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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.

By Corey Salzano·Feed·Free
4.3(12 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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As of April 2026, Add Featured Image to RSS Feed is a WordPress feed plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 12 reviews. It has been downloaded 41K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.0.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 17% this week. Top alternative: WebSub (FKA. PubSubHubbub).

4.3/512 reviews
2.0K+active installs
41K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013

Overview

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.

Open Graph Meta Tags are also Necessary

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.

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Ratings & Reviews

4.312 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Not working
by legarsfred·2 years ago

Nothing appeared on my rss feed after install.

Great plugin but why some RSS service doesn’t works?
by pizienolamitica·2 years ago

Great plugin. I use it from 3 years.

In the last 1 month it doesn’t works with Feedly. My RSS’s images are compromised and doesn’t show on Feedly.

Breaks some aggregators
by Daniele Muscetta·6 years ago

It works but it adds an array of images (srcset) and I found that this breaks some aggregators that expect just the single img src.

Still works
by James Kraus·10 years ago

It still adds the image to our RSS feed. Reliable plugin.

Doesn't add featured images in previous posts to RSS
by Tevya·11 years ago·1 reply

I’d really hoped this was the plugin I’ve been looking for. Unfortunately it adds a new image size, and inserts that in your feed. It won’t go back and add those from previous posts, unless you go back and delete the featured image and re-add it. That makes it basically unuseable for any established blogs.

Why can’t someone just make a plugin that just adds the featured image with maybe an option to insert full, large, or medium size, and not force it to conform to a certain size. Just put max-width: 100% and leave it at that. Using MailChimp’s responsive layouts (which everyone should be doing), you want the image to be responsive as well so it doesn’t ruin the responsiveness of the whole MailChimp template. This actually makes things simpler, but everyone seems to want to set sizes, crop the image, etc. All most of us want is to insert the featured image into the email, and keep it responsive.

Download Trends

Today: 4Yesterday: 5This week: 38Period total: 3K

Compatibility

WordPress2.0.2+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.1
97.7%
v1.0
2.3%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.1.4

  • [Fixed] Updates documentation to suggest this plugin is not as useful as it once was, and open graph image meta tags are often required for modern feed readers to show post thumbnails. Version 1.1.3 put this content in the wrong place so it was not visible on .org.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Corey SalzanoCorey Salzano
Plugin Info
Version
1.1.4
Last Updated
Aug 13, 2024
WP Requires
2.0.2+
Tested Up To
6.6.5
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
2.0K+
Downloads
41K+
Added
Feb 17, 2013
Business
Free

Tags

feedfeatured imagepost thumbnailadd featured imageadd featured image to rss

Developer

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Corey Salzano
11 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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