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Robin Cornett
5 (26 reviews)
Send Images to RSS
Improve your RSS: for full text feeds, replace large site images with email friendly images. Customize summaries with images and beautiful excerpts.
Send Images to RSS ranks #4,145 among WordPress.org plugins with 3,000+ active installations, is #205 of 3,120 in the Communication category, a 5/5 rating from 26 reviews, and was last updated Aug 31, 2020. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Tested up to WP 5.5 (Current: 7.0.2)
v3.4.1
Current Version v3.4.1
Updated 5 years ago
Last Update on 31 Aug, 2020
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- Version
- 3.4.1
- Last Updated
- Aug 31, 2020
- Requires WP
- 4.9+
- Tested Up To
- 5.5
- PHP Version
- 5.6.20 or higher
- Author
- Robin Cornett
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TL;DR
AI summary of the plugin's readmeThis plugin is for WordPress site owners who send their RSS feed to email services like MailChimp. It solves the problem of large website images and formatting not displaying well in email clients by resizing images and adding email-friendly styling, and lets summary feeds include a featured image and custom excerpt.
- Replace large images with email friendly sizes
- Convert galleries to full width images
- Add email friendly image styling/alignment
- Add featured image to excerpt
- Choose image size and alignment
- Set custom summary word length
- Use manual excerpt if provided
- Add custom read more link
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Send Images to RSS
Most users should not need to change this. The plugin is designed with a default image size of 560 pixels for the width of the new image. If, however, your RSS email template is more or less than 600 pixels wide, or you're using a template with a sidebar, you may need to change this setting. What number you choose is up to you. Mad Mimi users should set this to 530. Note: If you use a template with a sidebar, I strongly recommend that you opt to use the Alternate Feed for your emails, as your images will be too small to be attractive on services like Flipboard and Feedly.
If your site's feed settings are set to Summary instead of Full Text, the featured image (or first image) will be added to each post. As of version 3.1.0, you can now add your post's featured image to the full text feed as well. If you use this setting, please double check your feed (again) to make sure you don't have duplicate featured images, as some themes and plugins do this as well. (If you are a Display Featured Image for Genesis user, I've got you covered--this setting will not work until you've deactivated this setting in that plugin.) If you have added the featured image to your feed excerpt using your own functions, or another plugin, you will need to get rid of that before using this plugin, or select "No Image" for the Featured Image Size.
YES INDEEDY. It's true, as of version 3.0.0, Send Images to RSS works with RSS feeds set to show excerpts/summaries! With this change, there's a new plugin settings page to handle the additional settings, which allow you to add the featured image to your excerpt, set its alignment, and set the target number of words for the excerpt. If a post has images uploaded to it (attached), but no featured image, the plugin will use the first attached image for the excerpt.
Smaller images will still be small. WordPress handles image alignment differently than email clients (set by class v. inline align). If your smaller image has an right/left alignment set in post, the plugin will copy that alignment in your email as well, and add a margin.
Yes, you can change that. By default, the plugin simply looks to see if an email appropriate size image exists, and uses that, but this behavior will override small images in your posts if that large version exists. To make sure that the small image is used even if the large one exists, disable the "Change Small Images" setting in the plugin's settings page. Note to iThemes Security users: if you are using the HackRepair.com blacklist feature, you will not be able to make use of this filter, because it blocks how Send Images to RSS retrieves image data in the feed. I would not suggest disabling the security feature just to be able to use this filter.
Because you have funky characters and/or invalid markup in your posts. The plugin attempts to process your feed and encode wonky markup, but if your server doesn't have certain packages installed, the fallback is to process your feed as is, warts and all. I installed this plugin and the email that I sent out five minutes later still had giant images. The plugin only generates properly sized images for new uploads--anything you uploaded before the plugin was active will still be giant, if that's what you uploaded and your email client ignores a max-width setting. You can re-upload the images, or regenerate thumbnails, and they should behave as desired.
Because I use Feedly, and as a former photographer, it bothers me to see the freshly rendered email sized images blown up and soft to fit Feedly/Feedburner specs. So this gives you the option of having your main feed(s) with large images (galleries will be converted, too), but a special email-only feed which you can use with an email service like MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, or FeedBurner.
If this happens, your permalink for the new feed may not have been updated. Visit Settings > Permalinks in your admin. Save Changes if you like, and refresh your feed page.
If you use native WordPress galleries in your posts, they're sent to your feed as thumbnails. Even if you do not use an RSS/email service, you can still use this plugin to sort out your galleries for subscribers who use an RSS reader. If you select Simplify Feed, your galleries will be converted, but there will not be an email sized image created, and no alternate feed will be created.
Send Images to RSS works best with images uploaded through your WordPress website, because WordPress automatically creates the correct size images needed. However, the plugin will add inline styling to all images to attempt to make them fit your email template.
