FD Feedburner Plugin for WordPress
Redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com. It does this seamlessly without the need to modify templates, setup new hidden feeds, modify .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed. All existing feeds simply become Feedburner feeds seamlessly and transparently for all users. Just tell the plugin what your Feedburner feed URL is and you’re done.
Requirements
- Wordpress 2.0 or higher.
- Compatible with all web servers including Apache and IIS.
Installation
To install the plugin:
- Copy fdfeedburner.php into wp-content/plugins.
- Activate the plugin from the Plugins tab in WordPress.
Usage
- First, go to feedburner.com and burn your feed.
- Then go to the plugin configuration by clicking the Plugins menu and then clicking the Feedburner Plugin sub-menu.
- Enter the Feedburner feed URL.
- If the “Append category slug to feedburner URL” option is enabled, category feeds will be redirected to your main feed with the category slug appended. For example, if you’re main feed is “feeds.feedburner.com/myfeed” and your category slug is “music” then the feed for that category will be redirected to “feeds.feedburner.com/myfeed_music”.
Known issues
After you configure your feed, due to caching it probably won’t redirect to Feedburner until you make a new post.
Nothing else that I know of. Let me know if it doesn’t work for you.
License
Copyright (C) 2006 John Watson
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Version history
- 1.0 Sat Feb 18 2006 Initial release
- 1.1 Thu Aug 24 2006 Added “append category slug” option
- 1.2 Tue Nov 14 2006 Fixed comment feed redirecting bug
- 1.3 Wed Apr 9 2008 Now supports FeedBurner MyBrand service.
- 1.31 Thu May 1, 2008 Fixed bug allowing non-admins to modify feed URL
RSS Feed
Posted 10 weeks ago
Niiiiiiice. You never cease to amaze me.
Posted 5 weeks ago
hi there, just wondering what the difference between this plugin and the official fb one might be
http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=78483&topic=13252
? thanks!
Posted 5 weeks ago
They’re mostly the same except
* this one can also redirect categories to different Feedburner URLs if you want that level of tracking.
* this one is licensed under the GPL which means you’re allowed to modify it. I couldn’t find the Feedsmith license.
* this one is in the WordPress plugin directory so you’ll get automatic notifications in your WordPress admin if it is updated.
* I’m more likely to respond to feature requests in a timely manner than Google/Feedburner is.
Plus, I can personally guarantee that no fuzzy animals were harmed to create this plugin.
Posted 5 weeks ago
Hi.
I think FD Feedburner Plugin 1.2 might not be compatible with WP 2.5.
Upon entering the feed location, all I get is a “Are you sure you want to do this?” on the confirmation page, with no buttons (or any other text).
This is with Safari and also Firefox 3.0b5 and Flock 1.1.1 (FF 2.0 based).
Thought you might like to know!
Take care!
Posted 5 weeks ago
That’s strange. I’m running WP 2.5 and it works for me using Firefox.
Is that the *exact* message you get? There are similar messages in WordPress that I can find but not that one. It’d help track this down.
Posted 5 weeks ago
This my be a stupid question, but why not just edit the actual RSS feed rather than all this re-direct/re-write stuff. This plugin seems much more straight forward to me.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-feedlocations/
Am I missing something? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
Posted 5 weeks ago
Feedburner has to get the feed from you in order to burn it. This plugin allows you to use the same url (/feed) for both your public feed and as the source for Feedburner.
It also will redirect readers of your existing feed to Feedburner automatically. So one day if you decide to start using Feedburner you don’t have to tell your readers to switch to a new feed URL.
The plugin you linked to just changes links in your templates. So if you started using Feedburner you’d still have a bunch of subscribers using your old feed URL and only new subscribers would get on your Feedburner feed.
Posted 5 weeks ago
So it would seem if I was starting a site from scratch, with no audience, it would make sense to just use the simpler plugin I mentioned above.
This way my HTML in the header is actually correct as well.
This is a newbies opinion, and I really respect yours, so does my logic make sense? Thanks for your time on this.
Posted 5 weeks ago
Just had another thought. It seems that feed URLs “http://site.com/feed/rss2″ could still work, but now it’s not tracked through feedburner, so you may have users you unaware of subscribed to your site. That is what the whole rewrite thing solves.
Why not sue both plugins. Yours for re-writing the about URL feed, and the other for getting the header HTML type=”application/rss+xml” working correctly.
Thoughts? or is something conflicting going on here?
Posted 5 weeks ago
Technically, the HTML in the header is correct. It’s just not the end destination.
You could use both but you don’t need to. This plugin redirects ALL of your feeds, even ones at /feed/atom, /feed/rss2, etc.
Actually, I think you’d get the problem you describe using that feedlocations plugin because it doesn’t actually change the URLs, it just rewrites the links in your template.
