How to ensure my RSS-feed contains images?

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  petitworldcitizen · Member · Sep 15, 2014 at 11:18 am

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  I’ve opened an account on Bloglovin. I “claimed” my blog and it appears on their site. However, the photos attached to each post do not appear on Bloglovin. According to Bloglovin, this problem has to do with my WordPress RSS-feed not containing images. I’ve tried to change RSS and Meta settings by adding widgets, but since there has been no change, I assume I’m not changing the settings as necessary. Please help! My blog is petitworldcitizen.com

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  barbiebeaton · Member · Sep 16, 2014 at 4:56 pm

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  I am having the same problem on optimisticmisfit.com
  Looking forward to the response.
  Thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 16, 2014 at 5:00 pm

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  @petitworldcitizen
  This is your RSS Feed URL for your posts https://petitworldcitizen.com/feed/ Note that all Media Files including image files is in it. No setting adjustments of any kind are required. It is a valid feed.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 16, 2014 at 5:02 pm

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  @barbiebeaton
  This is the URL for the feed for your posts http://optimisticmisfit.com/feed/ My response is the same as above. The feed is valid and contains all Media Files including image files.

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  petitworldcitizen · Member · Sep 23, 2014 at 5:22 pm

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  @timethief
  Thanks for your response but my photos/thumbnail do not appear on Bloglovin. When I contacted them about this they said it had to do with WordPress and my RSS feed.

  Also, I tried to link to the RSS feed URL you provided but it says Safari cannot open it. Do I have to have a special app for my RSS feed? Your time and advice is very much appreciated.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Sep 24, 2014 at 3:18 pm

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  Hi there,

  Right now, both petitworldcitizen.com and optimisticmisfit.com are set to only show a summary of each blog post in the RSS feed. You can change that in your blog’s Reading Settings, under Settings > Reading in the blog’s dashboard.

  Next to “For each article in a feed, show” you can choose “Full text.” That will make sure the full text of your posts, including the images, are included in your feed and displayed in feed readers.

  Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)

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  barbiebeaton · Member · Sep 24, 2014 at 4:38 pm

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  Thank you Rachel!

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  petitworldcitizen · Member · Sep 26, 2014 at 1:14 am

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  Hi Rachel. Thanks for your note. I tried your suggestion, but I still don’t see my blog post photos on Bloglovin. Anything else I can try? Thanks again.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Sep 26, 2014 at 11:29 am

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  @petitworldcitizen

  It may just take a little time for Bloglovin to update and get the information from your new feed. I checked your feed, and all of the photos are there: http://petitworldcitizen.com/feed/

  If those photos still don’t show up, you may want to try resubmitting the feed to Bloglovin.

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  petitworldcitizen · Member · Oct 7, 2014 at 12:21 am

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  I contacted Bloglovin again. They believe the problem may be an image on my posts:
  http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=petitworldcitizen.com&blog=53857146&post=4920&subd=petitworldcitizen&ref=&feed=1

  I can’t seem to access the link but I’m told it’s a blank screen with a dot. I’m not sure how to remove this from my posts as it seems to be the problem. Do you have any advice on how I can remove this? Thanks!

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  rachelmcr · Member · Oct 7, 2014 at 11:47 am

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  Hi there,

  That image is used to track your site’s stats and can’t be removed. Did Bloglovin let you know why that particular image is an issue? It doesn’t prevent your other photos from appearing in your blog’s feed, so if they can give us more details about why it’s a problem we can see if there’s something we can do to help from our end.

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  petitworldcitizen · Member · Oct 7, 2014 at 1:15 pm

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  Rachel,

  Is the image a JPEG? They said before that all images have to be in that format.

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  petitworldcitizen · Member · Oct 7, 2014 at 1:18 pm

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  Rachel,
  This is the message I received:

  I believe I have located the issue. It seems like this tiny image is included in your posts and that is the one we pull.

  Here is an example of an image address within one of your posts:
  http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=petitworldcitizen.com&blog=53857146&post=4920&subd=petitworldcitizen&ref=&feed=1

  You can resolve the issue by removing the small image or move it to the bottom of the post. Images must be jpegs to appear on Bloglovin

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  rachelmcr · Member · Oct 7, 2014 at 5:07 pm

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  Thanks for forwarding the message from them. They mentioned that the issue can be resolved by moving the image to the bottom of the post. It’s actually already at the very bottom of the post, so it sounds like they may have an issue with how they pull the image from the post. Unfortunately, there’s not much we can do from this end if they aren’t grabbing images correctly from your posts.