Ewout

waltervos

<p>Use this plugin to display the featured image for any post or page in your sidebar. If a featured image has been set. If no featured image has been set, the plugin tries to use the image of the parent post/page. Otherwise, no widget is displayed.</p>


Featured Image Widget

This doesn't pull in any photos in the sidebar. The title shows up, but no images are shown. Bummers. Maybe this worked before, but it certainly doesn't now. I am using Twenty Fourteen for the theme.



Doesn't work with latest WordPress

Provides a widget that displays the featured image for a post or page. If a featured image has been set. If no featured image has been set, the plugin …

Corey Salzano

<p>This plugin does one thing, and that thing is to add your posts’ featured image to the RSS feed. It specifies the ‘large’ image size.</p>
<h3>Open Graph Meta Tags are also Necessary</h3>
<p>Many modern feed readers do not show the images added by this plugin. Feedly, for example, will not show images added by this plugin. Feed readers crawl article pages to find the image attached to posts in the open graph meta tag. Many SEO plugins add open graph tags for featured images. I like the (https://wordpress.org/plugins/opengraph/)[Open Graph] plugin, too.</p>


Add Featured Image to RSS Feed

Adds the featured image attached to posts to the beginning of the post content and excerpt in RSS feeds.

Featured Image Widget vs Add Featured Image to RSS Feed