Comments on: WordPress Plugin: Feed Thumbnails

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:29:41 +0000

Gabriele: see this comment for what you’re looking for: https://lud.icro.us/wordpress-plugin-feed-thumbnails/#comment-5869 . I should probably clarify the description of this plugin.

John

By: gabriele

gabriele — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:22:41 +0000

ok john, honestly i have to tell you that the media enclosure was already shown by a feedburner configuration. I tought your plugin would show a visible thumbnail and not just an attached enclosure. By the way i appreciate your reply. thank you

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:51:27 +0000

Gabriele: I just checked your feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/Europecarnewscom-LatestCarModels and the thumbnail enclosures are present as expected. The enclosures will show up regardless of whether you have a full text feed or a summary feed.

If you’re viewing the feed in your browser you may need to do a hard refresh (ctrl+reload) to see the updated feed after you’ve activated the plugin. Maybe this is the problem?

John.

By: Gabriele

Gabriele — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:06:31 +0000

Hey John, thanks for the plugins. I have installed your plugin but it doesn’t work. I suspect the problem is due my excerpt setting for the homepage, i use summary excerpt and not the full post. If that is the problem, is there any chance to solve it? I saw many forums with people with the same problem, they need to use excerpt and don’t see their thumbnails in the feed. If you make your plugin working for that you’ll see many of those users to install it.

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:59:18 +0000

Caramel: If your theme stores the thumbnail URL in a custom field then you can make a change to the plugin to support this. Change the following line: $thumb = false; to this: $thumb = array( get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'CUSTOM_FIELD_NAME', true ) ); Change CUSTOM_FIELD_NAME to the name of the custom field used in your theme. If your plugin stores something else in the custom field (eg. the ID of the thumbnail rather than the URL) then you'll need to contact the theme author for help. John

By: Caramel

Caramel — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:58:29 +0000

Hi John,

I am using a special theme which dosn’t support post thumbnail fonction of WP, but i am using custom fields for thumbnails. Is there a way to use your plugin with a specific custom field?
Thanks!!

By: Ayaz malik

Ayaz malik — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:13:27 +0000

hmm . but why not showing up in feed directly ? thts wht im trying to get fix

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:06:58 +0000

Ayaz: The ‘moz-icon://…’ image is just the image that Firefox uses when showing you a feed. View the source of your feed (ctrl+U) and you’ll see the thumbnail images in enclosures.

By: Ayaz malik

Ayaz malik — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:02:25 +0000

Hello John,
because of the changes in new digg i need a way to add images thumbnails in my rss for auto submissions.

this is exactly what i need but unfortunately it didn’t worked for me :( . i mean if we see the code in rss feeds it does tshi : img src=”moz-icon://.txt?size=16″ class=”type-icon”/>

plz take a look and help me out :) http://designzzz.com/feed/
regards

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:12:23 +0000

Hey Phazei, stick the code in a pastebin and put the link in a comment.

By: phazei

phazei — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:06:14 +0000

Precondition Failed

The precondition on the request for the URL /wordpress-plugin-feed-thumbnails/ evaluated to false.

I get that even if I html encode the code. Email me.

By: phazei

phazei — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:03:40 +0000

I made some cool changes, but these comments blow and won’t let me post them, sigh.

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:17:15 +0000

Thanks John – work around all sorted. It’s easy when you know how…!

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:49:03 +0000

Howard: Take a look in the plugin. Near the bottom you'll see where the enclosure tag is echoed out. Just add the type attribute before the url attribute and you'll be sorted.

By: Howard

Howard — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:40:43 +0000

Ah – Thanks John. I’ll look forward to you adding the file type and length attributes in the near future. This will also help the validation errors, which are mentioned in a previous comment.

Is there a quick workaround in the meantime? ie how can I just hard-code the file type as exactly, type=â€image/jpgâ€ for now, as I am only using jpgs at the moment?

I ask as I need to fix this up before tomorrow. The site our feed is providing content for is launching tomorrow and the file type attribute is something they are insistent on. Without it, our content will not be included, and my boss will not be happy…

I have had a go, but my knowledge of php is not sufficient. I would really appreciate a workaround… Thanks.

By: John Blackbourn

John Blackbourn — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:09:55 +0000

Howard:

Yeah my plugin doesn’t add the file type attribute to the enclosure.

The plugin doesn’t use WordPress’ rss_enclosure function as my plugin was built to work with two separate thumbnail plugins in addition to the built-in thumbnail system in WordPress meaning that the file type of the thumbnail isn’t always available.

I’m busy at the moment but if I find the time in the next week or so I’ll look at adding in the file type (and file size as the ‘length’ attribute) to the enclosure tag.

By: Howard

Howard — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:25:26 +0000

John,
I have created a custom rss feed for a third party website to display our blog content. They requested for an image to be attached to each post within an enclosure, so your plugin was perfect for including the post thumbnail in each post.

However, when I checked the code in Firefox, it is not including the file type in the enclosure, eg. type=”image/jpg” at the end of the enclosure tag.

Is it your plugin that is failing to add the file type, or the ‘rss_enclosure’ function in WordPress? And can you suggest how to add this?
My custom feed is here: http://scubapix.com/blog/?feed=banzai

Thanks, H

By: Dominic

Dominic — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:45:00 +0000

John,

Problem seems to be encclosure related. Thinking this is the enclosure for the thumbnail.

â€¢line 38, column 2: Missing enclosure attribute: length (8 occurrences) [help]

http://nufantech.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/landingthu … ^â€¢line 38, column 2: Missing enclosure attribute: type (8 occurrences) [help]

http://nufantech.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/landingthu … ^

By: Dominic

Dominic — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:38:43 +0000

John,

When you test are you actually seeing the thumbnail, or just the filename and a link? I’ve got it working in IE, but like Firefox, it just displays the filename and a link.

I could modify the plugin to create a new but I’m fairly sure this will cause some compatibility issues with the feed.

Your thoughts?

By: Dominic

Dominic — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:33:56 +0000

Story of my life. I’ll take your word for it. Maybe I have something installed that’s screwing it up. Thanks for your help.