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.
If you put AdSense advertising in your feed then Google will automatically redirect your feed again to feedproxy.google.com. That works seamlessly and transparently with this plugin. However, there are reported issues with feedproxy.google.com that may cause your subscriber counts to be off. Some people mistake this for a problem with the plugin but it is not.
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
- 1.4 Thu Aug 28, 2008 Fixed incompatibility between FD Feedburner and GigPress, fixed bug with appending category name to feed with default permalink structure, added option to not redirect category/tag feeds
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Hi,
I was told to get this plugin for my wordpress blog.
I’m getting this error:
HTTP Error Code: 500
Detail: There was a problem retrieving the feed: com.burningdoor.rsspp.resource.impl.HttpConnectionException: Error getting URL: 400 – Recursive feed redirection error: Are requests for your ‘Original Feed’ address — the feed that FeedBurner is checking for updates — being redirected to your FeedBurner feed? Make sure your Original Feed is provided from a web address that isn’t redirected to FeedBurner.
Should I delete my feedburner url and start fresh?
John
I don’t know. Are you still having this problem? I noticed your feed is currently redirected to Feedburner. How did you solve it?
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Tested your plugin on Wordpress 2.7 Beta 2 – works perfectly.
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Hi there,
I’m having an odd problem. The feedburner feed looks fantastic – everything is kosher. But Google Reader does not appear to be getting the correct feed for some reason. I’ve tried subscribing via my site instead of directly from Google Reader, but no joy. It’s very frustrating. The only thing I can think of is that my partner sometimes backdates new posts – but that shouldn’t be an issue if Reader is using the forwarded Feedburner feed, right? My site is http://www.redbatphotography.com. Thanks for any help you can provide!
-Patrick
Have you made a new post since you turned on the plugin? I’m thinking it might be a caching issue…
Yes, I’ve made several posts since the plugin was turned on…
I even had Feedburner re-burn the feed…
Your partner is changing the publication date after the blog posts have been published. This changes the order of the posts on your blog but not in Reader. Reader always displays posts in the order it received them (i.e. when they were *really* published).
Because hundreds of people may subscribe to your blog, Reader fetches your feed once and then shows that copy to everyone who subscribes to it. That’s infinitely more efficient than fetching a fresh copy for each individual Reader subscriber. So Reader builds its own internal cached representation of your feed based on the time it saw new items on your feed (the Received date). Even if you later change the publication date, Reader will still show the posts in the order it has already received them.
I’ll gladly make a donation if you can help me. I’m not sure if it’s a chicken-and-egg thing, but I can’t get Feedburner to give me a feed URL. I get this error message from Feedburner: Error on line 2: The processing instruction target matching “[xX][mM][lL]” is not allowed. I have no idea where to find the ‘line 2′ referenced here.
When I click on the RSS Subscribe link from my blog site, I get this error message: Invalid xml declaration. Line: 2 Character: 3
I’m using WordPress 2.6.3, I subscribed to WordPress originally from my Yahoo!Small Business Merchant Starter, I’ve upgraded my theme to the latest version, and I’ve spent many hours trying to figure this out. The feed IS working however on the NING sites that I have a profile on.
I’d like to use your plugin but due to the above, have no idea what to type into the plugin configuration page.
I tried opening your feed and get the error. The problem is an issue with your Wordpress install. Your RSS feed has an extra line at the top which invalidates the entire feed. The extra line is coming from one of the .php files in your Wordpress install… Take a look at the very beginning or end of any .php files you may have edited for extra blank lines and remove them. That will solve the problem.
Hi John,
Thanks for the quicky reply. I’ve gone through every PHP file in my theme editor and removed ALL blank lines, double-checking that there are no blank lines at the beginning or end of any file. Still can’t see what to fix. Here’s the code in my Header.php file — do you see what’s amiss?
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” >
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”; charset=” />
» Blog Archive
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=” RSS Feed” href=”" />
<link rel=”pingback” href=”" />
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”" type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
<a href=”/”>
<form method=”get” id=”searchform” action=”/”>
<li ><a href=”/”>Home
<a href=”" id=”feed” align=”left”>Subscribe RSS
The blank line might not be in your theme. It could be in *any* file in the wordpress install. Maybe in wp-config.php. It’s in there somewhere.
An alternate theory is that one of your plugins might be programmatically injecting a blank line for some reason (I can’t imagine why). You might try disabling plugins one by one and reloading your feed to see if that fixed it.
Another catch vis reloading your feed. It’ll be cached. So after each change you’ll have to append an additional ampersand to the end of the feed URL each time you load it to get a fresh, uncached copy or clear your browser cache and restart your browser each time you make a change.
And please be extremely careful editing files in your blog. You can seriously screw things up if you make a mistake.
Good luck.
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thanks for the great plugin
Hi John,
Thank you for this plugin and making it so simple to redirect to feedburner. The latest version (1.4) was just what I was looking for, the option to use feedburner for my main feed and not to redirect category or tag feeds.
Cheers
Jim
Hi There,
Is the plugin WordPress 2.7 compatible?
Dindt saw it on:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.7
Thank You
It should be. That is, I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be… but I don’t intend to officially test it until 2.7 is imminent or actually released.
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John:
I burned my main comments feed and added the FeedBurner address for the comments feed to the plugin’s admin section.
But the plugin then sent ALL my comments feeds to that address, including the main comments feed AND the individual posts comments feeds!
I removed the comments feed address from the plugin’s admin section.
I’m wondering, what’s the point of redirecting your comments feed if the plugin grabs every comments feed from your site?
Thanks.
It’s impractical to redirect each individual comment feed to Feedburner. You’d need to burn a new feed for every single post to track them all. So the comments feed option is useful if: a) you want to track how many people subscribe to your comments and b) you only want to provide a single comments feed for your entire site. For most people, both of those aren’t important so they leave it off.
Hi John,
Thanks for your guidance a couple weeks ago. I finally got the feed to work after going through every single PHP file. Even after finding a file with a blank line at the top, nothing was working still. Thankfully I found specific instructions on validator.w3.org/feed — it said to remove any and all blank lines between bracketed sections in 4 files: wp-rss2.php, wp-atom.php, wp-config.php, functions.php. Just thought I’d close the loop on this in case there are other folks with the same challenge.
Regards,
Lynn
Great news, Lynn, and thanks for sharing your tip! I know problems like that can be tricky to resolve.
Hi John,
I just installed your plugin because I had problems with another that didn’t show my thumbnails in the posts. You plugin does, but it also shows the whole article instead of just the excerpt!? How can I change this? I just want my viewers to see a glimpse of my post. In WP admin my feed settings are set as “Summary”.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Presetsheaven is my feed.
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