Burn Your WordPress RSS Feed At FeedBurner

Posted by Jeff

on December 17, 2009

The instructions on the FeedBurner site show all of the steps involved in downloading and setting up the FeedBurner FeedSmith WordPress plugin. There is one other step involved that isn’t mentioned that you may want to add to your WordPress blog. This WordPress guide will cover that other step.

First off if I installed your blog you should have the plugin installed and activated already. If I asked for your FeedBurner account then all of this is likely done for you as well. If not you will still need to sign up at FeedBurner.com and ‘Burn’ your feed. For that I have instructions with video on my other blog here: Setup FeedBurner On Your WordPress Blog .

After adding your new FeedBurner feed URL to the proper areas of your WordPress blog the other place to add it is in an RSS sidebar widget. Click Appearance, Widgets and drag the RSS widget, from the left available area into the sidebar on the right. Click the little arrow box on the top right of the widget to open it, place your FeedBurner URL in, and configure how and what you want displayed. Click Save and close the widget.

FeedBurner should redirect your feed automatically, but if you have a feed URL embedded into your particular theme you may want to edit the theme with the FeedBurner feed URL.

Don’t be afraid to check out all the different feed options over at FeedBurner, especially the email subscriptions. For that click the Publicize tab and look on the left side for them. Make sure to activate it after you grab the code!

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Comments

Comment by Steven Richardson on December 17, 2009 @ 3:53 pm

Using Feedburner was possibly the smartest thing I’ve done with my blogs.

My only gripe with them is that the feed count does not seem to be very accurate. Monday I’ll have 70 readers, Tuesday it drops to about 25 and then Wednesday it goes back up to 70+.

Comment by batteries on December 18, 2009 @ 8:47 pm

I have used Feedburner for a while, but I didn’t find large changes.

Comment by Javon on December 21, 2009 @ 9:37 am

I have used Feedburner for a while, but I didn’t find large changes.

Comment by Military Shadow Boxes on December 22, 2009 @ 12:26 pm

Still trying to understand all this RSS feed stuff. Just when you get your head around being able to build a WordPress page RSS programs blow up and now I will be chasing that technology…LOL! Thanks for the dummy downed version of installing feed burner. Going to give it a go.

Comment by life coach NYC on December 22, 2009 @ 2:00 pm

Feedburner without charges is burning news for us.

Comment by Josiah on December 22, 2009 @ 7:11 pm

I love using Feedburner, all my blog subscription data is in one place. I’m wondering if Google Analytics can pull data from Feedburner so that i can view all my feedburner stats on Analytics. That would be nice.

Comment by graphic tablet on December 23, 2009 @ 6:24 am

FeedBurner seem to be pretty interesting tool to make things go better. I haven’t use it yet but I might consider join the family…

Comment by Tungsten Rings on December 23, 2009 @ 1:52 pm

Feedburner is a very useful tool, I was searching for a plugin for feedburner for my wordpress blog, then I came across your post and came to know about the Feedsmith plugin, will use it now Thanks

Comment by psychic readings online on December 24, 2009 @ 1:29 am

While working on a review of StandardStats from FeedBurner, the only real negative thing I could come up with was the fact that the install wasn’t simple

Comment by deutsche girokonto on December 25, 2009 @ 1:55 pm

Feedburner is pretty useful, I have hesitated to install it, before I stumbled upon (not literally) this blog and gave it a try with your excellent tutorial. I can only recommend it to everyone.

Comment by Blog Ideas on December 31, 2009 @ 6:16 pm

I’m so greatful for feedburner, yet another amazing company owned by google that has benefited my blogging a ton.

Comment by Winning numbers on January 5, 2010 @ 1:54 am

I haven’t used rss feeds yet, but I really should start because I think they are helpful, and feedburner is the largest I’m pretty sure. I’m glad this is available with WordPress.

Comment by Jenny Johnson on January 5, 2010 @ 5:12 pm

Feedburner is owned by industrial giant Google, therefor you can easily publish your rss feed.

Comment by Nick D on January 6, 2010 @ 11:58 am

Wow that article was helpful! I have been confused for some time about rss feeds, and the article totally helped! Installation was so easy! Thanks alot!

Comment by gochi on January 7, 2010 @ 12:40 pm

The blog that I write for has this installed, but I don’t really see any great changes to it. I personally don’t use feedburner or subscribe to any RSS feeds… I rather like going to the websites themselves and browsing around rather than getting all the latest updates in an email friendly format.

Comment by Kayla Fay @ Middle School Science Projects on January 7, 2010 @ 11:55 pm

What are the supposed advantages of using Feedburner? I had a feed ‘break’ when Google took over, and had a hard time getting it back. I wondered – and still do – if it were worth the time. Any ideas on that?

Comment by day spa health on January 11, 2010 @ 6:00 am

When first setting up a word press blog, tinkering with the RSS feed and setting up a widget can be tricky…very helpful article thanks..

Comment by Masters Golf Tickets on January 11, 2010 @ 10:10 am

Well, I have been using Feed Burner for quite some time now and would like anyone going for that to follow up with this post. The article is really helpful, Thanks a ton!

Comment by Bodybuilding Advice on January 12, 2010 @ 5:33 am

Thanks for this, I wondered how everyone got Feedburner setup. I’m going to bookmark this so I can come back to it again.

Comment by bouncers on January 13, 2010 @ 7:37 pm

Feedburner has been really great for us. We use it to run an rss feed for our party blog. We provide a link to it on our website so that people can subscribe to our rss feeds. Much easier than manually coding rss.

