Feature Images

In the past, I’ve experimented with 3rd party photo blogs and cross posted to Micro.blog. Inevitably I dropped this process because I didn’t like linking to externally hosted photos from my Micro.blog. Now that Micro.blog imports photos, having both is appealing to me.

However, when I post a feature image on an external blog like Ghost, those images just don’t come over to Micro.blog. Ghost treats feature images differently in that they will be the photo shown in the article list on the index page. By not using a feature image, there will be no photo shown.

Is there a particular reason Micro.blog doesn’t import or link to feature images?

If it’s not in the content of the RSS or JSON feed, and it’s not in the content of the post itself, it’s not part of what is being imported. The source features work on RSS— my guess is that Ghost RSS feeds that you’re using don’t have featured images in them either.

Ah, how presumptuous of me. I’ll dig into the RSS feed. Thanks.