{"id":76243,"date":"2012-04-13T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=76243"},"modified":"2013-04-27T15:11:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T19:11:54","slug":"daily-tip-add-wordpress-featured-images-to-your-rss-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-add-wordpress-featured-images-to-your-rss-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Featured Images to Your WordPress RSS Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to make your RSS feed more attractive?  <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/featured-image-in-rss-feed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Featured Image In RSS Feed<\/a> is a simple plugin does exactly what it says &#8211; it automatically adds your posts&#8217; featured images to your feed.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of what a plain RSS feed looks like: <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/plain-rss.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"plain-rss\" width=\"750\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After you add the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/featured-image-in-rss-feed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Featured Image In RSS Feed<\/a> plugin your feed will look something like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rss-images.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"rss-images\" width=\"954\" height=\"519\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can also choose the size of the images added in the plugin&#8217;s settings page. Please note that your theme must support post thumbnails in order for this plugin to work. Obviously, you will also need to make sure you assign a featured image for each of your posts if you want them to have images in your feed.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t guarantee that having featured images in your RSS feed will get you more clickthroughs, but it will certainly make your feed nicer to look at. You can get the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/featured-image-in-rss-feed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Featured Image In RSS Feed<\/a> plugin for free from the WordPress plugin repository. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to make your RSS feed more attractive?  This simple plugin automatically adds your featured images to your RSS feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":70506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,803,1234],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-76243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-images","tag-rss","tag-thumbnails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76243"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=76243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}