Comment by webmaster on January 20, 2010 @ 2:55 am

I have heard about feedburner but never used before. Thanks to you i’ll start using it.

Comment by Equipment Leasing on January 24, 2010 @ 12:36 am

Yep, I’ve been using feedburner for awhile now and love it. Another cool program is icerocket for creating rss feeds.

Comment by Jom Adastico on January 27, 2010 @ 7:24 am

Yes, this works really well. I have been using feedburner for a while now, and I Simply recommend it widely.

Comment by Mains on January 27, 2010 @ 8:21 am

Thanks for pointing out feed burner to me, never used it before but now im burning!!

Comment by Ca Homes on January 27, 2010 @ 5:55 pm

It seems feed burner is much more okay that rss feed.I will try to download it and installed to my wordpress.

Comment by Turning Winds on January 31, 2010 @ 8:25 pm

I haven’t tried it but would love to try adding it on my WordPress.

Thanks for sharing and very interesting one.

Comment by Nathan Rodriguez on January 31, 2010 @ 8:59 pm

I still haven´t found a good reason for using Feedburner, there must be something that im missing, because it´s use it´s very well spread these days.

Comment by door handles on February 1, 2010 @ 1:34 pm

We hope to take advantage of the feedburner information here and on the web. So as they say watch this space and i will keep our fingers crossed for ourselves.

Comment by kate on February 5, 2010 @ 12:21 pm

i used to use feedburner…but i left it.. standard rss is enough

Comment by Manual Juicer on February 5, 2010 @ 4:27 pm

Thanks Jeff.

I do use the Feedburner / Feedsmith plugin. I’ve found ti rather straightforward to use. I have not used the widget feature yet and will do so.

I also use Feedburner to burn my custom feeds. This has the effect of getting crawled by Google much more quickly for a list of URLs.

Comment by brandon on February 8, 2010 @ 11:53 am

Feedburner very useful and + feedsmith plugin
really user friendly

Comment by Web Hosting Unlimited on February 11, 2010 @ 11:31 pm

Nice and encouraging post there, Jeff. Feedburner is certainly one of the most integral aspect of successful blogging these days. And it is so easy to burn your feed with feedburner.

Comment by deck tile on February 15, 2010 @ 9:54 am

It seems feed burner is much more okay that rss feed.I will try to download it and installed to my wordpress.I have hesitated to install it, before I stumbled upon (not literally) this blog and gave it a try with your excellent tutorial.

Comment by Web Design Chester on February 18, 2010 @ 9:30 am

Hi, first of all it’s quite refreshing to see a blog that is worded in a simple manner!

I have been putting off using rss feeds for some of my sites as although wordpress seems to make it easier…I just seem to have had the simplest stumbling block of understanding the process.

I’m just off to read the ‘Setup FeedBurner On Your WordPress Blog’ post now and try and take my head out of the sand and try it out!

Cheers,
John

Comment by Richard on February 24, 2010 @ 9:41 am

Thanks for this comment. I don’t use WordPress (I wrote my own blogging software) but was looking into whether or not is worth moving to wordpress in terms of whether it added mailing list capabilities. Having read this, I’ve now updated my blog to use feedburner directly and included the mailing list features from there. Much easier than programming it up myself so thanks, by pointing out the mailing list capabilities of feedburner you’ve saved me a lot of time.

Comment by Ryand on March 6, 2010 @ 3:21 pm

Nice info. I used Feedburner but I didn’t know the real function.
Now I try to focus study it from you. Thank you

Comment by beni on April 13, 2010 @ 11:07 pm

Feedburner is pretty useful, I have hesitated to install it, before I stumbled upon (not literally) this blog and gave it a try with your excellent tutorial. I can only recommend it to everyone.

Comment by Masquerade Masks on April 15, 2010 @ 1:01 pm

Thanks for the link to the video post on your other blog, it was very helpful for me to see some video of integrating the Feedburner feeds, I always absorb info better that way I really enjoyed ‘how to screw up your WP blog” too, funny with a lot of important tips that most people don’t consider when setting up their backend. Thanks!

Best,

Conrad

The Masquerade Mask Man

Comment by epagini on April 16, 2010 @ 10:53 am

Feedburner is a great tool to use, I recommend it to everyone!

Warm wishes,
Epagini

Comment by Syahal on April 29, 2010 @ 5:51 am

Feedburner is a one RSS that I like, all this time I use Feedburner to Blogspot. After read your post I interest to use my website wordpress basic.

Comment by canadianbank5 on May 5, 2010 @ 7:24 am

also use Feedburner to burn my custom feeds. This has the effect of getting crawled by Google much more quickly for a list of URLs.

Comment by Lovesdestiny on May 21, 2010 @ 10:07 am

I am about 1 week away from converting one of my sites to WordPress and I am considering adding the Feedburner plugin. RSS can be a little intimidating, but if you follow the instructions, it is a piece of cake. I have Feedburner on 3 other WordPress blogs and I love it.

Jamie

Comment by بو احمد on May 22, 2010 @ 8:20 pm

also use Feedburner to burn my custom feeds. This has the effect of getting crawled by Google much more quickly for a list of URLs.

Comment by Strom on June 20, 2010 @ 6:05 am

Feedburner brought al lot of Energy into my blogs, and its a great feature. But like Steven its the same with my Blog, one day i have about 70 readers, then 30, strange.. Is there any better reporting tool or plugin?

Comment by Kathy on June 23, 2010 @ 9:08 am

Thanks for referencing the guide. I had a hard time getting feedburner to work the first time. Now it works fine.

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