WordPress FeedBurner Plugin

I have to say Steve, you are building a nice little list of WordPress plugins. I would think that they’ll get quite a bit of use. Do you have an idea of how many times your underscore plugin has been downloaded already at all?

Good work man!

There seems to be a bug in the plugin. After clicking the “begin redirecting” button in the plugin’s option page, the plugin doesnt seem to remember to also include the randomly generated url rewrite rule created in step 1. Thus, any attempts afterwards to request this randomly generated url would generate 404s.

Since this randomly generated url returns a 404, feedburner would be unable to resync and update with wordpress.

Joe: Upon reviewing the code, I had to rework the way I applied the filters to various elements. I believe I have it working correctly now. I also fixed two other bugs, one dealing with line-breaks in the file itself, and another when the .htaccess file wasn’t writable. I have updated the file in the download, so if you redownload and reinstall, it should work properly now. Thanks for the catch.

Thanks for the quick update, works as it should now. Thanks for providing the plugin :)

Yo,

This seems like it’s gonna be great – but the options page is blank for me. Any idea why? I just activated the plugin, then went to Options > FeedBurner and nothing. Just the WP footer.

I have the same problem that Matt Brett is having – options page is blank/only the WP footer.

Matt and Justin: I believe that issue can be solved with a patch to WordPress 1.5. Evidently there was an incorrect variable name used somewhere in the WordPress core, but applying this patch should correct everything.

Bingo. Thanks for the help.

Indeed, worked for me as well. Thank you sir!

This plugin is exactly what I’m looking for! If only I could get it to work. The random url is still giving me a 404 page. Any ideas?

Using 1.5 since March. I fixed the bug, installed the plugin, followed the directions, when I went to check the feed I get 404. What happened? Do I need to change all the auto detect links? I’ll check. Please advise. I don’t want to lose my feeds now!

I resynced feedburner acct. (after editing the feed) I don’t know yet if that did it, but I hope so.

Changed the auto detect links in the template header. (was that necessary? just curious?)

Should I also change the pingback link? I think not, but need confirmation. thanks

Garnet: I have fixed a bug in the script that should fix your 404 issue. Just re-download and re-install, and you should be all set.

I get the message that feed traffic is now through feedburner. I assume that’s the confirmation I need. Thanks.

There is still one last 404 bug that is floating whenever a person has their wordpress install in a subfolder of the website.

When you click on “Verify your redirected feed” it generates one there as well. The problem is that it doesn’t have the full blog url. Just the domain part and it is only appending /feed/ to that. I have fixed it and it is a really easy fix especially since the first page you see has the url correct.

Search for “blogurl”—this should be the only entry. Change it to “siteurl”.

This was an easy enough of a mistake and probably overlooked. BTW, your plugin works great.

Steve, Something odd is happening with FB. I don’t know where the problem is arising, but it’s picking up the alpahbetical order of admin post listings, or something, but it’s not showing the last post first, as my published blog shows. Could your plugin be causing this?

I’m checking with Nicer Archives to see how the posts can be ordered differently, but they’re showing the correct order on the blog. And I kind of like them in Alpha order in admin.

Also, shen I click on the actual feed address created by your plugin (which some stranger sent to me!! on a forum, how did he get it!!) I get a 404, so I still don’t know if it’s working. I put in the new file. How can I test if everthing is good?

Thanks,

Robert: Thanks for the catch. Logically, I expected it to be the other way around, but I setup a test blog in another folder, and it did error out as you said. And your fix was correct. I’ve applied the changes and updated the download file. Thanks again.

I still get a 404 error. I have my wordpress installed in /folder and the blog is published to the front page. Could this be causing the problem?

Steve, still have a problem. When I run Nicer Archives, my feedburner feed stars to show in Alph. Nicer Archives orders my admin post lists in alph for easier archiving. But this should NOT affect the feed. My blog still posts most recent first. My atom and rss feed read latest first. But feedburner plugin still calls to the Alphabetized list, so new posts don’t show unless they start with A.

Where does your plugin call for the latest post?

garnet: My plugin does not modify any feeds whatsoever. My guess is that this is the way FeedBurner is understanding your feed. I would check with the creators of the Nicer Archives plugin to see if anything they modified could be creating the issues. All my plugin does is mess with redirection, it doesn’t create or modify any feeds at all.

I am having the same 404 error problem, even after correcting the hook issue with the fix from Skippy’s site. Any idea or solution? Wordpress is installed and configured to publish to the root of my url but nothing I do seems to create the feed.

Thanks – if I can get this working I can see where it will be a great tool.

Sue: It should be noted that currently, in order for this to work, you need to activate permalinks. This can be done via ‘Options’ -> ‘Permalinks’ in your WP admin.

