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almostgotit on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

almostgotit — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:49:19 +0000

I can read fairly well, thank you. It's UNDERSTANDING what I read that is sometimes a problem! ;0)

drmike on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

drmike — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:10:02 +0000

Next step is to get some really good tech writers to translate all of this for us regular humans.

Feel free to step up. :)

None of those features are necessary for blogging. If they are required for you, you are free to grab a copy of the wordpress software from http://wordpress.org and find yourself a host.

You are also free to submit a feedback and suggest them. Staff has said that they keep track of what's being requested.

You may also want to read the thread that you post in as I do believe there are workaround listed up above.

almostgotit on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

almostgotit — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:23:06 +0000

Just when I was *SO* proud of myself for embedding an RSS feed button today (NOT linking! I uploaded/coded it all myself!!)

Yet clearly, I know nussing.

But I want Feedburner now. Generic meta headers. Yeah yeah, those sound great, too. Next step is to get some really good tech writers to translate all of this for us regular humans. (hmm.. last post to this thread was over 2 months ago... tap, tap, Hello-- is this thing on??)

secondchancetolive on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

secondchancetolive — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:40:02 +0000

I really have enjoyed reading these threads and found myself amused. I like raincoaster am confused. After much toil, I got the social buttom and social networking thing to work last night. Thank you for all those who helped me. I have noticed my feed readers have shot up exponentially. I do not know if what is being addressed above would enhance or discourage readers to come to my blog. As I asked in the social bookmarking/networking button thread, can someone distill what is being suggested above...because my head is swimming in sequencing. Thanks for being detailed and specific. Thank you!

brucewagner on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

brucewagner — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:07:54 +0000

Awesome!

Matt, Mark, etc... are you taking note?

; )

raincoaster on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

raincoaster — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:17:12 +0000

I barely understand one word of that, but it sounds cool. I would support that.

engtech on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

engtech — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:51:41 +0000

I was thinking how great it would be to have a generic "meta headers" editor window.

It would have these links as default:

But I could edit/replace them and also fill in other generic meta elements like validation for various web services to prove that you are the webmaster of a site.

Other than stripping javascript/meta redirect, not much work would need to be done.

Potential for abuse would be small, you'd see a couple of guys stuff meta description tags but that doesn't really harm anyone and search engines ignore it.

It would be an advanced editing panel for sure (probably under Extras). People could change their default feed to FeedBurner or whatever, you'd finally be able to access the Google Webmaster console for your blog that tells you about broken links etc. You could put in non-standard meta elements like your GPS position for geoblogging.

This would be very sweet.

sunburntkamel on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

sunburntkamel — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:53:50 +0000

heh, sorry.
just trying to make it something palatable to matt + co, in hopes it might be implemented sooner than later ;)

timethief on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

timethief — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:08:11 +0000

Bruce your idea sounds both workable and desirable. :D
Sun please ... why does every improvement that's suggested come with this "paid upgrade" trailer? Sheesh ... don't you know some of us out here truly are poor [she whined]. :P

sunburntkamel on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

sunburntkamel — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:58:55 +0000

hey man, i wholeheartedly support that idea!
i think engtech would too.

hell, even as a paid upgrade.

brucewagner on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

brucewagner — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:36:27 +0000

Clarification

No, no, no...

Feedburner is NOT an RSS Reader...

Feedburner is simply a TOOL that bloggers can use to "clean up" and "fix up" and "pimp out" their RSS FEED.

It changes NOTHING for the subscriber... in the sense that it does NOT force the subscriber to use ANYTHING...

Here's an Idea!

I have an idea for a solution! This would NOT involve changing any themes... (Heaven Forbid!)

Why not make a change to WordPress's Dashboard System-Wide... Add a new field under OPTIONS.... Called, "RSS Feed". It would default to the normal WordPress RSS feed... BUT... the blogger could change it to whatever they wanted... (i.e. their Feedburner burned feed).

Then, the system would simply USE THIS FEED (the string value stored in that field) wherever the "RSS Feed" is displayed... in ALL of it's themes!

