As with most things, there are usually multiple ways to get a job done.
Adding the Feedburner link to your WordPress blog is no different.
Some of the ways you can connect your Feedburner account to your blog are…
- Use any of the Feedburner chicklets and widgets.
- Manually add the link into your WordPress install
- Use a WordPress plugins.
In this tutorial I want to show you what I found to be the easiest way to add my Feedburner link to my site.
This method requires you use the FD Feedburner Plugin.
The first step is to create the Feedburner link for your site.
After you have your Feedburner link, the next step is to decided on how you want to install the FD Feedburner plugin.
To do a manual install follow the steps outlined in these articles.
- How To Download A Plugin For WordPress.
- How To Connect To Your Server With The Filezilla FTP Client.
- How To Install WordPress Plugins Using Filezilla
To install the plugin without using an FTP client follow the steps in this article.
Use the search by Term function with the keywords FD Feedburner Plugin to find the plugin.
Once you have installed and activated the plugin look in the settings sidebar for the text Feedburner Configuration under the Plugins section of the sidebar.
In the Feedburner Configuration page you will see two text boxes, this is where you add your Feedburner link.
The top text box Redirect my feeds here: is where you paste in your sites Feedburner link, the one below is used to redirect a Feedburner feed for your post comments.
Make sure you Click Save after you have filled in the desired fields.
And that’s it, your site is now linked directly to your Feedburner account.
So now every time someone Clicks on the Subscribe to RSS link, they will now be sent to a Feedburner page where they can choose how they want to receive and digest your RSS feed content.
