Send images to RSS instantly for free. Output blog or WooCommerce photos to Mailchimp RSS email campaigns, ActiveCampaign, Hubspot, Feedly and more.
As of April 2026, Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More is a WordPress mailchimp plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 113 reviews. It has been downloaded 683K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress.
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.
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We had some issues setting it up wanting a feed a seperate wordpress site but go it to work and very happy with the results.
Honestly, when I entered the world of RSS feeds recently I couldn’t believe that a featured image for a post wouldn’t be included by default in a WordPress.org RSS feed. But this little plugin was there to fill in the gap, and it just works without a problem. Thanks to the developer for offering this at no extra cost because most of my website work is with nonprofits at cost.
I use this plugin to embed images via an RSS feed in e-newsletters. It works perfectly!
The support is far beyond what a user might expect.
When I started using the plugin, I discovered that many of the images on our website had external URLs. These were not, and are not, saved as featured images. This prevented the plugin from including the images in the RSS feed. The plugin we used before could do this, but it was very outdated and no longer supported. The plugin developer has modified their code so that it now supports external image URLs in media or enclosure tags.
10 stars for this developer who provides excellent support for their product and their users.
Easy to use and easy to setup.
I’ve been using this for year or so to add photos to my RSS feed email on MailChimp, but had a couple of niggles. One was the picture resolution, which I could have fixed myself if I’d bothered to read the forums.
And another to do with spacing.
I have no real knowledge of code but Rob patiently took me through the process and solved my problem.
Hence the review title – great product and great support !
| WordPress | 2.9+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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