Comments on: RSS in Plain English and Feedburner for Email Updates

By: timethief

timethief — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:34:44 +0000

I’m sorry to say I can’t help with this. I have used Feedburner for years and have not changed the original feeds I burned there. I think you ought to contact Feedburner support for help.

By: iano10

iano10 — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:33:14 +0000

Okay, I have a question. I made a feed for my blog, but the feed address isn’t what I want. I tried to change it from http://feeds.feedburner.com/wordpress/sIDZ to http://feeds.feedburner.com/whatsonthemenublog/ to make it easier to for people to find and remember. When I try to change it to the latter, it says “The uri you entered was invalid. If the suggestion below is acceptable, press Next again.” I don’t know what this means. Do I have to buy a domain to be able to change it? Maybe this isn’t the right place to ask a question about FeedBurner. If it isn’t, sorry.

By: timethief

timethief — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:05:59 +0000

I didn’t realize that was appearing so I’m off now to check. You’re right about this separation of subscribers it is frustrating.

By: Paul Ellis

Paul Ellis — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:55:51 +0000

To be honest, I subscribed accidentally (but I’m glad I did!). I meant to click the “notify me of follow-up comments” button but clicked the one underneath it which says “notify me of new posts via email.” This looks very much like a WP thing because I can manage the subscription in my WP dashboard.

So, I suspect you have a small group of WP.com subscribers who aren’t showing up in your Feedburner lists. As a subscriber, I value the opportunity to set the frequency of email deliveries (via my WP dashboard). I’m not sure I can do that with Feedburner. As a blogger, it’s a little frustrating to have two separate groups of subscribers.

By: timethief

timethief — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:35:41 +0000

We wordpress.com members all have the ability to subscribe using the button is on our Admin bar.
All of our blogs have bother RSS feeds for post and comments and anyone can subscribe and use a feed reader.
In addition we can enable blog subscriptions bia wordpress.com blog subscriptions widhet. (I have not done this).
The Feedburner icon is in my sidebar “Subscribe and Follow”. It’s the one with the image of the fire on it.
I assume you subscribed by using the “subscribe” link on the gray navigation bar. is that correct?

By: Paul Ellis

Paul Ellis — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:35:22 +0000

So you’re saying you have a Feedburner subscription. I understand the reasons why but I’m a little confused because the welcome message I got from one cool site had a WordPress logo on the bottom. I guess that happens automatically because your Feedburner code is in a WP text widget? Tricky stuff!

The other thing that confused me was the lack of a verification link in the welcome message. I’m guessing that’s because I had signed up while active in my WP.com account. If that’s the case, then that’s a good argument for using the WP text widget too (as it reduces the number of steps req’d to subscribe, for some). Prior to this experience, I was planning on inserting a link that would lead to the standard Feedburner sign-up page. Thanks for taking the time to share, by the way. I appreciate it!