FeedBurner RSS Redirect WordPress Plugin
Redirect those RSS Feeds to Feedburner!
After releasing the very long tutorial and walk through on optimizing your FeedBurner Settings I wanted to follow-up with a WordPress Plugin that’ll help you easily redirect your WordPress’ native RSS Feed to FeedBurner automatically!
It’s a very simple concept and setting it up takes only a few seconds!
- Lets you input the feed URL.
- Lets you input the comment feed URL as well.
Sweet, right? Here are some other things that are built-in:
- Plugin handles malformed URL’s. For example, it will prepend “http://” when necessary.
- It’s localized so it’s translation ready!
Finally, you may have to do a hard-refresh on your feeds once its installed – it’s a server issue and not a plugin issue!
Ready to get it? Download it directly here!
FeedBurner, as I’ve shared before, is a great way to track, analyze, and monetize your RSS Feed.
Don’t forget to check out my other WordPress Plugins right here!
Sweet! Those of us on Standard Theme don’t need this right? Because you made it simple in the standard theme backend. Just checking.
no, you’ll want this as well as people can still get to your original feed from links not directly on your blog. for example, on the header here:
http://cl.ly/2H1v2L0e2b0D1n1p1F09
In the move from Blogger to WP, is there a way to move your feed without losing your subscribers? I’m getting ready to make the move next month.
yes, definitely. if you’re already using feedburner you just change the source feed.
When I switch from Typepad to WP Standard Theme, does this source-feed switch also work?
When Michael Hyatt shifted from Typepad to WP, he wrote (at the time) that Typepad’s feed structure didn’t allow for this. He had to ask everyone to re-subscribe to his new feed.
Thank you for any clarification!
yes. he asked just in case but he also swapped feedburner names by accident if I remember correctly. he has since recovered (and then some).
How do I change that source feed? With the wordpress plug-in alone? Do I have to do anything on my feedburner page?
you can change the source feed in feedburner.
Hey John….how do I perform this hard-refresh on my feeds? After installing this plugin my blog links take me to http://feeds.feedburner.com/AndyAllenMusic rather than the link I’m clicking.
Thanks -
Andy
I’ve disabled the plugin until I can figure out how to do the hard-refresh. Looking forward to learning how to do that.
I believe it’s within feedburner “troubleshootize” settings, hit “resync now.”
I think. Can anybody else verify this?
fixed.
Just activated the plugin-update and it’s back to working normal.
Thanks!!!
Hey Andy,
There’s nothing you have to do in FeedBurner to handle this. A hard refresh is just a way of refreshing your browser so that it bypasses the cache
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If the link is redirecting to your feed address, you’re money.
Awesome dude. I have a question though! Does WordPress’ built in Comment Feed really add any value? Do people even subscribe to those? Something about it feels…old.
eh. questionable.
Does it work with WordPress 3.1? I’m using “FD Feedburner Plugin” right now, but yesterday when I upgrade my blog to WP 3.1, all the posts from that moment didn’t arrive to FeedBurner, and I guess it’s a problem of “FD Feedburner Plugin”.
Your plugin works fine with WordPress 3.1?
P.S. Sorry for my bad english.
yup. fine with 3.1.
Hi John,
Well, I figured out how to get the FeedCounter on my site, but don’e seem to be able to have a “Subscribe” area even after doing the redirect that you just outlined. Can you look at http://www.speakingoflove.net to see if it is working right? If you can and want to, could you also look at the google analytics for my site? I think it is set up right, but not sure. Let me know if you need me to do anything. Thanks. You can email me at slbphoenix@hotmail.com
i don’t see google analytics installed.
Okay! I’ll try again! Thanks for checking.
I’m using the FeedBurner RSS Redirect Plugin’ on Pagelines WordPress theme but its not working. I’m on WordPress 3.1.
we’ve made a slight update. try again? what’s not working?
Hi, thank you for your plugin, I’m using it with a blog with more than 2000 subscribers and it worked fine since the last update (1.2).
When updating to 1.2 I get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PRIVATE in /blog/wp-content/plugins/tentbloggers-feedburner-rss-redirect-plugin/tentblogger-feedburner-redirect.php on line 185
I’m using WP3.0.5.
thank you in advance for any hint on how to solve this bug
Solved. adding a missing curly bracket at line 174 did the trick.
