May 03, 2007

Comments

Feedburner.com -

It is great to see you 'adopt' Steve Smith's work and recognize its value rather than just code your own from scratch...

Bravo !

- Erik

It's cool!

Good call: Steve's plugin is a great piece of work.

That said, I'd love to see the ability to support multiple feeds for categories (right now the plugin allows you to redirect the main feed, but not category specific ones).

Many of us will be using John Watson's FeedBurner Plugin.

http://flagrantdisregard.com/feedburner/

Any advantages to moving?

cool stuff. i was wondering why this was not done before. anyway keep it up guys.
i love feedburner.

cheers
www.opensourcedevelopers.net

I prefer to just replace the feed url in my header file.

Good, am already using the plugin, nice to see the bosses at feedburner are looking at innovative stuff in the market !

@opensourcedevelopers: I haven't looked at that plugin, sounds like it's similar in functionality.

@Pallab: That approach makes a lot of sense if you're just starting out, but the advantage of this plugin is that it addresses subscribers who are already subscribed to a non-FeedBurner URL. This way, they get redirected and all of your audience is counted.

would you ever think of implementing automatic feedburner registration for feeds from the plugin?
Also, does it provide redirection for comment feeds ? (i think so)
And what about category/tag feeds?

@Dan: per-category feeds might be an enhancement we'll consider adding. It's a somewhat delicate balance between administrative simplicity and flexible functionality, and for now we're trying to keep plugin setup as straightforward as possible.

@riffraff: Automatic FeedBurner feed creation as an option (using our Feed Management API) is a cool idea. The same concerns about simplicity v. functionality remain for all such enhancements, but this one could be pretty doggone straightforward (for the publisher to use, anyway). Thanks for these suggestions. Also, the plugin does support redirection of the main Commments feed right now.

Tell ya what, this story is great PR. You guys seem like really nice folk.

I wonder if I should make my similar Drupal plugin public :)

The thing that surprises me a bit is why FeedBurner had to buy it? Wasn't the Steve's plugin already open with the right to use it for commercial purposes for everybody?

I have this plugin already installed. Perhaps now it can be bundled with future release versions?

- Martin Reed

@Artem: Regarding a Drupal plugin, feel free to share it. You might also be interested in Dave Reid's module, which is here: http://drupal.org/project/feedburner

As for the FeedSmith plugin, we're simply taking over future development and support. Steve is no longer using WordPress and had expressed an interest in handing the project off.

Will you be putting versioning information in cleartext on the FeedSmith page so that I'll always know what version you have compared to the vesrion I have installed?

I just want to be sure to stay always up-to-date.

Rich.
BlogRodent

@Matt: I like the "adoption" twist and good cause! Just wanted to underline dan's and riffraff's comments. I was using the plug-in, but disabled it when I realized how my category/podcast feeds were messed up. Please give the "auto-creation" feature a positive consideration. In fact, I think the development of a FeedBurner service that manages a host of different feeds from one source (e.g. blog) would a tremendous (and unique?) service. As things are now it is for sure complicated for us who publish more than one feed.

@Richard: Just to clarify, the plugin shouldn't disable or otherwise impact category and comment feeds; it's solely focused on the default 'master' feed generated by WordPress.

@Rich: Great idea; we'll make sure to do that moving forward.

I have to chime in and say that I was in the process of writing a similar plug-in and I'm thrilled that this now exists and is fully supported by the FB team. Awesome!

For anyone that's interested, I've written a guide to setting up Feedburner with a WordPress blog that also includes FeedSmith:

http://haris.tv/2007/05/10/setup-your-wordpress-blog-with-feedburner/

Enjoy!

Haris

Now can your genius programmers come up with a version for ModX CMS?
You'd be heros... once again.

:)

I have installed this plugin yesterday, right after taking a feeburner subscription. And now I've added my own feed a few times to google.com/ig but it is still not counting any subscriptions... that is i'm still at a 0.

Any ideas why this is happening? Are there other ways to test whether the plugin is installed correctly?

@Hajo: the feed stats (like subscribers, item views, click throughs) update nightly. After midnight central time US (GMT -0600), we do that day's updates. Sounds like you might have done this test right after those updates, so give it a look tonight (tomorrow morning your time) and you should see the result of those tests.

I Agree,

I hate watching people reinventing the well each time. Great decision to improve something that already existed !

I think I've found a bug, and I'm not sure where to post it, so I'll just post it here, and hopefully it'll get noticed.

I have the trailing slash off my permalinks, and when I go to /feed (note no trailing slash), the plugin doesn't redirect. However, if I go to /feed/, it's all fine.

Great Plugin!

I'm using the WP Feedburner plug-in and think it's great!

I concur. Hats off to you for recognizing the little folks out here.

Congrats on your big pay day too! Should help you pay for the adoption ;)

Great .. im using ad im happy!

Does this plugin require the latest version? Or does it take a while to activate? I'm using version 2.1 and nothing has happened to my main feed: site.com/feed, but other ones like site.com/rss which I don't use is redirected...

does this support Wordpress MU?

Good.

I've been waiting for a way to manage multiple feeds.

Now I can go with Feedblitz too.

Well done.

Matt

great plugin! i've been using it for the longest time

thanks feedburner & steve

Steve is in action,,, Hurrah..

It's a very good plugin indeed. I use it almost since beginning.

It would be cooler if it come with some Awareness API support to create custom FeedBurner counters.

Nice, can't wait to get my hands on that one.

Hi - just wanted to say that it'd be *awesome* if we could work in a way to allow for additional feeds to also be possible while still using feedsmith. Users often want to subscribe to specific categories, etc, which is impossible with feedsmith.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I second that. I'm glad to see that this valuable plug-in has been adopted and hope that it will continually be maintained. It's the perfect tool for those of using both Wordpress and FeedBurner.

Cheers,
Dan

Thank you so much for this terrific plugin. Like others, I wish it could also redirect category feeds to their Feedburner counterparts. But anyway, this is much appreciated.

Fantastic - had been trying to build my own plugin for this - just for the fun of it. Must be the fact that my HTTP skills are less that prodigous that has led me to use yours instead.

Will this plugin work correctly if I'm using MyBrand feature?

I agree with Erik. Good and friendly work! Very nice to user this plugin. Thank you!

Post a comment

Your comment will be held for approval by FeedBurner.

Name:

Email Address:

URL:
Remember personal info?

Comments: