If you’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.9 like me, you might have found that the Feedburner Feedsmith plugin recommended by Google and Feedburner has now stopped working. In fact, I couldn’t even upload it to a new site which hasn’t been upgraded to 2.9.
There’s been no word from Feedburner about this (No surprise, since their original Feedsmith plugin page itself returns an error and they appear to have taken a vow of silence since being acquired by Google).
Luckily some of the other Feedburner plugins work with 2.9. I’m currently using and recommending the FD Feedburner plugin by John Watson. Just install the plugin, enter your Feedburner feed address (The options are under the plugin menu), and you’re done.
(Note, the redirect may not go into action until you make a new post after installing the plugin – but if you create a test post and then delete it, it seems to work fine)
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1 MyNetWorthBlogger // Jan 3, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Thanks for the timely post! I've been trying to get it up and running to no avail. I will try your recommended plugin.
Much appreciated.
2 Brooke // Jan 12, 2010 at 3:59 am
Thankyou for your post, I had been wondering which plugin to use.
3 Vicki Willingham // Jan 31, 2010 at 11:07 am
Hopefully this will work for me.
4 gingerva // Feb 7, 2010 at 12:53 am
Thanks for the help.
5 Athena // Mar 11, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Thanks for the info! Just what I needed and just in time.
6 Guruprasad Ekambaranathan // Mar 13, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Thank you buddy.
7 Shan // Jul 11, 2010 at 7:52 pm
IS this even compatible with WP 3.0 or even necessary to make your feeds go to FeedBurner? Didn't FeedBurner do some sort of integration when they got eaten by Googel? LOL
8 Dan Thornton // Jul 14, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Hi,
There are two reasons for redirecting feeds to Feedburner, and only one which is really worthwhile at the moment.
The first is to get decent stats and analytics – sadly Feedburner has been increasingly unreliable on that side of things, and they appear to have done next to nothing since being acquired by Google.
The other is that you can easily integrate Adsense into your feeds, using your existing Adwords account – which is quite a bit more useful!
I'm still using the same plugin with 3.0 – if you want to manually recode your site to show the new address, then that's probably a better way to go in terms of cleaner code and loading times, but I've always had other things to work on first, and never got round to making all the manual changes!
9 Jennifer // Jul 19, 2010 at 12:41 am
Many thanks!
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