Just a heads up that this has been patched in the WordPress repository, too.
Updated the feedburner RSS redirect plugin automatically this morning and now my blog isn’t working. Any suggestions? I can’t even get into the admin screen to disable the plugin.
So I just deleted the whole file from my host and then installed the new version. Not totally sure what went wrong, but I seem to have been able to fix it. It was saying “parse error.”
We rolled an update this morning. Sorry about that – all should be good now!
I have installed your plug in for Feedburner, but how do I get it to show up on my blog. I am new at this, but you seem to have the best info on this subject. I appreciate your assistance.
My blog is at http://www.emeraldcoastinv.com/blog and I have set up the feeds with feedburner and resynched them as well.
On my WP 3.1 dashboard, I can’t find where to set up the screen where people can subscribe to updates on my blog?
I went to feedburner and it does see the feeds from my blog, so that part seems to be working. I just have no way that I can figure out how to get the sign up screen set up on WP for it to be on my blog.
Did my question above stump everyone?
you have to copy and paste the feedburner widget that they provide you.
try this?
http://tentblogger.com/create-subscribe-page/
So how does this compare to the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin (http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=78483) that I’ve been using for years? …Besides the fact the FeedSmith appears to not be in the WP Plugin Directory…
very similar, but from what I know it hasn’t been updated recently and you almost always want a plugin that sits in the WordPress repository because they care about the quality as well as safety of the plugins that get accepted.
some good gateway controls, if you ask me.
i’m not dogmatic on the ones that I create but I use them for myself and they have helped me be successful at blogging..
like levar burton and Reading Rainbow………… don’t take my word for it!
i think……
Ya, that was my feeling. I’ll give yours a try. Thanks.
Hrrmm, appears (all?) the TentBlogger WP plugins install themselves as their own sidebar button? Tested this with this plugin and optimize. Thought about the standard of putting them inside Tools and Settings?
yes. we have definitely thought about consolidating them into one interface… stay tuned.
you are so smart!
Great! I run the sidebar minimized so a bunch of little gear buttons makes it tough to figure out whats what. Thanks! I’ve been really enjoying TentBlogger!
sure thing peter!
Awesome Blog John!
I am a feedburner newbie who is getting my family blog off the ground with standard theme and loving it. My question for you is what do I enter in the standard theme rss and anlaytics feedburner email section? Also I installed your plugin even though I have standard theme but it seemed to zero out my twitter follower count – did I do anything wrong?
Thanks for all you do – you really inspire us amateurs!
can you send me screenshots?
I need to do this. what happens to people who are currently subscribed using the old /feed url?
that depends on where they are getting it from or through.
I’m using the Magazine Basic theme on WP 3.1.2. The plugin installed correctly, it accurately updated my Feedburner URL but the redirect doesn’t work.
Nevermind that last post, I’m an idiot — I didn’t realize that it didn’t take effect until you published another post. Nicely done. Thanks.
all good!
I just realized that the Feedburner plugin I was using had broken my feed. I found yours in the plugin directory and tried it out instead. Simple implementation and now it works. Thanks!
awesome! glad it worked!
Question for ya: I installed the plugin a while back. Everything seems to work fine…except I am trying to use a couple of different applications to access my blog for editing/posting. The two apps are the iPad app for WordPress and LiveWriter. After installing the plugin, these two apps error out when trying to access the lists of posts and pages.
I am thinking that this is all related to the feed; but, I don’t have much to base that on and I don’t know what to look at for solving the problem.
Any thoughts?
Thanks!!
try uninstalling it and test!
Thanks John. Well, it’s not a problem with a Tentblogger plugin – that’s great news
But, it’s really strange. Apparently there are two different issues.
The iPad app seems to have a problem with the JetPack plugin…or at least part of it. I deactivated various components of the plugin and finally got the app to work. Interesting though, I have a dev site with JetPack installed, and the app doesn’t have a problem with that site.
