rkblake

The problem isn’t figuring out each Category in WordPress has it’s own rss feed/podcast capability…it’s figuring out how to forward each individual Category feed to an existing Feedburner feed so you can keep on tracking subscribers or pushing Adsense to them through the feed.

I had two separate podcasts on a paid “podcasting” service to serve the mp3s to my webpage visitors, itunes, and Feedburner feed subscribers.

The time came to move those recordings to my own server, create my own podcast enable feeds, and eliminate the cost of the service. Easy migration given WordPress Categories each have their own feed…I could create 2 new Categories…fill each up a recording per post…syndicate to itunes and Feedburner without losing any of the subscribers I currently had at both places.

Problem: How to get the new Category feeds to send posts to the “old” Feedburner feeds so as not to lose any subscribers…and yet not redirect the Feedburner bots when they come in looking for new posts.

The FeedSmith plugin solves the problem for your WordPress main feed….the https://sample.com/feed/ but what about the individual Category feeds?…the https://sample.com/category/samplecatname/feed/ …how is that going to get redirected to the already established Feedburner feed?

If you try a straight htaccess 301 redirect…it redirects visitors and bots alike, so the Feedburner feed never gets updated…

The FeedSmith hack plugin …
https://interfacelab.com/feedburner-wp-plugin-fix/

solves the problem…you can select per Category the Feedburner url you want to redirect that Category feed to…the plugin imports all your Category names with a box below to add your Feedburner feed url…simply perfect!

I just saved $20 a month by discontinuing my podcast service!

You really are Han Solo…works perfectly…even SEO’d the titles of the “non” UTW tag pages.

Wow!

I got it to work by pasting both bloglines keys at the end of statcounter code. Then creating a post using the HTML editor to get to the source view and pasting the first bloglines code, the feed code …all of it..as written.. into the body of the post..it worked.

For some reason the code gets garbled any other way…