Add Featured Image to RSS Feed

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Older reviewers loved how simply it worked, while the newest ones report images not showing up at all and breaking in Feedly and other aggregators.

1. ★★★★★ legarsfred

   2.5y ago

   Nothing appeared on my rss feed after install.

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2. ★★★★★ pizienolamitica

   3.0y ago

   Great plugin. I use it from 3 years. In the last 1 month it doesn’t works with Feedly. My RSS’s images are compromised and doesn’t show on Feedly.

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3. ★★★★★ Daniele Muscetta

   6.5y ago

   It works but it adds an array of images (srcset) and I found that this breaks some aggregators that expect just the single img src.

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4. ★★★★★ James Kraus

   11.1y ago

   It still adds the image to our RSS feed. Reliable plugin.

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5. ★★★★★ Tevya

   11.7y ago

   I’d really hoped this was the plugin I’ve been looking for. Unfortunately it adds a new image size, and inserts that in your feed. It won’t go back and add those from previous posts, unless you go back and delete the featured image and re-add it. That makes it basically unuseable for any established blogs. Why can’t someone just make a plugin that just adds the featured image with maybe an option to insert full, large, or medium size, and not force it to conform to a certain size. Just put max-width: 100% and leave it at that. Using MailChimp’s responsive layouts (which everyone should be doing), you want the image to be responsive as well so it doesn’t ruin the responsiveness of the whole MailChimp template. This actually makes things simpler, but everyone seems to want to set sizes, crop the image, etc. All most of us want is to insert the featured image into the email, and keep it responsive.

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6. ★★★★★ BTTV

   12.0y ago

   After deleting the plugin my feed is down!

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7. ★★★★★ matteobianchi00

   12.3y ago

   Works great!

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8. ★★★★★ melissaaa

   12.9y ago

   I want to hug you. This was so simple to use, I just installed it and it worked. Thank you!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-02-08 3K+ → 2K+ down after 3 days in tier
2. 2026-02-05 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-02-04 3K+ → 2K+ down after 2 days in tier
4. 2026-02-02 2K+ → 3K+ up after 3 days in tier
5. 2026-01-30 3K+ → 2K+ down after 157 days in tier
6. 2025-08-26 2K+ → 3K+ up

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• F Featured Image Admin Thumb 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• Multiple Featured Images 5K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
• Feed Post Thumbnail 2K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• Featured Image in RSS Feed by MailerLite 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags C
• SB RSS feed plus 1K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
• Featured Image in Content 700+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A

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Add Featured Image to RSS Feed: 2K+ active installs, 4.3★ (12 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/add-featured-image-to-rss-feed