How to get photos to show up in rss feed from my ghost blog

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Creating posts with photos on my Ghost blog but when the post shows up on micro.blog its just the title and a link. Is there some magic to getting the photo thats on the post to also show up? Example: Kenosha Streetcar. The photo is the featured image on the post and the rss feed has:

<media:content url="https://notes.jasonkratz.me/content/images/2025/06/A9CC4AA4-0172-4B8E-BE64-650C516B72CA.jpeg" medium="image"/>

After some testing it seems that if I put the photo elsewhere in the post it shows up. If it’s the featured image it doesn’t.

I’d love to do photo posts from Ghost using the featured image and have them show up on micro.blog.

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For now you’ll have to also include the image in the post content, as you discovered. Micro.blog does have special support for the <media> tag in RSS, but the way Ghost is using it is not what Micro.blog expects. WordPress also uses <media> but in a slightly different way.

I’ll update Micro.blog in the future to better handle Ghost. Thanks!

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I’ve sorted this out. The change will be available in Micro.blog later today. If you still include the photo in the post contents, it will probably work the best with a variety of RSS readers.

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Oh cool. Thanks Manton. Totally forgot to see if I had a response to this :flushed: