While I was looking around at my RSS subscription, trying to optimize for MyYahoo and MyMSN subscribers, I ran across my header.php in my WordPress theme and found something new.
I thought I had changed my RSS feeds to all go through to FeedBurner, but found my auto-discovery RSS feeds were wrong. Here’s what they used to be:
<link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml” title=“RSS 2.0″ href=“<?php bloginfo(’rss2_url’); ?>” />
</link><link rel=“alternate” type=“text/xml” title=“RSS .92″ href=“<?php bloginfo(’rss_url’); ?>” />
</link><link rel=“alternate” type=“application/atom+xml” title=“Atom 0.3″ href=“<?php bloginfo(’atom_url’); ?>” />
</link>
</link><link rel=“alternate” type=“text/xml” title=“RSS .92″ href=“<?php bloginfo(’rss_url’); ?>” />
</link><link rel=“alternate” type=“application/atom+xml” title=“Atom 0.3″ href=“<?php bloginfo(’atom_url’); ?>” />
</link>
Here’s what they are now:
<link rel=“alternate” type=“application/rss+xml” title=“RSS 2.0″ href=“http://feeds.feedburner.com/nateritter” />
<link rel=“alternate” type=“text/xml” title=“RSS .92″ href=“http://feeds.feedburner.com/nateritter” />
<link rel=“alternate” type=“application/atom+xml” title=“Atom 0.3″ href=“http://feeds.feedburner.com/nateritter” />
<link rel=“alternate” type=“text/xml” title=“RSS .92″ href=“http://feeds.feedburner.com/nateritter” />
<link rel=“alternate” type=“application/atom+xml” title=“Atom 0.3″ href=“http://feeds.feedburner.com/nateritter” />
Notice the difference is I put my FeedBurner feed as the href instead of the typical code for all of WordPress’s feeds.
Note: I know, now, that most of you probably didn’t understand anything I just wrote. I apologize. This was for the techie in the crowd.
nate
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Posted by steve on Mar 03, 2006 at 10:45am
Dude, you are seriously a nerd. Completely and totally.
Posted by nate on Mar 03, 2006 at 10:49am
Yea, I know.. But not a geeky nerd… just a nerd in totality.
Posted by maurizio on Sep 18, 2007 at 02:37am
You are right! That’s the most important tip I heard in weeks. You should spam it to everyone :-)
I have a big issue with my site because I’m trying to read other people’s RSS but I noticed that 99% of the people have that link wrong so it’s a real nightmare to find out the right Feedburner link. Actually I’m stranded right now.
Posted by kpli on Dec 30, 2007 at 10:31pm
Thanks for the lovely post, i’ve read it with interest and had bookmarked this blog for future reference..keep em coming bro, and i wish you A Happy New Year !!