Ignore my last post – I got it working once I pulled an extra space out of the php in the hook repair here: http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/03/20/wordpress-bug-902/

Working fine now, thanks!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Glitteringmuse http://glitteringstew.com/muse/wp-rss2.php

Those two feeds give different posts listings.

Anyway, will it cause problems to deactivate the redirection and deactivate the plugin? I ask, since the plugin altered the htaccess files. I don’t want to use feedburner.

thanks, G

I changed the FB feed back to rss and now it works fine. I don’t know enough about this to really say why, but I’ll take whatever works! Thanks, G If you have any other suggestions or ideas, please tell me. I’d like to use your plugin, because it consolidates all my feeds nicely. I haven’t heard a word from Nicer Archives, but I’ll let you know if I do.

Hi

I just activated this plugin and updated the URL as you mentioned and now my site is dead with a 500 server error.

Any ideas why?

Thanks Karl

can someone explain to me in baby language what the sole purpose of this plugin is and why I should bother using it?

Randomized link just don’t work.

http://www.elyonline.co.uk/news/feedburner_681603/

This gives me a 404.

Why ?

Is there no support for this plugin? I posted a few days ago now.

Thnaks

I know absolutely NOTHING about php, sql, or any of these things…but found your plug-in incredibly easy to implement. No errors, no problems, just working—and I run two WordPress blogs on the same server, same sql database. Thanks!

Does it work for category feeds, search feeds and individual post feeds?

Hi! There was an error in plugin that caused the rewrite rule to be like /wordpresshttp://[feedburber_feed here]. My blog is in ‘wordpress’ folder. You need to edit fix_mod_rewrite function and write get_settings(‘siteurl’) instead of get_settings(‘home’) in it. After that the error disappears…

Great work!

Hello, It seems to be some errors at me… I set the CHMOD of my .htaccess file to 777 (writeable and executeable for everyone) and started to follow the steps in the deocumentation. At neither steps had I anything written in the boxes but my .htaccess file did not change. After, Feedburner said that the URI was not pointing to a valid feed and did not save it. Then, obviously I did not get my permalinks pointing to my feedburner. Please mail me if you know what I done wrong! Thank you.

Works like a charm on WordPress 1.5.1.2. This is much easier than managing .htaccess myself. Thanks!

in what format must the permalinks be? i use them as default (index.php?p=xx) and maybe this is the problem? still can’t get it running… anyone can help me please??

Very nice. I had to nuke my original .htaccess, as I think it had some weird legacy junk in it, but once I did that it worked first time.

I installed this plugin on a test site. The WordPress installation is located at /folder, but is accessed via a subdomain, so it appears at http://folder.domain.com. I have no idea what .htaccess is, and have never seen an option in WP to “automatically update .htaccess,” and the dialog with the things that need to be added to the .htaccess is completely blank. When I try to register on FeedBurner with the provided link, it displays a 404 Not Found error. Help!

An update: I got my webhost to help me figure out how to make my .htaccess writable, and we got the plugin to update the .htaccess, but the Error 404 is still there! Help!

It’s all working very nicely, but I’m trying to get another plugin to work as well and there seems to be some conflict with the rewrite rules: http://vapourtrails.ca/wp-keywords

Has anyone tried running both at the same time?

I, too am having the same problemas webmacster87. I post the randomly generated URI into feeburner and I get a 404 Error…

I just installed this plugin and at first was getting 404’s from the /feed/ url. It turned out that I had copied at pasted the feedburner url from the address bar in safari, which had automatically rewritten http:// as feed://.

So maybe the plugin could be changed for numpties like myself? Or others could take this post as a warning :D

It is not redirecting my feed.

http://Dancameron.org/feed/

Please help.

Sorry. Got it. It seemed I had two mods on top of each other in my .htaccess file.

WEIRD.

I tried using this plugin, but it just gave me 404 errors, so I disabled it. I’m using the latest version of WP. 1.5.1.3.

I tried this plugin too, I thought it was a great idea. Thanks for the hard work putting it together! Everything seemed to go smoothly when I installed it, but when I go to the Feedburner site to check out my stats, there aren’t any. Do people have to re-subscribe to their feeds? I thought the purpose of this plugin was to avoid this. How do I know if my feeds are going through Feedburner or not?

I’m enjoying this plugin, but had some trouble getting it installed and configured properly.

It turns out that if your Permalink structure includes /index.php at the beginning (mine was /index.php/year/monthnum/day/postname/) the .htaccess redirect rules will not work properly. Once I changed the structure of my permalinks (to /year/monthnum/day/postname/) it worked like a charm.

I hope this helps somebody else…

Thank God. I’ve been fighting with ReWrite all day. I found this plugin, installed it, and it worked perfectly on the first try. It was the first plugin I installed in my WordPress installation. Thank you so much for a wonderful conclusion to my rotten day!

