Display image thumbnails in your feeds, that will be visible in RSS aggregators for your readers.
As of April 2026, Insert RSS Thumbnails is a WordPress rss images plugin with 30 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 9.6K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp &….
This plugin offers you the possibility to have a small icon, in front of each blog entries, news headlines, website articles… in your RSS / Atom feeds.
The image thumbnail is automatically detected by aggregators (like Netvibes) and is automatically displayed, which gives a more professional look to your RSS feed.
The plugin used the feed ‘enclosure’ tag functionality to display media.
Visit bonplangratos.fr/wp/insert-rss-thumbnails for more details and features.
It is easy to use:
– You upload a picture (ideally not to big) in your WP media library gallery
– You specify the path of this picture in the meta-data field named ‘thumbnail’ in your posts
– And that rocks
You do that for each post, and a thumbnail will be automatically added in fr…
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.1.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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