Posted 5 weeks ago
Is it possible to have the option of not pasting in “feeds.feedburner.com”?
I want to use the MyBrand function so my feeds will look like “feeds.rightlydivide.info”. When I plug in the URL on the Settings page I get “http://feeds.feedburner.com/feeds.rightlydivide.info/rightlydivideinfo”
Posted 5 weeks ago
I get precisely the same problem as Michael Collins above in Firefox (text is exact) however IE7 appears to play nicely
Posted 5 weeks ago
@Craig, I think it might be a compatibility problem with another plugin. Can you disable all of your other plugins and see if that helps?
@Mark, that’s a good idea. I can’t remember why it worked that way except that maybe I wanted to make sure people didn’t put in an invalid URL. I’ve just updated the plugin. Version 1.3 lets you use a Feedburner MyBrand URL.
Posted 4 weeks ago
Thanks for this handy feed re-directer John!
Old computer-nerd-hopeless-impossible-for-us-non-geeks-to-understand-style:
“Feedburner Feed URL”
“Feedburner Comments URL”
New style that saves 20-30 min search time and testing per person, which is 500 hours per 1000 new users:
“Feedburner Feed URL (example: http://feeds.feedburner.com/YourFeedburnerName”
“Feedburner Comments URL (example: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/YourFeedburnerName/~3/”
or is the: “Feedburner Comments URL” this?:
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/livefeed?id=1234567
or:
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/livexml?id=1234567
or ???
Could you include these two link examples in the “Wordpress Feedburner Configuration” location, and at: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedburner-plugin/installation/
and in your “readme.txt ?
Sorry if I sound a bit upset, but it takes days to just insert all the great job that you and others have done to improve Wordpress etc.
And please tell me which code to use for “Feedburner Comments URL”.
Thanks,
Mats.
Posted 4 weeks ago
Every WordPress blog has a post feed (/feed) and a comments feed (/comments/feed).
You can burn either or both at FeedBurner to track them. For example, you might burn your feeds like this:
Posts: feeds.feedburner.com/YourSite
Comments: feeds.feedburner.com/YourSiteComments
Then paste those into the appropriate boxes for the plugin.
Posted 4 weeks ago
Mine was working until I upgraded. What did I do wrong? I’ve taken off my icon until I get it right. Feedburner can’t find my feed now.
Unfortunately feeds always confuse me.
Posted 4 weeks ago
Upgraded the plugin or upgraded WordPress? Is your feed http://susanodea.com/feed? It looks like your feed is completely empty and the plugin is deactivated.
Posted 4 weeks ago
I wanted to upgrade to this plugin but then found out I could add “&& !is_tag” in the ol_feed_redirect() to get the feedburner wp plugin to work with my tag pages.
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Posted 2 weeks ago
Hey John, does this allow author feeds normally located at http://domain.com/author/USER/rss/ ?
Thanks!
Posted 2 weeks ago
It should redirect them (I think. I haven’t actually ever used an author feed) but it redirects them all to the same feedburner feed.
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Posted 13 days ago
I have a question. OK great we have a place to set the Feedburner URL (cool). Now we need to have add a form to or the icon to subscribe the the RSS of this blog (cool).
Question:
How can we include in the sidebar.php a generic form (Subscribe by Email) so this sidebar.php can be used in a multiblog site. In other words, to have a generic subscription. In that way the blogger, can install the plugin and his reader can subscribe to his blog.
I hope i was clear…I am using Lyceum
http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/
Pat
Posted 13 days ago
Sorry, if you’re using Lyceum you’re on your own. I’ve never used it, I don’t intend to use it, and I don’t know if the plugin is compatible.
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Posted 10 days ago
Your plugin is really useful and easy to use, but there’s a little issue: every subscriber to my site could access the plugin configuration page and change the URL of the Feedburner Feed.
In my case a user (registered as contributor) did exactly this, she didn’t know that she wasn’t supposed to do that. She, actually, figured out that that page was for her profile info and not the feed URL of the our site.
As a result: we had the url redirecting to a wrong feed for an entire day.
So I stepped into fdfeedburner.php and changed this line
add_submenu_page(’plugins.php’, __(’Feedburner Configuration’), __(’Feedburner Configuration’), 1, __FILE__, ‘feedburner_conf’);
to
add_submenu_page(’plugins.php’, __(’Feedburner Configuration’), __(’Feedburner Configuration’), 7, __FILE__, ‘feedburner_conf’);
And that’s all folks!
I’d suggest to do the same into the next release of this plugin ;)
Cheers.
http://www.giornalettismo.com
Posted 10 days ago
Thanks, Frank. New version 1.31 includes that fix.
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Posted 1 day ago
This plugin is wonderful. Thank you very much for all your efforts.