Adds the featured image attached to posts to the beginning of the post content and excerpt in RSS feeds.
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).
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.
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.
Nothing appeared on my rss feed after install.
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.
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.
It still adds the image to our RSS feed. Reliable plugin.
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.
| WordPress | 2.0.2+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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