Photos Not Displayed in Reader
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Why aren’t my photos being displayed in the Reader? The question mark icon indicates that I’ve opted for WordPress to only show a summary of my posts.
Since when?!? They’ve been showing all along – until this new Reader format. We post photos because we want people to SEE them!!!
I have NO idea how or where to modify any settings to only display summaries. WHY has this changed all of a sudden?
HELP please!!!
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I asked the same question on this thread: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/reader-view/page/4?replies=118#post-2427325
This is WP’s answer: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/reader-view/page/4?replies=118#post-2427344
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We stopped displaying images for summary feeds earlier today.
To get pictures to show up for your blog in the Reader, you can go to WP Admin > Settings > Reading, change the feed setting from “Summary” to Full text” and save changes.
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It would have been nice to have an announcement of some kind with a thorough explanation of the changes. Like many others here, I’m not sure I like what’s been done. I liked the Reader just the way it was. I’m stumped as to why these changes were made.
A little PR goes a long way toward happy customers…
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Please see https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/reader-refresh/
The announcement is more of an overview, and then there are quite a few details explained in the accompanying comments too.
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Once again WP makes changes then waits for the unpaid bloggers to do their beta testing for them.
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I would say it’s more like: we designed, tested, developed, made changes, listened to feedback, made more changes, listened to more feedback, and will continue to make updates based on several different factors. (roughly, it’s possible there are more steps I didn’t know about or didn’t think of)
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Woe is WordPress! What have you done to the Reader? It is galling and frustrating and I agree with all the other unpaid bloggers that a little communication would go a long way. I would love to know how we can participate in your testing and development process. Do you use peole from the actual blogging communitiy (ie, not superusers) but dummies like me who like to create good content, not spend time tweaking the technology?
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We stopped displaying images for summary feeds earlier today.
To get pictures to show up for your blog in the Reader, you can go to WP Admin > Settings > Reading, change the feed setting from “Summary” to Full text” and save changes.
Does this apply in the case of featured images also?
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However setting to Full Text reduces traffic to a site since the entire Post goes out in the email – so no reason for someone to visit your site – also Full Text makes it easier for your blog to be scrapped – just put a feed in a page – great “improvements”
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@kokkieh, right now it does, yes. We may update again if a lot of readers send feedback saying they miss images for summary feeds. It’s a tricky balance on that.
@auxclass, yes, and I suppose it comes down to whether your goal is to share your content in various formats (i.e. email subscriptions too) or if you are more stats-driven or want to try your hardest to get people to always click through so they can see your content in the design where you created it. For the first case, full text feeds make sense and summary feeds with restricted content forcing a click to get to the post from email is a good option for the other cases. It’s a trade-off!
For the record, are you in favor of adding images back to summary feeds? I’m trying to get a feel for what readers really think about that since some updates on it went in yesterday.
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@melingeneva, yes, some, but I would like to do more! Are you interested in participating in that by any chance?
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For the record, are you in favor of adding images back to summary feeds?
As far as featured images go, yes. My theme doesn’t use featured images on the home page and I only upload large enough images for a custom post header for certain specific categories, so in most cases I only assign a featured image so it can appear with my extract in the Reader and in Facebook and Twitter shares.
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I work very hard to make the first image and the first paragraph a good lead to have people visit my site – so yes I think a single image would help
as for the stats vs/ sharing – I have the subscribe button to make it easy for people to follow my site
I think the share widely vs/ summery is a false argument – yes I want people to visit – then maybe they will find other articles that are helpful or interesting – for someone that gets the whole Post in an email I see not much reason to visit – also that makes the email quite large in some cases – also full text makes it easier to steal an entire blog (or at least to the limit of the number of items in the feed) – which reduces the need to visit the full site
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I would say it’s more like: we designed, tested, developed, made changes, listened to feedback, made more changes, listened to more feedback, and will continue to make updates based on several different factors. (roughly, it’s possible there are more steps I didn’t know about or didn’t think of)
Well said.
@auxclass
re: full text vs summary feed settingsI’m with you on this. The last thing I want or need is full posts display in the Reader and full posts emailed to me, but we should not fail to mention that those using mobiles can read full posts regardless of the summary setting.
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Adding my vote for the return of at least the Featured image in the Reader if a site is set to Summary feed.
OT/ @melingeneva We’re all participants in testing and development here.
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@designsimply
I’ll weigh to say that only one featured image per post in the Reader is something I will support. -
I think a single image in the Reader should help traffic for some sites – I will use mine as an example – say I have a Post on a knot – a person looks at the image and says to the effect “interesting, never seen that one before” – then if I do a good job with the lead text and explain why the knot is a good one to learn – then I think people would be more apt to visit.
A couple of times a site that picks up my stuff from time to time – did not like my lead picture and they changed the picture to one that illustrated the article better – they are both professional journalists with many years experience in the newspaper business as both writers and editors
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Consistency should be the goal. Either all the blog posts have a picture or none of the blog posts have a picture.
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Consistency should be the goal. Either all the blog posts have a picture or none of the blog posts have a picture.
Some of a blogger’s posts may not have an embedded image or a featured image to display, so I’m not clear on what you mean by that.
As for me I don’t want to have galleries displayed in the Reader nor do I want any images, other than a featured image, where one has been set in a post, to be displayed in the Reader.
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