• Hi,

    First, here is my WP configuration:
    – Theme used: Arthemia Premium
    – Extension: timthumb.php
    – Name of Owner: OVH
    – Website: http://www.mood-for.fr

    My problem.
    I try to set up a customised RSS feed with the title of each article, the first 450 characters and a thumbail. The ultimate goal is to implement this feed in MailShimp to send a “notification” e-mail to subscribers with the latest blog posts.

    I just integrated the image to illustrate each section. The idea is to use the plugin as timthumb on our homepage.

    To implement this RSS feed, I created a WordPress page with a specific template. Here is the template code:
    Code:

    1.
          <?php
       2.
          /*
       3.
          Template Name: Custom Feed newsletter daily
       4.
          */
       5.
    
       6.
    
       7.
          $numposts = 10; // number of posts in feed
       8.
          $posts = query_posts('showposts='.$numposts.'&cat=-1'); // replace the number 1 with the ID of your tumblelog category
       9.
          $more = 1;
      10.
    
      11.
          header("Content-Type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8");
      12.
          echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'.get_option('blog_charset').'"?'.'>';
      13.
          ?>
      14.
    
      15.
          <rss version="2.0"
      16.
            xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
      17.
            xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
      18.
            xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
      19.
            xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
      20.
            xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
      21.
            xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
      22.
            <?php do_action('rss2_ns'); ?>
      23.
          >
      24.
          <channel>
      25.
            <title><?php bloginfo_rss('name'); wp_title_rss(); ?> - Article Feed</title>
      26.
            <atom:link href="<?php self_link(); ?>" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
      27.
            <link><?php bloginfo_rss('url') ?></link>
      28.
            <description><?php bloginfo_rss("description") ?></description>
      29.
            <lastBuildDate><?php echo mysql2date('D, d M Y H:i:s +0000', get_lastpostmodified('GMT'), false); ?></lastBuildDate>
      30.
            <?php the_generator( 'rss2' ); ?>
      31.
            <language><?php echo get_option('rss_language'); ?></language>
      32.
            <sy:updatePeriod><?php echo apply_filters( 'rss_update_period', 'hourly' ); ?></sy:updatePeriod>
      33.
            <sy:updateFrequency><?php echo apply_filters( 'rss_update_frequency', '1' ); ?></sy:updateFrequency>
      34.
            <?php do_action('rss2_head'); ?>
      35.
            <?php while( have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
      36.
    
      37.
            <item>
      38.
              <title><?php the_title_rss(); ?></title>
      39.
              <link><?php the_permalink_rss(); ?></link>
      40.
              <comments><?php comments_link(); ?></comments>
      41.
              <pubDate><?php echo mysql2date('D, d M Y H:i:s +0000', get_post_time('Y-m-d H:i:s', true), false); ?></pubDate>
      42.
              <dc:creator><?php the_author(); ?></dc:creator>
      43.
          <?php the_category_rss(); ?>
      44.
              <guid isPermaLink="false"><?php the_guid(); ?></guid>
      45.
          <?php if (get_option('rss_use_excerpt')) : ?>
      46.
    
      47.
              <description><![CDATA[<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="http://www.mood-for.fr/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/<?php $values=get_post_custom_values("Image"); echo $values[0]; ?>&w=200&h=225&zc=1&q=70" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="left" width="200px" height="225px"  /></a><?php the_excerpt_rss(450, $encode_html) ?>]]></description>
      48.
    
      49.
                  <?php else : ?>
      50.
    
      51.
              <description><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss(25, $encode_html) ?>]]></description>
      52.
            <?php if ( strlen( $post->post_content ) > 0 ) : ?>
      53.
    
      54.
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_content(150) ?>]]></content:encoded>
      55.
            <?php else : ?>
      56.
    
      57.
              <content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_excerpt_rss(25, $encode_html) ?>]]></content:encoded>
      58.
    
      59.
            <?php endif; ?>
      60.
          <?php endif; ?>
      61.
              <slash:comments><?php echo get_comments_number(); ?></slash:comments>
      62.
          <?php rss_enclosure(); ?>
      63.
          <?php do_action('rss2_item'); ?>
      64.
    
      65.
            </item>
      66.
            <?php endwhile; ?>
      67.
    
      68.
          </channel>
      69.
          </rss>

    Now, the flow displays a picture for each article but can not find the image file: http://www.mood-for.fr/rss-newsletter-daily/. I’m not an experienced developer, so I’m lookig for help me configure the page template to display the correct thumbail for each post, using the plugin timthumb?

    Thank you in advance

  • The topic ‘Add an thumbail generated by timthumb in customised RSS feed’ is closed to new replies.