As for LiveWriter, there seems to be some sort of conflict with WP Super Cache that results in the 500 Internal Server Error and points to the xmlrpc.php file. But, again, there is not a problem with my dev site running the same plugin.
I am a bit baffled. The appearance of the issues must have just been a coincedence with the installation of the Feedburner plugin. So, at least there is no issue there. I am guessing that something internal somewhere has just gotten a bit out of whack.
I FIGURED IT OUT!!
The issue was actually a memory limit issue – for both apps and errors. To solve the problem, I increased the memory allocated for PHP/WP. I did this in a couple of different ways (through the WP-Config file and through the htaccess file) and both worked.
I think the thing that tied all of this together was hitting a point where the combination of plugins and the amount of content in the site caused the amount of data requested by the apps to surpass the memory limit.
Just thought you might want to know … and in case anyone else runs into this sort of issue.
wow! thanks for updating me on this! will note that next time!
OK, WP noob warning, but has anyone else reported issues with getting this to work for 3.2.1, or am I just doing something wrong. Nothing seems to have redirected.
not having any issues… what are you seeing?
hello, i’m a complete wordpress blog newbie. im trying to get my travel blog to work but everytime i use a link even after install the plugin it takes me here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/bigbackpacker . anyway to fix this that you know of? Thanks a lot.
nm for some reason that worked. before it was bringing a dropdown menu… i didn’t understand it. still when i go to . http://www.bigbackpacker.com/feed/ it takes me to that. sorry to ask two questions and thanks for any help that you can give me.
cool. that’s what it’s supposed to do. redirect to feedburner.
Great Plugin. Thanks!!!
Is there any way to have the link back to the original post use the Post’s full permalink URL instead of the short link?
you could definitely edit this if you’d like!
Ok so for some reason today RSS is completely whack for my site. It just quite updating. So I had to mess around with things (was getting that “too big 512k” warning- whatever- so I changed to summary) Now I am not getting any pictures included in my feed. I tried a plugin (WP RSS Images) to try and get the images/pictures back- nope. One of the main reasons I want the pictures back is that I use RSS Graffiti to post my feed to FB and I want/need the pics to show too.
I know this seems a bit off topic, but I installed my plugin too. I see how responsive you are and was hoping you could help. Thanks!
(also, since I have set my feed to just be “summary” excerpts, will my e-newsletter from feedburner be full post or summary too? Can you tell I am a newbie!)
sorry meant to add these:
http://4our2cents.com/feed/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/4our2cents
i see the feed pulling right. what’s not working?
well it is pulling now. but I had to set the posts down to 10 on my settings, which I really would rather have at 15-20. I still don’t understand that error message, I checked the size ( with feed sniffer or something like that) and I was only at 40! And it’s like this just happened out of no where, I have been publishing fine till now and I know lots of other blogs that def have more than 10 posts in their feed with out the size warning.
Also, I have no idea why it is not pulling the pictures from my blog posts into the feed anymore. Also I am wondering, since I had to change the settings to only 10 posts and the “summary”, will that be all that my e-newletter readers see? I would rather they be able to see the full post.
Thanks so much! I have posted everywhere and you are the only one to respond!
perhaps you have to reset it. check out hte “nuke” option at the end.
i have done the “resync” but not sure anbout “nuke”. Where do I find that?
that’s it.
oh, well than that didn’t bring back the pics either. ;(
do you know about some of the rss image plug ins for WP (or maybe you have one of your own!?) Would one of those bring them back?
BTW- thanks so much for the help!
hmm. i’ll have to take a look. the images aren’t coming through?
I think i found a fix. Someone told me to add ?max-results=3 at the end of my feed address. that has fixed it. but the same person told me that is a temp fix. fingers crossed for now. thanks for all the help
awesome, glad to hear it!
Ugh! All messed up again! (?max-results=3 seems to not be fixing it anymore) Once again the feed quit updating and it told me it was because it was over the 512 K limit (it is not!). So I had to set feed to summary option (which my readers dislike) in order for the feed to start publishing again. Yeah and those images are gone again too.
You were so responsive last time, I am wondering if you can help me find a permanent solution! Thanks!
http://www.feeds.feedburner.com/4our2cents
what plugins are you using?