Since we are talking about changing a SYSTEM VARIABLE, I think this should be able to be done system-wide -- without actually changing any of the themes.

drmike on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

drmike — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:18:43 +0000

Sun, it's probably not even true although I think staff may give that as a reason. How long could we only use YouTube around here? :)

timethief on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

timethief — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:12:00 +0000

Well spoken. I concur. As a reader of blogs I will not capitulate and subscribe to any blog where the blogger has deliberately created a "monopoly" for feedburner or any other such enterprize. I want to make my own choices thank you.

sunburntkamel on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

sunburntkamel — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:11:39 +0000

ugh. don't quote that, please. it's probably the worst sentence i've ever written.

raincoaster on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

raincoaster — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:02:12 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. I get it now, and do see the usefulness, but I know that forcing users to a particular thing such as Feedburner will cost you some readership. I wouldn't take the chance, myself. A 30% dropoff is not uncommon when you do something like that, and I just wouldn't do anything to cause readership to go down, even momentarily.

timethief on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

timethief — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:00:06 +0000

*lol* :D

drmike on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

drmike — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:51:15 +0000

we don't want to embed a monopoly to anyone

Hmm, have to remember that the next time someone whines and moans (Not directed at you, Bruce. You were at least polite about it.) about how Feedburner is the second coming and how we all need it and can't live without it.

timethief on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

timethief — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:54:24 +0000

Noted :) however we are on a shared multi-user blogging platform and changing this footer stuff is not available to us because it would change it on every other blog, right? If so then we are blowing hot air that may confuse new bloggers who do not understand the limitation of working on a wp MU blogging platform, right? :)

sunburntkamel on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

sunburntkamel — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:53:00 +0000

we don't want to embed a monopoly to anyone. it's fine that there's a wp.com 'monopoly' on the document head (address bar). but the links in the theme should go to wherever a user wants them to.

and from a usability standpoint your really don't want multiple links called 'RSS' going to different locations.

although i'm with engtech, i'd happily let them have the monopoly ;)

engtech on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

engtech — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:43:06 +0000

I know I do :)

timethief on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

timethief — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:03:36 +0000

Granted that the features are attractive but do we really want to embed a monopoly to Feedburner in our blog templates?

engtech on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

engtech — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:58:46 +0000

@raincoaster

Using Feedburner feeds rather than regular feeds is pretty sweet because you can see really cool subscriber stats, add dynamic links to bottom that show the number of comments/diggs/delicioussaves/etc, track things like how many subscribers clicked on links, etc.

It also provides a nice, unified way of show professional metrics for your blog -- kind of like how you wanted to show off your technorati rank when trying to get professional blogger jobs...

sunburntkamel on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

sunburntkamel — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:24:06 +0000

feedburner isn't an RSS reader.

feedburner formats your RSS feed (so it doesn't look like code if someone clicks on it, and it provides links to subscribe in common rss readers).

they also allow you to mux in your del.icio.us links and flickr photos, as well as providing links at the bottom of your feed to show how many comments an article has, or to add an article to social bookmarking services.

raincoaster on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

raincoaster — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:59:30 +0000

Bruce, work with me: I'm slow. Why do you want to remove the brandless RSS feed to your blog and make it only the Feedburner version? My understanding (limited as it may be) of WordPress is that it allows Feedburner as well as any number of other RSS readers. Are you funnelling your readers to this to ramp your Feedburner hits? I'd think that would be counterproductive, given what I've seen of my own feed reader spreads. I'm intrigued: Why?

sunburntkamel on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

sunburntkamel — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:09:13 +0000

@drmike-
yes, that's what i meant about the wordpress.com feed being being linked in the header.

drmike on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

drmike — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:08:07 +0000

Most themes also put the links in the head portion of any output. I believe that's what the browsers and feed readers pick up on.

engtech on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

engtech — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:08:28 +0000

Yeah, but it's hardcoded into Kubrick.

If you removed the RSS link you'd have users complaining it was gone.

Such is the problem with themes.

sunburntkamel on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

sunburntkamel — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:42:13 +0000

mark said:

The goal is to have Feedburner-only feed links.
That cannot be done.

...in kubrick

you'll always have your wordpress.com feed linked in the header (the link that puts the orange icon in the address bar). but there's no reason that the unformatted feed should be inflicted on users with old browsers. i thought the goal here was to normalize themes? the RSS links shouldn't be in the footer.

brucewagner on "Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?"

brucewagner — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:42:32 +0000

Ok.

That's all I wanted to know.

I will have to settle for posting a Feedburner RSS button at the top and bottom of the sidebar...

By the way, I like the engtech blog. Thanks, time... I subscribed to it myself...

Now, I'm gonna have to find get that MyBlogLog widget he has... That is very cool too!

russell1999 on "Adding feedburner to your blog"

russell1999 — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:48:14 +0000

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