Comments on: Two Weeks

By: alexmansfield

alexmansfield — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:11:15 +0000

Perfect. Thanks. I’ll add that to my post on setting up Feedburner, if you don’t mind.

By: Brian Purkiss

Brian Purkiss — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:08:31 +0000

I hardcoded it into the theme. It is actually not that hard and has several benefits. For example.
When I subscribe to a blog, it isn’t because they have a shiny RSS button. It’s because I like the content. I normally click on the RSS icon in the address bar. That is what I did and it doesn’t go to your feedburner page. Hardcoding it into your theme also allows many automated services to nab your feedburner RSS feed instead of your WordPress RSS feed.

So. Like I said, it isn’t hard at all to hard code your feedburner into the theme. I’m pretty sure I know what plugin you’re using. That takes care of all the links. But not that icon in the address bar. If you add this:

to the and remove the old, then you’ll be covered.

By: alexmansfield

alexmansfield — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:45:51 +0000

Actually, I just set up Feedburner the other day. However, I used a plugin to handle it on the WordPress side rather than edit the theme, since I’m not planning on keeping this theme. It seems that rather than change the link itself, it just redirects. So if you click the RSS feed link it will redirect to Feedburner. But if you just copy the link target, you get the WordPress feed. Guess I need to go in and change it in the theme. Did you use a plugin or put it straight into the theme?

By: Brian Purkiss

Brian Purkiss — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:32:19 +0000

I just subscribed to your RSS feed and noticed you aren’t using Feedburner.
Any particular reason?
Feedburner is a great way of keeping track of RSS Subscriber stats.
Just something for you to consider.

Best of luck in your blogging endeavors!