Using FeedBurner to Manage Your Feed
Follow these step-by-step instructions for configuring Feedburner to manage your blog’s RSS feed. My tutorial is based on the official FeedBurner tutorial.
- If you haven’t already, set up a feed reader. I recommend Google Reader, as it is extremely functional and you can log into it using your Google account.
- Go to Feedburner.com and set up a FeedBurner account for your site. Write down your user name and password somewhere!
- Download the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin to make your WordPress site play nice with Feedburner.
- Log into your site and activate the FeedSmith plugin. Go to Options–>Feedburner and type in the feed address that you created with FeedBurner.
- Your feeds are now managed through FeedBurner. Go back to your FeedBurner account and customize your feed settings.
- Under FeedBurner’s Optimize menu, consider the following: Smartfeed, Title/Description Burner, and Summary Burner.
- Under FeedBurner’s Publicize menu, consider the following: Pingshot, Chicklet Chooser and Creative Commons.
- Use your feed reader to subscribe to your own feed. You should soon (immediately?) see this subscription activity in the FeedBurner statistics, ensuring that everything you just did was successful.