Display Featured Post Thumbnails In WordPress Feeds

How to Display Featured Post Thumbnails In WordPress Feeds

WordPress does not allow featured post thumbnails in feeds even if you enable the post thumbnails support. But we have a solution for that. Here is how you can add post thumbnails to your WordPress RSS feeds with a simple function.

Just copy and paste this code snippet in your theme functions.php file and your RSS feeds will display featured post thumbnails along with content.

// display featured post thumbnails in WordPress feeds
function wcs_post_thumbnails_in_feeds( $content ) {
    global $post;
    if( has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) ) {
        $content = '<p>' . get_the_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) . '</p>' . get_the_content();
    }
    return $content;
}
add_filter( 'the_excerpt_rss', 'wcs_post_thumbnails_in_feeds' );
add_filter( 'the_content_feed', 'wcs_post_thumbnails_in_feeds' );