@buttermilkbysam and @theladycatelyn Sorry for the delay. In general, it’s best to start your own thread, because questions and site details diverge and become unique.
Generally speaking, our plugin options affect the raw RSS feed. Mailchimp then often strips out a lot of those options and the styling itself, requiring it’s own custom CSS, mentioned above. Mailchimp CSS is added in Mailchimp, in the email template at the very top is best, using the <> code icon.
Be sure the Resize images in unchecked on the Mailchimp RSS URL page, and if Medium is still not displaying well, try Large or Full. If you change the Medium dimensions, you have to rebuild your thumbnails (there are a few plugins for that) for that new dimensions to take effect on already uploaded images.
The Excerpt setting is in WordPress under Settings > Reading, choosing Summary or Full, as well as the number of posts in the raw feed.
The Mailchimp merge tag for showing the excerpt would be RSSITEM:CONTENT, and the full text (regardless of the WordPress setting I belive) is RSSITEM:CONTENT_FULL.
The length of the excerpt is controlled by WordPress default value of 55 words, and the theme may have an option to change that as well, but the “Advanced Excerpt” plugin can customize many things regarding the excerpt as well. I will look into adding an option to our plugin for changing the excerpt length so that it’s built-in, to bring more value to the plugin and not require additional work to get the feed looking the way you want.
I will also look into adding an option “Include Mailchimp CSS” for including some default Mailchimp custom CSS according to the plugin options set, and look into other services as well.
Please follow up if you’re still having issues, happy to help. If you upgrade to the Premium version, even using the free 14 day trial, we offer Premium support and one-on-one ticketing via Contact on our support site https://support.5starplugins.com/
Blurry images usually means the size selected in the plugin’s option page is too small… have you tried increasing it to Large, or using “Full”, which is the original full size unaltered? If still blurry using Full, then the original image size uploaded is too small, upload a larger image. Also, be sure you have the “Resize images” checkbox unchecked on the RSS feed page (in Mailchimp, and maybe other services as well.)
The other option is to use some custom CSS to display the image(s) smaller in the email, max width should always be 600px for Mailchimp, so make sure your images are at least that large, and ideally exactly that width, with a reasonable height (300-500px typically).
For your feed, I’m seeing the images being added to the feed without https:// or http://, they are using “//” which is a relative protocol that works on websites, but not in RSS. It needs to be absolute for it to work best. Here is the URL it’s showing in your raw feed:
“//252366-784522-raikfcquaxqncofqfm.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/uttapam-1-of-2-e1588291276485.jpg”
There’s a plugin or the CDN itself changing the image URLs to be relative, turn this off and your images should display ok.
Let me know if you need additional help on this.
Ah sure, you can add regular HTML between those merge tags, try something like this?:
*|RSSITEM:TITLE|* <p> </p> *|RSSITEM:DATE|* <p> </p> *|RSSITEM:CONTENT|*Or, use some custom CSS to add padding or spacing around the image. For example, this CSS would make the images full-width above the text, with 20px of space on top and bottom:
<style> .mc-rss-item-img { width: 600px; max-width: 100%; margin-top:20px; margin-bottom:20px; } </style>Let me know if that helps?