RSS feed not displaying image in Mailchimp newsletter from my Wordpress feed

Question

I am using regular Mailchimp tags to create my rss feed but the image is not displaying. Looks like the issue is with the CONTENT tag not being CONTENT_FULL tag, in which case it's treated as a description and the image is not displayed. Anyone has come across this problem or has any solutions to this issue? Thanks

*|INTERESTED:What are you interested in?:Fashion|*
*|FEEDBLOCK:http://url.com/feed|* *|FEEDITEMS:[$count=2]|* 
*|FEEDITEM:SOURCE_TITLE|* 
*|FEEDITEM:CONTENT|*
*|FEEDITEM:IMAGE|*
*|END:FEEDITEMS|* *|END:FEEDBLOCK|* *|END:INTERESTED|*

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with Shopify images not showing up on Mailchimp. The problem was to do with the format of the (cdn-hosted) image urls and was solved here:

Shopify blog feeding mailchimp campaign doesn't display images

I don't know if your issue is the same but the solution may be useful to you.

Answer 2

That's an old question, but just in case someone else needs the solution- The featured image can be shown inside the FEEDITEM:CONTENT or the FEEDITEM:IMAGE tags. If the image doesn't show, you can't fix it from Mailchimp, but you need to alter your RSS feed. There are actually 2 solutions for this issue:

1. Using the FEEDITEM:IMAGE - according to Mailchimp RSS Merge Tags page:

To help ensure that Mailchimp can view your feed's images, you can include medium or type information inside the media:content tag. Examples: <media:content url="http://example.com/example.jpg" medium="image"> <media:content url="http://example.com/example.jpg" type="image/jpg"> To add this media:content> tag to your RSS feed you can add the following code to your functions.php file:

        /**
     * Featured image to RSS Feed.
     */
    function dn_add_rss_image() {
        global $post;
    
        $output = '';
        if ( has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) ) {
            $thumbnail_ID = get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID );
            $thumbnail = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $thumbnail_ID, 'full' ); /** 'full' can be changed to 'medium' or 'thumbnail' */
    
            $output .= '<media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" medium="image" type="image/jpeg"';
            $output .= ' url="'. $thumbnail[0] .'"';
            $output .= ' width="100%"'; /** here you can add styles */
            $output .= ' object-fit="cover"';
            $output .= ' />';
        }
        echo $output;
    }
add_action( 'rss2_item', 'dn_add_rss_image' );

2. Using the FEEDITEM:CONTENT tag to display the image inside the content part along with the description and all:

for this method you just need to add the featured image inside the description tag in your RSS feed. The easiest way for doing so is actually using the plugin Featured Image In RSS Feed