Webmaster Cookbook

Last night we added Feedburner back to orting.com. When we upgraded from version 1.2xx to 1.5 of Wordpress during show #27, we neglected to change the feeds to Feedburner. That site shows using Feedburner with a website where the feeds are pointing to Feedburner.

But what if you don’t want to point subscribers directly to Feedburner? Some webmasters are concerned that what if Feedburner goes down, then your subscribers won’t get the RSS feeds, right? This is correct, but there is a solution on Feedburner’s forums.

EXAMPLE.
If you look at the feeds here, they appear to go to Webmaster Cookbook, but they are being redirected via htaccess to Feedburner. This is an example of redirecting the feeds behind the scenes. If you click through from Internet Explorer the feed looks like crap, btw, but if you subscribe to it in an RSS aggregator or use Firefox to click through then you’ll get a nice clean page with instructions about how to subscribe.