{"id":1599,"date":"2013-10-06T19:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T02:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virendrachandak.com\/techtalk\/\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2016-03-25T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T01:03:11","slug":"wordpress-add-featured-image-rss-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virendrachandak.com\/techtalk\/wordpress-add-featured-image-rss-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add featured image to WordPress RSS feed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I came across a situation when I wanted to add the featured image of the posts to my RSS Feed. By default WordPress does not shows the Featured Image in the RSS Feed. This can be easily achieved by adding a few lines of code in the functions.php file of the theme.<\/p>\n

Important<\/strong>: Make sure to add the code to the functions.php file of your theme. Do not add it to the functions.php file in the wp-includes directory.
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Here is the code that will add the featured image before the content with a margin-bottom of 10px.<\/p>\n

\r\n\/\/Function to add featured image in RSS feeds\r\nfunction featured_image_in_rss($content)\r\n{\r\n\t\/\/ Global $post variable\r\n\tglobal $post;\r\n\t\/\/ Check if the post has a featured image\r\n\tif (has_post_thumbnail($post->ID))\r\n\t{\r\n\t\t$content = get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'full', array('style' => 'margin-bottom:10px;')) . $content;\r\n\t}\r\n    return $content;\r\n}\r\n\/\/Add the filter for RSS feeds Excerpt\r\nadd_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'featured_image_in_rss');\r\n\/\/Add the filter for RSS feed content\r\nadd_filter('the_content_feed', 'featured_image_in_rss');\r\n<\/pre>\n
If you want to use different size of image just change the ‘full’ in above code (line 9) to the correct image size name e.g. thumb<\/p>\n
\r\n\t$content = get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'thumb', array('style' => 'margin-bottom:10px;')) . $content;\r\n<\/pre>\n
To add a custom sized image you can pass the size of to the get_the_post_thumbnail function. e.g. for a image of size 300×169 use the following code:<\/p>\n
\r\n\t$content = get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, array(300, 169), array('style' => 'margin-bottom:10px;')) . $content;\r\n<\/pre>\n
If you would like the featured image to be shown below the content, just change the line 9 to<\/p>\n
\r\n\t$content = $content. get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'full', array('style' => 'margin-bottom:10px;'));\r\n<\/pre>\n
You can add custom code surrounding the image too. e.g. the following code will add the full-sized featured image within a div with class featured_image_post_rss. <\/p>\n
\r\n\/\/Function to add featured image in RSS feeds\r\nfunction featured_image_in_rss($content)\r\n{\r\n\t\/\/ Global $post variable\r\n\tglobal $post;\r\n\t\/\/ Check if the post has a featured image\r\n\tif (has_post_thumbnail($post->ID))\r\n\t{\r\n\t\t$content = '<div class="featured_image_post_rss">' . get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID, 'full') . '<\/div>' . $content;\r\n\t}\r\n    return $content;\r\n}\r\n\/\/Add the filter for RSS feeds Excerpt\r\nadd_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'featured_image_in_rss');\r\n\/\/Add the filter for RSS feed content\r\nadd_filter('the_content_feed', 'featured_image_in_rss');\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nReference Links<\/strong>:<\/p>\n