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.

Code (php)
  1.  
  2. <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=<?php bloginfo_rss(’version’); ?> </generator>
  3. <language><?php echo get_option(‘rss_language’); ?<</language>
  4.        
  5.  

Then add these lines directly below it.

Code (php)
  1.  
  2. <image>
  3.     <url>http://yourwebsite.com/img/feedpop.png</url>
  4.     <title>Your website name  </title>
  5.     <link>http://yourwebsite.com/</link>
  6. </image>
  7.  

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

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