Changing image size in RSS feed
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Hi there. I have zero knowledge about RSS feeds, but apparently the size of images in my feed needs to be larger to appear better on Bloglovin. Can you tell me how to increase my image size?
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Hi there,
I’m not terribly familiar with bloglovin myself, but I just took a look at your site, and as an example, your post “Five things” (http://trysmallthings.com/?p=824), has images which are perfectly fine. We don’t have any way at this time to modify our RSS feeds to create larger images, we can only ensure that the images which are getting fed in to them are large enough in the first place, and this one (as an example) is perfectly fine and should work great.
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Hi there. Thanks for your quick reply. It seems I’m stuck. Bloglovin’ said “In your RSS-feed the images are quite small. Since we want them to fit our format, we make them larger to fit on our site and they get blurry. Try making them a bit large in your RSS-feed and the issue should be resolved.” Any other ideas? Any other site I’ve seen on Bloglovin’ has crisp, clear images.
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Hi Julie,
Thanks for clarifying. I am looking in to why our RSS feed is presenting some of your images at a smaller size than normal. As soon as I have some information from other departments, I’ll get back to you.
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Hey Julie,
The solution actually appears to be to set your thumbnail images to a larger size in order to satisfy the requirements of Bloglovin. It will result in the thumbnails being larger across your site, but the resolution will improve in your RSS feeds as well.
You can do this by going in to your Dashboard and then going to Settings >> Media. The very first setting is the dimensions for your thumbnails. Change that from 150 x 150 to 300 x 300, and it should be large enough for Bloglovin.
Let me know if that doesn’t work!
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Thanks so much, amightywp! It worked for the five most recent posts on Bloglovin’, but not for the others. I changed the thumbnail size to 300 x 300 and then 500 x 500 but it didn’t make a difference. Any other ideas?
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On a similar page (Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading), there is a setting which controls how many posts show up in your RSS feed. Right now you have it set to 7, which might be why Bloglovin is only seeing a handful of posts correctly. I would try increasing that and then waiting a bit (the RSS feed can take a while to update), and then giving it another try.
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I’m so glad that made it work. Filing it away for the future.
Let me know if you need anything else!
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Dagnabbit, now my pictures don’t appear at all! Might you have an idea why? :) I’ve also contacted Bloglovin’.
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Hiya,
I don’t, I’m afraid. I just took a look at your feed and the images are at 300px like they should be, so I can’t imagine why they aren’t working for you. If Bloglovin’ can give any insight I’ll be happy to investigate on our end based on their feedback.
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Thanks for your quick reply. :) Bloglovin’ said: “In order to get your images on Bloglovin, your RSS-feed needs to contain images. If your RSS-feed is not containing any images, this is the reason why Bloglovin is not displaying them. In this case, you will have to change the settings of your RSS-feed and not the settings on Bloglovin. Also, the images needs to be saved in .jpg format.” Hmm.
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Well, that’s strange. Here is your RSS feed:
http://trysmallthings.com/feed/
As you can see, your images are in JPG format and are present in your feed. Also, they were appearing previously on Bloglovin’, weren’t they? Did they mention if anything changed on their end?
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Hi again. Thanks so much for continuing to help me with this. Here’s what Bloglovin’ said: “It seems like this tiny image is included in your posts and that is the one we pull: http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=trysmallthings.com&blog=67113277&post=882&subd=trysmallthings&ref=&feed=1
You can resolve the issue by removing the small image or move it to the bottom of the post.” -
I’m sad to say that I don’t have as good a news in this case. We recently (a few days ago) made a small change in how our systems load the tiny pixel which is used to track visitors to our users’ sites (that’s the pixel.wp.com which the Bloglovin’ folks mentioned).
The pixel is necessary to our system and cannot be turned off. Most RSS feed readers don’t see this pixel and load your photos for your posts normally (I just checked yours a few minutes ago to double-verify), but apparently Bloglovin’s algorithm is a bit choosy and still sees that pixel.
Some of our developers are already in touch with Bloglovin and are trying to sort all of this out (ALL of it, including the issue you were having before with the weird sizing problems), but for now we don’t have a solution.
I’m really sorry that after all of this epic work we have to hit a roadblock, but I have high hopes that it is a temporary one!
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