Images in RSS feeds using the RSS widget are not displayed
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I’m using the widget to display my other RSS feeds which contain images consistent with RSS specifications. But those images are not shown, just the title and text content. How do I get those images to display?
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Please post an active link starting with http:// to the blog in question. The domain name linked to your username returns these reports:
http://ismyblogworking.com/www.keligo.info – your blog is broken
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Here is the wordpress blog page.
http://roadhogblog.wordpress.com/
The right column shows two RSS feeds “imported” using the RSS widget.
Here are the addresses for those feeds:
http://www.enfeedia.com/see/carolmurrayrealestate/marketnews.xml
http://www.enfeedia.com/see/carolmurrayrealestate/plumascounty.xml -
The only image that will be displayed by the RSS widget is the orange RSS icon http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/
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That’s unfortunate, to say the least. Embedding an image in the description element of the feed is consistent with specs (and the feed successfully validates), and is supported by every feed reader I’ve experienced. All browsers support it (try it with my feeds). It looks like text links are also being stripped out of descriptions. Does WordPress filter out all tags in the item description including the benign font tag and formatting tags?
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If you are trying to work around the fact that WordPress.com does not provide any tools that can be used to autofill posts or pages then what you have now is the best you can get. The focus here is on original blogging so tools for autofilling with duplicate content are not provided.
Automated blogs: Blogs that are generated by computers, including randomly generated blogs, blogs that re-publish press releases, marketing material, search engine results, link dumps or any other mass-produced content. http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
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No, not trying to autofill or autopost anything. The feeds comprise items posted with original material by the feed owner, a person. Nothing randomly generated, nothing re-published, etc. Specifically, the owner would post real estate listings on one of the feeds and present it in the sidebar, to correlate with the blog generated by wordpress. In other words, she will blog about real estate, and in the sidebar show her listings (that are items on a feed she publishes elsewhere).
I’m thinking WordPress wants to “dumb down” feeds published elsewhere so as to discourage the use of that RSS widget. With some other testing I did, it looks like WordPress strips all tags out of the description such that one can’t even include a text link in an item description and have it presented properly, as an active link. A text link is simple html code, benign. I can see reluctance to allow iframes or objects, but text links?
I very much appreciate your rapid reply to my questions, it’s refreshing not to have to wait days on a forum to get a reply, and then when you do get one, it’s so often off the mark. Again, thank you.
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Are you aware of the duplicate content issue and the Google Panda algorithm update?
[opinion] I think WordPress.com wants to remain as a blogging platform that supports original content blogging and has no intentions of becoming an aggregation platform. I think it’s wise to strip all tags out of the RSS link widget description and not have images or active links. Opening that door and/or the autofilled content door means this platform would experience an immediate ingress of sploggers and spammers and/or those who will link to dubious sites in RSS Links widgets. [/opinion]
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I’m quite aware of the potential danger of duplicate content. It’s also common practice for one to syndicate a feed on one’s website, and by definition, that creates (some amount of) duplicate content. But note the word “substantive” in the Google article you reference: “Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content…”. So, if the syndicated feed is a relatively minor part of the total page content, things are fine. And yes, aware of the Panda update.
Regarding original content, the RSS feed in question is original content by the feed author. And she has the desire to syndicate it on her WordPress site. I do indeed understand that rampant use of the RSS widget might start to make one’s WordPress site look like an aggregator (but without any of the features of an aggregator). I would be happy to see some limit to the number of feeds that one would import using the RSS widget, maybe as few as one. :-)
But I don’t agree with stripping out tags that are benign such as text links. WordPress can insert the nofollow attribute in the tag if one is concerned about someone trying to game WordPress for SEO reasons. Likewise, an image is benign. But some other tags are not, and those could be selectively stripped, simple stuff. If the only tags allowed were <img>, ,, <b>, <i>, <font>, and of course , that would be great.
I don’t know that WordPress should be in the business of trying to decide what constitutes a dubious site. Yes, everyone will agree that some are at least dubious, but it’s a slippery slope.
Anyway, I suppose this discussion is closed and what is is what is. :-) Again, thank you.
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