If you have a Wordpress blog (or blog on some other platform) you probably already know about Feedburner RSS service, now owned by Google. It imports your default RSS feed, gives you new RSS feed URL you shall promote and you have big variety of features for your feed (statistics, e-mail subscriptions form and stats, chicklets, APIs, feed to HTML feature, …). In order to have all your subscribers in Feedburner stats you have to replace default RSS link with new Feedburner link. But what with RSS feed link integrated in your WP theme? There is small icon linked to your old default WP RSS feed placed in browser’s URL bar.
Here is a little tutorial about replacing that with your new Feedburner link.
First, in your WP theme files find header.php file. Open it with Notepad, or better with Notepad++ if you have that installed.
Find this line:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
This part:
title=" RSS Feed"
can be different in vorious themes but rest shall be the same.
Now, go to your Feedburner link like this one:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAleksandar
and click on “View Feed XML”.
Copy new url from URL bar (in my case that is http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAleksandar?format=xml )
and paste it in WP theme in mentioned line insted of
<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>
So, now, new line shall look like:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAleksandar?format=xml" />
You’re done. After that, you will still have RSS feed icon and link in URL bar but now it will lead to your new Feedburner feed. And you will see subscribers you got from that link, in your Feedburner stats, too.