RSS Featured Image
Add the featured image into your RSS feed (in the media:content). Works nicely with Mailchimp (|RSSITEM:IMAGE|). Light and simple, no options, no clut …
5(23 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, RSS Featured Image is a WordPress rss plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 23 reviews. It has been downloaded 24K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 14% this week. Top alternative: RSS Importer.
5/523 reviews
2.0K+active installs
24K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
RSS Featured Image adds the featured image into your RSS feed (in the media:content). It works nicely with Mailchimp (|RSSITEM:IMAGE|). In fact, it basically does the same thing as another (and more famous) plugin but without cluttering your WordPress Admin. This is a simple task, and I believe it should be invisible and run peacefuly in the background, with no impact on the UI and the overall WordPress performance.
Usage
By default, the size of the image is “large”. I think it would be a shame to add new options to your WordPress admin only for this, so if you want to change the size, I propose you a filter 🙂 You can include some code in your functions.php to take care of this. This is how you can use it:
function thumbnail_size_for_rss( $default ) {
return ‘thumbnai…
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Ratings & Reviews
523 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Super plugin
by Marian Savu·1 year ago
Superb plugin, does the job perfectly, no cluttering. Just install and activate, perfect!
Great pluign its solve my problem.
by Developer zahir·1 year ago·1 reply
I am planning to create a WordPress automation to automatically share blog posts. However, I have been unable to find a solution that displays the featured image of the post. I found this plugin that seems to offer the solution, but I noticed a message stating:
“Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress.”
Is it safe to use this plugin?
Works Great
by CoffeeandTango·1 year ago
Install, Activate, and Voila! Only problem is image size, which I followed the advice at the Arts Hacker site to easily fix in Mailchimp. Just search for Mailchimp image fix.
Superlative, full of many features, great support and works perfectly.
by Fabio Perri·2 years ago
There is really little to add to the title of this review other than to congratulate the Developer Mr. Jordy Meow.
As mentioned in the title of this review, the RSS Featured Image plugin is really well designed and coded, it also turns out to be very streamlined, lightweight and packed with lots of features and most importantly it works perfectly (mind you, do not confuse the errors that can be caused by an incompatibility with obsolete versions of PHP, because using the updated versions of PHP and supported by this plugin, although I have been using this plugin for a long time, I have not yet encountered any errors in this plugin).
Basically, with RSS Featured Image, this simple but very powerful WordPress plugin, you can add the featured image in your RSS feed , it also works with Mailchimp and without any impact on the user interface and overall performance of WordPress.
Oh I forgot… it is completely free!
To finish I still give my compliments to the Developer Mr. Jordy Meow and I can only recommend you to try it because it is really an Excellent plugin for WordPress and I am very proud to have completely translated it into Italian!
Greetings and have a nice day.
Does what it says on the box
by axyl·2 years ago
Works great and with the filter for setting image size, is perfect for working with MailChimp RSS automation.
Download Trends
Today: 4Yesterday: 6This week: 33Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.3.8 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0.6
- Update: WordPress 6+.
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