Gary Jones

Robin Cornett

Send Images to RSS bridges the gap between large websites and small emails, by replacing images in your feed with smaller, email friendly images, and attempting to add markup which email clients can handle.
Between larger monitors, retina screens, and better image optimization, the images we serve up on our websites are larger than they’ve ever been. RSS to email services such as MailChimp, however, are constrained to what email clients can display, which is small, small, small. And although it’s possible to try to style images with a max-width in your emails, not all clients will honor it (I’m looking at you, Outlook).
Send Images to RSS makes it easy to create beautiful, email friendly RSS campaigns, with minimal setup required, regardless of your feed setup.
<h4>Full Text RSS Feeds</h4>
If your site’s RSS feed is set to Full Text, this plugin makes sure your emails look more like your website:
<ul>
<li>Replace overly large images with email friendly size images.</li>
<li>Convert galleries from thumbnails to full width images.</li>
<li>Add email friendly styling/alignment to your images.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Summary Text Feeds</h4>
If you’ve used Summaries as your RSS feed settings, this plugin has not been for you. Until now. As of 3.0.0, Send Images to RSS brings the awesome to you, too. Here’s the magic for your Summary feed:
<ul>
<li>Add the post’s featured image to your excerpt. Choose the size and alignment. If no featured image is set, the plugin will use the first image uploaded to the post.</li>
<li>Set a custom length for your RSS summary/excerpt. Pick the number of words you want your summary to have, and the plugin will aim for that, but with the added bonus of making sure the final sentence is complete.</li>
<li>If you add a manual excerpt to your post, because you like to have full control, the plugin will properly use that instead.</li>
<li>Automatically add a custom “read more” link to the end of every post summary, to keep your feed pointed back to your site.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Known (non)Issues</h4>
This plugin should work with any theme. Some themes and plugins do modify the feed for their own purposes. Where possible, I’ve tried to account for them:
<ul>
<li>For summary feeds, the Yoast SEO RSS link is removed (the full text feed and front end output are not changed).</li>
<li>For summary feeds, the excerpt filter added by the Woo Canvas theme is removed (the full text feed and front end output are not changed).</li>
<li>For summary feeds, this plugin will replace the image settings for Display Featured Image for Genesis for versions 2.3.0 and later (because this plugin is smarter). If you’re using Display Featured Image for Genesis 2.2.2 or lower, this plugin will concede graciously. But you should update, please.</li>
<li>For full text feeds, this plugin will not duplicate featured images if they are being added by Display Featured Image for Genesis–you will want to disable that feature in Display Featured Image for Genesis.</li>
</ul>
NOTE: it is up to you to check that your feed output is still working, especially in your email system of choice, once it’s installed. I’ve attempted to set it up to handle XHTML or HTML5, and function even if your feed is wonky, but please double check, and let me know if you have issues, and if so, what specifically they are.
<h4>Props</h4>
Special thanks to <a href="https://gretchenlouise.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Gretchen Louise</a> for her summary feed contributions.
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Send Images to RSS

Improve your RSS: for full text feeds, replace large site images with email friendly images. Customize summaries with images and beautiful excerpts.

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Get images in your RSS feed instantly for free. Output blog featured images to Mailchimp RSS email campaigns, ActiveCampaign, Infusionsoft, Hubspot, Zoho, Feedburner, Bloglovin’, Feedly, and other services that use RSS feed data. Also works with WooCommerce product images for product-based RSS campaigns! A trusted plugin, developed in California with over 30,000 active installs and 75+ five star reviews. We actively answer every support forum thread.
Featured Images In RSS was built for content marketers. Easy set-up with minimal configuration to get up and running in minutes.
This plugin is forever free. Upgrade to Premium to unlock powerful features for content marketing. Developed and supported in the United States by 5 Star Plugins.
Free Features:
<ul>
<li>Can be used in any marketing automation service.</li>
<li>Select Featured Image Size: thumbnail, medium, large, any theme-specific sizes, or full size</li>
<li>Select Image Position: left above text, left text wrap, right text wrap, or centered above text</li>
<li>Padding: Instantly set the spacing between the image and the body text.</li>
<li>Feedly: Supports webfeedsFeaturedVisual class name on image HTML.</li>
<li>WooCommerce: Instantly add product photos to the product RSS feeds, and create product-based RSS campaigns.</li>
<li>Free support through the WordPress Support Forum.</li>
<li>Plugin updates with free version new features, fixes and security patches.</li>
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Premium Upgrade Features
Enjoy a 14-day free trial no credit card required. Check out this full suite of image customization features for professional marketing.
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<li>Tech Support: Expert support in the U.S. to help get everything working and looking great.</li>
<li>Media and Enclosure Tags: Some services require it and it allows you to custom design email templates.</li>
<li>Use Media tag images only: Fix duplicate images issues when using image tags for advanced template designs.</li>
<li>Custom Image Sizes: Completely customize the size of image display for RSS feeds.</li>
<li>Feature Body Image: No featured photos set? No problem. Use the first photo from the body of posts.</li>
<li>Disable Responsive Images: Helps fix services that have issues with the responsive image code, like Mailchimp’s Preview.</li>
<li>Exclude Categories: Exclude unwanted categories not meant to be included in the RSS feed, like Homepage or Featured categories.</li>
<li>Custom Content in Feeds: Add custom content (text or HTML) before or after the post such as backlinks or ads.</li>
<li>Publish Delay: Add a time buffer to new posts from instantly hitting the RSS feed to safeguard from typos or accidents.</li>
<li>Premium plugin updates with new features, fixes and security patches.</li>
</ul>
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Real Testimonials
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“Must-have for content marketing. This is a super easy way to customize the featured images that appear in the RSS feed – no more ugly pre-populated visuals. I especially love the Mailchimp integration. It’s great to have this much control over our content. Image is everything!” – @morganmariequinn <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/must-have-for-content-marketing/" rel="ugc">Read the review</a>
“Must Have for Featured Image Based Themes & MailChimp Users. For several years my WordPress theme has used featured images at the head of all my posts. The problem is, then, when feeding my RSS feed to MailChimp, that featured image at the head of the post is lost. Sometimes the image is highly crucial to the post (not to mention more enjoyable), so this plugin is a life saver. A must have!” – @ericdye <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/must-have-for-featured-image-based-themes-mailchimp-users/" rel="ugc">Read the review</a>
“It just works – lovely! Great with MailChimp. I installed this plugin, changed the (very simple) settings and the featured images started appearing in my MailChimp campaigns straight away – perfect!” – @barn2media <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/it-just-works-lovely-great-with-mailchimp/" rel="ugc">Read the review</a>
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We promise you’ll love the features this plugin provides for your content marketing automation!
Need help or wish it did something else as well? Use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-images-for-rss-feeds" rel="ugc">Support</a> tab to submit your thoughts.
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