Add Featured Images as Enclosures to Posts in WordPress RSS Feeds

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1. John Blackbourn says:

   August 30, 2012 at 14:43

   I’ve written just the same plugin, but it looks like I haven’t updated it in over two years so it’s not showing up on the wp.org repo any more! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feed-thumbnails/

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2. Kaspars says:

   August 30, 2012 at 14:46

   Thanks for the tip, John. I actually did search the repo before and didn’t find anything, so I just created it. Your plugin is a good in being able to extract images from the content as a fallback.

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3. Jacquesdancona says:

   January 24, 2013 at 13:17

   Thanks a lot Kaspars! This is exactly what I need. Currently using it in my functions.php with some modifications.

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   • Kaspars says:

     January 29, 2013 at 11:21

     Sounds good, Jacquesdancona! Is it possible to see your changes and modifications somewhere online? There might be people interested in it.

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4. Muskie says:

   August 26, 2013 at 01:24

   How come you put it in GitHub and not the WordPress plugin repository?

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   • Kaspars says:

     August 26, 2013 at 11:10

     I wrote the plugin for my own needs so I chose GitHub because I don’t want to deal with writing docs, etc. In addition, GitHub provides an easy way for others to contribute to the code. You don’t even need a local Git client to submit things like docs.

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5. Debbie Fiorentino says:

   June 30, 2015 at 01:46

   Is your Plugin: Add Featured Images as Enclosures to Posts in WordPress RSS Feeds still current? I am using WordPress 4.2.2

   Thanks

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   • Kaspars says:

     July 8, 2015 at 13:10

     Yes, it works perfectly with the latest version of WordPress.

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6. Nick says:

   March 16, 2016 at 15:55

   This has been a nice solution for an issue I was having with one RSS feed, so thank you. I’m wondering if the php could be easily modified to pull the first post’s image instead of featured image?

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   • Kaspars says:

     March 16, 2016 at 16:04

     Using the featured image is simply the easiest solution since it relies only on WordPress core methods. Here are the two ways to extract the first image from an HTML blob (I suggest the DOMDocument approach).

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7. Elvaan says:

   October 11, 2018 at 17:56

   Hello Kaspars, I want to know if there is a way to use the full image size instead of the thumbnail.

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   • Kaspars says:

     October 11, 2018 at 18:20

     Yes, there is the rss_enclosure_image_size filter which can be used to set the thumbnail size. For example, this snippet will set the image size to “large” “full”:

     add_filter( 'rss_enclosure_image_size', function() {
         return 'full';
     } );

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