How to Make your RSS Feeds Pop in WordPress


I got this idea from reading Darren Rowse’s entry, How to Make Your RSS Feeds POP Using Images

The hack will add a nice graphic to accompany your RSS feeds to make it “POP”.

First open the wp-rss2.php file located in the root directory of your WordPress Installation.

Find a line that have something like this.

<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=<?php bloginfo_rss('version'); ?> </generator>
<language><?php echo get_option('rss_language'); ?<

Then add these lines directly below it.

<image>
    <url>http://yourwebsite.com/img/feedpop.png</url>
    <title>Your website name  </title>
    <link>http://yourwebsite.com/</link>
</image>

upload the file back to the webserver, and you shall have an RSS feed with a nice graphic on it.
example : http://blog.fakap.net/rss.xml

Why dont you use WordPress Plugins
Using excessive plugins may slow down your WordPress blog installation, upgrades tends to be troublesome on plugins-ladden WordPress blog.

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