Plugin was working fine a week ago and today its dead:

http://www.willsdownloads.com/blog/feed/

:( I changed nothing. Guess they banned the script or something?

first thank you for your great plugins. Unfortunately, I can’t get this one to work. like others i have my wp in a seperate wordpress folder. and have index.php to get my perma-links to work (can’t seem to get them to work without that). and i get a 404 with the url that the plugin generates. any help would be grately appreciated. thank you.

i ended up being able to get rid of the index.php and still have permalinks working and viola your plugin works lovely. thank you again for your great site and work.

To repeat, index.php MUST NOT be a part of your permalinks structure, edit it so that it is not present, or else you will get errors.

Hey, a really great plugin! Could this also be made available for the Comment-Feeds?

I am getting a 404 error when the unique URL is generated…and Feedburner isn’t accepting the link either.

How do I fix this?

Thanks

The first time I tried it there were errors, so I deavtivated it, then reactivated it again. Everything syncs up and works great. Thanks for the plugin. I recommend that people should make a copy of their original .htaccess before modifying their feeds. I monitor my sites with feedreader and noticed it is still working off of the old feeds. But I do appreciate this plugin tremendously.

Apparently it seem to redirect:

blogURL/feed/rss2

but my excisting feed has the URL structure:

blogURL/?feed=rss2

so basically it doesn’t work for me…any ideas how to modify the rewrite rule to cover also my excisting structure?

FYI, I had an error ‘cannot redefine function ol_feedburner_dostuff on line 33’. I modified the plugin code as following :

Line 31, add : if (!function_exists(‘ol_add_feedburner_options_page’)) { then all the function definitions, then at the end : } else { ol_feedburner_options_subpanel(); } add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘ol_add_feedburner_options_page’); ?>

Now it works. And to be honest, having written a few plugin myself, I don’t understand how it was supposed to work without this modification :)

Really great plugin by the way.

First, thanks for this aweome and easy to use plugin. I know very little about this stuff.

Second, I am have the same problem as Mikael above.

blogURL/?feed=rss2

is not redirecting. blogURL/feed/ is, the former is the default on WP for me I think, and what users were suing.

suing -> using. Sorry ;)

Hello, I have downloaded your latest version and installed it, but I have encountered problems. I posted both at the Feedburner forums site as well as the WP support site with details of the problems and error messages I have received. Can you please take a look at my problem and offer some suggestions? Thanks!

Doesn’t work here due to improperly generated rewrite rules.

My blog is at http://www.viper007bond.com/ with my WordPress files being at http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress/ .

The rules that are made are:

I also want all of my different feed formats to keep working, so I guess I’ll just make the edits manually.

But still, just thought I’d inform you of the bug.

How do I get my .htaccess file? I can’t seem to fine it.

I have the same problem as Viper007Bond. My site is at http://cory.deppen.us/ and the WP files are at http://cory.deppen.us/wordpress/.

It would be nice to be able to use this plugin for my comments feed as well. Any chance of that happening?

Is the error I keep getting for this plugin

I installed the plugin and followed the instructions, and although the .htaccess had been updated the feeds were still being served by wordpress and not feedburner. I found a tip on the wordpress site suggesting that you need to update your permalinks, so I went in to the permalinks page, hit OK and suddenly my feeds were getting re-directed to feedburner. Might help someone else out.

Cheers for the plugin, Steve.

Thanks for writing the plug-in – I am interested in it and I want to say I haven’t written one myself and am a total consumer of free plug-ins - I realise you have put a lot of effort in.

I couldn’t get this plug-in to work – I am not a programmer but I have installed many wordpress plug-ins. Can you imagine my frustration when I see people above saying – wow it was my first plugin installation – great!

1) Too many variables 2) Needs a better readme.txt file

Specifically – it mentions a box to copy data into the .htacess file but there is no bloody box except the one sitting on my kitchen table.

3) Could do with a preamble explaining what it does better and why you should use it.

The error I kept getting was an invalid feed 404 error from the random feed.

I have permalinks activated – I don’t want to take out index.php because I don’t want to mess with any external links into my site. ( not sure if it will but I’m not willing to take the risk for the sake of a plugin)

Sayoonara on this one until the bugs are ironed out.

FYI – I am running the “Search Meter” plug-in (http://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/wordpress/search-meter-wordpress-plugin/) and I was unable to view your Options page when I had it activated. While it was active, your link displayed the Search Meter options page. I deactivated that plug-in and I was able to view your Options page.

I will be reactvating Search Meter once I am all setup. I’ll let you know if that causes any problems once I am in production.

Sweet! Nice work.

I was just about the go muck with the core php code when I found this plugin. Much cleaner and simpler. Like the redirect, too. Thanks!

Thank you for the Great work on the feedburner plugin.