DowntownRob

Yes but I think the image in the content area may have been edited, with caption added, which then affects the version in the media library, and then the featured image is the same and picks it up. It’s shared across all uses. Click on the featured image again, and see if the caption is shown there now. If so, it’s shared. Try uploading it again separately, see if it keeps two images, one with the caption and one without.

Yes I think so, my plugin doesn’t accept text input, so it should be good, but I’ll need to take another look to be certain.

I’ve done more research on how to best implement this for services like Aweber, but now I’m reading that using <content:encoded> will break Aweber, and that it looks for the featured image IMG SRC= in the <description> field, which is where it’s set currently.

From Aweber:

“I have tested the blog broadcast and I believe I know what may be causing the issue. While it may not always be the case, when you are pulling content, it is possible that if it is encoded, this will not be pulled correctly. Looking at your RSS feed, it appears that it is encoded. I would recommend looking into having your RSS feed post not encoded content <content:encoded> to <content> or posting a description through your RSS feed.”

but then read this:
http://blog.aweber.com/new-features/publish-full-posts-in-blog-broadcasts.htm

“As of now, the <img> tag for the thumbnail needs to be in the <description> or <content:encoded> tag in your RSS item in order to be included.”

So it should be working… have you tried changing {!rss_item_description} to {!rss_item_content} and see if that helps or makes it worse?

I’m digging into how best to implement adding options for handling the images better, while trying not to break it’s existing functionality for those that use it and it’s working fine for.

Thanks,
Rob

My plugin doesn’t do anything to the website itself, it only adds the image to the RSS feed, which explains why the extra image is still there when you deactivate the plugin. That is part of your theme, and there’s usually an option to display the Featured Image or not. Or, you may have to have the theme customized to hide the featured image.

On your site, you can add this CSS somewhere, either in a custom CSS section, or in the theme’s style.css (but that’s bad practice, as it would be overwritten by any theme updates).

.post-header .featured {
display: none;
}

Hi Lindsay, John, thanks for the follow ups, I’ll need it. 😉

After the conferences, I forgot but I was to be out of town for a week of travel, so got back in town yesterday, and of course completely swamped with WordPress projects right now, but I will strive to work on this later this week, and make some progress ASAP. I appreciate your patience and I want to get this done as soon as I can for you…

Hi there,

The feed looks ok to me, medium and centered. Perhaps it was cached or something, not sure.

The Mailchimp size and wrapping is set via their custom CSS, you’d need to see what CSS id or class names they are using for their images etc.

I have used this before and seemed to work ok, in the Mailchimp template:

<style type=”text/css”>
.rss-content img { padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left; }
</style>
<span style=”font-size:12px”>*|RSSITEMS:|*</span>
<h2 class=”mc-toc-title”>*|RSSITEM:TITLE|*</h2>
Posted on *|RSSITEM:DATE|*

<div class=”rss-content”>*|RSSITEM:CONTENT|*</div>

If everyone that wanted it to work with Aweber donated $20, I’d jump on it and fix it within a few days. I am looking into creating a premium version and perhaps this is the spark for that, charge a small $20 fee for the premium version that supports Aweber and handles no Featured Image, etc.