Moving Your Wordpress Feed to Feedburner
We’ve talked about Feedburner and Feedsmith before, but I had a site recently that I wanted to move it’s feed over to FeedBurner and was concerned that I might lose all the sites current subscribers.
It appears reading a few blogs that the redirect functionality of the plugin means that won’t happen at all! and Feedsmith, has been adopted by Feedburner itself!
Here’s what it does in the developers own words:
Using some WordPress plugin magic, and user-agent detection, this plugin simply forwards all your feed traffic to FeedBurner. The plugin will detect all ways to access your feed (e.g. http://www.yoursite.com/feed/ or http://www.yoursite.com/wp-rss2.php, etc.), and redirect them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. It will forward for your main posts feed, and optionally your main comments feed as well.
There are a few issues with letting Feedburner run your feed, one being you can’t have separate feeds for separate categories (not without creating a separate Feedburner Feed for each one), this isn’t something I think I need - most of my sites are sufficiently different in content.
Converting from one to the other has taken just seven minute - it actually took longer to write this post! So what are you waiting for, do it today and take advantage of Feedburner’s features!
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