I actually turned them all off the first time around- including yours. Because I thought that might have been part of the prob. Once the “result=3″ seemed to fix it, I didn’t want to turn them back on for fear of messing it up again.
ah. i see. hmm. is it working or still broken?
it is working now, only because I have the reading setting set to only show 6 posts in the feed. This is not optimal for me at all. I usually post at least 10 articles a day, which are usually time sensitive, so I need to be able to have all the new posts show in my feed and enewsletter. Up til a few weeks ago it was no problem to have 12+ posts show in the feed/newsletter.
I just don’t get it. I use web sniffer and never find that I am anywhere near the 512 K limit. I also know lots of my fellow deals bloggers that post even more than I and don’t seem to be having the limit issue. I have posted on WP and Feedburner forums- no help. Like I said before, I am a newbie and have no budget for tech support. So any advise you can think of would be more than helpful Thanks!
what happens if you change it back to 10? does it break?
it is just sooo random. Sometimes I would try that, set it to 6, resync then set it back to 10 and ping. But it would tell me too big again. But then yesterday I did it, slowly making the post reading more and then pinging and it let me get up to 15 without the limit warning. right now I am at 15 posts with full text (and pics) and the feed is running fine. There just doesn’t seem to be a rhyme or reason to it, so I assume it will happen again.
they’ve had problems in the past, but they’ve been fixed… and i haven’t been having any. don’t worry too much about it… but keep an eye on it!
thanks for all the feedback. i def an going to keep an eye on it. if you ever see anything about it let me know. Thanks again!!!!
sure thing mary!
BTW- doing it again today. Ugh!
where are you hosting?
godaddy. that is actually my next step- to call and see if something on their end might be blocking the feed. IDK!?
hmmmm. ask them.
Great plugin, thanks! Works perfect – but it works for the main feed only, and as I have multiple languages on the blog, I am looking for a way to redirect additional feeds..
Do you think it is possible to implement with your plugin?
it’s possible. you’d have to customize it though.
I’d be glad to.. Can you provide directions on how to do it?
(I am not a developer though, but I might modify some code based on your instructions)
Appreciate it!!
Hi John ,
I am using this plugin but my blog feed
http://makemoneyonlinefastplans.com/feed/
is not redirecting to http://feeds.feedburner.com/makemoneyonlinefast1..
Please help me out..
is it working now?
Hi John!
I am admittedly new to the blogging world, so bear with me.
I installed your Plugin to redirect my rss feed. How do I get something to show up on my blog that allows people to sign up, in order to be redirected? (Does that make sense)
Do I need a 2nd plugin to “Subscribe to My Feed”, so something shows up on my sidebar? Please walk me through it.
Thank you!
no apologies! welcome to the wide world of bloggin!
try this: http://tentblogger.com/mailchimp/
it’s a newsletter email system that allows that type of “function” i believe you wnat.
Hi,
hoping you can help. I have a comments feed set up on Feedburner – http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForMetrotrendsBlog and put that in the comments field in the plug in.
The blog has (for example) http://blog.metrotrends.org/2012/02/metrotrends-week-review-15/feed as the comments links but the redirect goes to the main feed, not the comments feed. Is this a problem with the Share and follow plug in that generates the follow comments link, or a problem with your plug in?
it was developed for main feed, not for specific post-level feeds.
ok- thanks.
I just installed and activated this on my WP blog but it’s still not directing correctly. I’m using the Share and Follow plugin that puts a icon ppl can click to subscribe to my rrs feed, but when they do that and add to say Google reader the whole post doesn’t show up with images and test posts that I have erased show up. I put my feedburner link in the space provided in the plugin set up to redirect them to the feedburner link once in google reader since if you put that link in directly full posts with images show up and no tests post appear.
Are you supposed to use this plugin with another plugin like share and follow? If not, how would you get a little icon to appear on your blog that ppl could click and thus be directed to your feed?
Thanks for the help- I can’t seem to find an answer anywhere!
can i see a screenshot?
I just installed it and my feed is still not right – any suggestions? It’s taking it somewhere else. Thanks!
what do you mean? screenshot?
Will this redirect feedburner email subscribers to a thank you page on a website?
no. this does not do that.