Can I provide a mobile app an alternative RSS feed?

  • Resolved dozza

    (@dozza)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    I’ve got this plugin set up nicely on a few sites so that I can have smaller, bespoke image thumbnail (usually 100px square) pulled into RSS-driven Mailchimp campaigns and it works well.

    However, I’ve now had a mobile app developed for one of the sites by a 3rd party for iOS/Android and this pulls in the post feed (http://www.rathfern.lewisham.sch.uk/feed/) from the site using RSS. They are displaying the feed image full width within the app and, because it is being given the thumbnail provided by this plugin set-up, it looks very poor due to the up-sampling.

    How do I go about keeping the bespoke 100px thumbnail in the rss feed for Mailchimp, but additionally allow an rss feed that supplies a larger (say, 300x200px) thumbnail for the mobile app integration?

    I’m sure it’s possible, so any suggestions, answers or guidance appreciated, as I’d rather not have to simply include large images in the Mailchimp campaigns.

    You can see in the RSS feed validator that metadata about ALL the available image sizes is being provided in the feed. But how do I get the mobile app to pull the correct image size out?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-images-for-rss-feeds/

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  • DowntownRob

    (@downtownrob)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    I think you’d need to use a larger image for RSS, then via CSS in Mailchimp, display them smaller, and max-width: 100% should be used anyway to ensure mobile responsiveness.

    There’s only one image and size output in the feed using my plugin, so I don’t know of a way for the mobile app to pull in anything different, unless they specifically coded it to detect and append a filename suffix to the image name that is specified via IMG SRC=<url/filename>.

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