Display Post Thumbnails in the Feed

Lots of themes these days make use of post thumbnails or featured images but these aren’t included in your RSS feed by default. To add them in, add the following to your theme’s functions.php file.

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// show post thumbnails in feeds
function diw_post_thumbnail_feeds($content) {
    global $post;
    if(has_post_thumbnail($post->ID)) {
        $content = '<div>' . get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID) . '</div>' . $content;
    }
    return $content;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'diw_post_thumbnail_feeds');
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'diw_post_thumbnail_feeds');

// show post thumbnails in feeds
function diw_post_thumbnail_feeds($content) {
	global $post;
	if(has_post_thumbnail($post->ID)) {
		$content = '<div>' . get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID) . '</div>' . $content;
	}
	return $content;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'diw_post_thumbnail_feeds');
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'diw_post_thumbnail_feeds');

Source: digwp

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