Why aren't my images showing up on my (drupal powered) RSS feed?

August 23, 2008 2:38 PM

Why aren't images showing up in my blog RSS feed? (Drupal CMS question)

I'm using the Drupal image module for a blog project. No images are showing up in my RSS feed. I know this module creates a separate node for each image and "attaches" it to the related post.. is there a drupal (6.x compatible) image module that will allow users to upload images AND have them included in the post/node proper (and in turn, my RSS feed)?

posted by serial_consign to computers & internet (6 comments total)

Are your RSS feeds set to full text, or are you only showing snippets?

Also, do you see the title for the image posts, or are they gone from the feed altogether?
posted by meta_eli at 8:47 AM on August 24, 2008

here is the feed

The feeds are set to full text, and there is no title for the images. My newsreader (newnewswire) lists the images as enclosures (i.e. something I can download) and google reader does NOT display the images at all.
posted by serial_consign at 1:17 PM on August 24, 2008

Ah, you're using image_attach? That's how it's designed to work. The thinking being, I guess, that since you're "attaching" the image to the node they should be enclosures rather than inline links?

I dunno. I think either you need to edit the module or find a different module. I would probably just use CCK to create a new content type with an Image Field in it and then use that for my image posts. The nice thing there is then you can also add other fields (caption, source, whatever) pretty easily.
posted by meta_eli at 1:52 PM on August 24, 2008

You might get better help by posting on drupal.org or by asking in #drupal on Freenode IRC, by the way.
posted by meta_eli at 1:53 PM on August 24, 2008

Yeah. ImageField will probably serve you better here. Among other things, it will allow the image to be inline as part of the node content. You'll need a couple of accompany modules: FileField and ImageAPI modules are all part of the mix for it, but it's pretty flexibly and should do what you're looking for.
posted by verb at 10:59 PM on August 24, 2008

Great! Thanks verb and meta-eli. I appreciate the advice..
posted by serial_consign at 7:07 AM on August 25, 2008