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Include the post thumbnail in your RSS feed.
// Put post thumbnails into rss feed
function itlc_feed_post_thumbnail($content) {
global $post;
if(has_post_thumbnail($post->ID)) {
$content = '' . $content;
}
return $content;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'itlc_feed_post_thumbnail');
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'itlc_feed_post_thumbnail');