Is a no RSS plugin setup supposed to work?

Question

I'm using WP 3.1.2 as provided by Awardspace, a free hosting service. I haven't made any configuration regarding RSS but it seems to work on Google Reader. However, pictures and flash elements won't appear. Is this normal? Should I get a plugin then?

Thanks in advance - Victor.

Answer 1

When you say pictures, you mean post thumbnails ?

If yes, then you can add them to your RSS feeds like this, add in functions.php

function rss_post_thumbnail( $content ) {
    global $post;
    if( has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) ) {
        $content = '<p>' . get_the_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) . '</p>' . get_the_content();
    }
    return $content;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'rss_post_thumbnail');
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'rss_post_thumbnail');