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Logo In RSS Feed – In WordPress Blogs And Elsewhere
February 11th, 2009 @ 08:47:52 | RSS, Showcase, Web, WordPress
I have been having the need (or want, as you may see fit) to display a logo in my RSS feed – for my WordPress powered blog as well as home-cooked Showcase. Couple things one needs to keep in mind when designing such logos is the following (information summarized from here):
- Maximum value for width is 144, default value is 88
- Maximum value for height is 400, default value is 31
In the following two sub-sections, I will show what I did to accomplish this thing.
Case #1. A WordPress Blog
It’s fairly simple to achieve it in that the following lines need to be put into functions.php, found within the theme of your choice. WordPress-provided hook, add_action(‘rss2_head’, ‘function_name’), puts this information in an appropriate place within the RSS feed.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | add_action('rss2_head', 'my_logo_rss'); # The value of <url> tag needs to point to the image. It DOES NOT have # to be within the WordPress folder. function my_logo_rss() { echo "<image>\n"; echo "\t<title>" . get_bloginfo('title') . "</title>\n"; echo "\t<url>" . get_bloginfo('siteurl)'. "/site_logo_rss.png</url>\n"; # echo "\t<url>http://your-site.com/images/site_logo_rss.png</url>\n"; echo "\t<link>" . get_bloginfo('url') . "</link>\n"; echo "\t<width>32</width>\n"; echo "\t<height>32</height>\n"; echo "\t</image>\n"; } |
Logo In RSS Feed – A WordPress Blog
Case #2. A Non-WordPress Blog
It’s fairly simple to achieve it even here – as long as one has access to a program/PHP file that generates the RSS feed. Add the following lines to the program, just before the first <item> begins (with values appropriate to your site of course), and that’s about it.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | echo "\t<image>\n"; echo "\t<title>scenic stopovers</title>\n"; echo "\t<url>http://sgowtham.net/images/site_logo_rss.png</url>\n"; echo "\t<link>http://sgowtham.net/</link>\n"; echo "\t<width>32</width>\n"; echo "\t<height>32</height>\n"; echo "\t</image>\n"; |
Logo In RSS Feed – A non-WordPress Blog
This Does NOT Seem To Be Working!
Believe it or not, it didn’t work for me either – not at least until I cleared out the browser cache and hit the refresh/reload button. I have heard that most RSS readers still don’t recognize this icon/logo thing yet but it doesn’t hurt to have it – when it does show up, it sure does feed our ego!
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Super-Duper website! I am loving it!!?! Will appear again again – taking you feeds also, Thanks.
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Awesome, Thx!