Comments on: Running WordPress Feeds Through FeedBurner

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:25:37 +0000

Adam, I suspect he’s using WP 2.0 which does indeed work fine that way - it does quite a bit without .htacess now.

By: adam

adam — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:37:00 +0000

Not sure what to tell you Aseev — don’t think this method will work if you’re not using standard WordPress .htaccess rewriting.

By: Aseev Sergey

Aseev Sergey — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:39:01 +0000

Yes, it is work. Even blanc .htacess is work. If make blank file, and reactivate permalink structure, in result i have .htacess as above

By: adam

adam — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:24:55 +0000

Aseev - That worked for your permalink structure? Usually WP rules are much more explicit than those.

By: Aseev Sergey

Aseev Sergey — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 08:36:28 +0000

Adam: my old .htaccess very simple - it is exist after install and activating permalink structure. Is work for http://www.getnew.biz/feed/

My old .htaccess file:
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# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php

# END WordPress
=================

By: adam

adam — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 23:14:10 +0000

Yaron - good question - I should have addressed that better in my post. Bloglines, My Yahoo!, NewsGator Online, etc, include subscriber counts in the user agent when they download your feed. FeedBurner is smart enough to parse this and include it in my statistics, while normal web stats apps aren’t smart enough to do this. I could have gotten the stats I wanted from my own web stats, but that would require more digging than I wanted to do. For me, FeedBurner makes my stats much more accessible that through normal web stats apps.

Adam

By: adam

adam — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 23:12:01 +0000

Assev - Did you save a copy of your old .htaccess file? The link to http://www.getnew.biz/feed/ should be redirected to the index.php?feed=feed URL instead of to FeedBurner because your first rule takes precedence over your third rule which overlap. I know why its not going to FB, but not sure why you are getting a 404… because it should still go to index.php locally. Did you old .htaccess work?

Adam

By: Aseev Sergey

Aseev Sergey — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:51:07 +0000

Rewrite feed to new address as source for FeddBurner is work! But my http://www.getnew.biz/feed/ and redirect don’t work. Help please…

My full .htaccess file:
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# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteRule ^(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?&feed=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/newbusiness [R,L]
RewriteRule ^feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/newbusiness [R,L]
# END WordPress
==========================

By: Yaron

Yaron — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:44:51 +0000

Using FeedBurner to manipulate the feed, by entering additional content, ads, or doing some fine-tuning, I can understand. Those are big advantage of the service, which certainly may offset the potential problems with having your feeds routed through a third party.
But the opening phrase of the post make it sound like you mainly do it for the stats. Which makes me wonder, what stats can FeedBurner provide you, which you don’t have otherwise?

Even assuming you don’t host WP on your own machine, most hosts I know give you access to your server logs, so you can get from that what is being used to poll your feed URI… Is there any statistic FeedBurner provides which cannot be taken from these, through any statistics package you may use to monitor them, just like for other links on the site?

By: Michael B

Michael B — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:18:55 +0000

Great tutorial. Thanks.