2010年、私たちはFeedBurnerのセットアップ方法に関する人気のステップ・バイ・ステップ・ガイドを書いた。1年ちょっと前、私たちはすべてのサイトでFeedBurnerの使用をやめることにしました。それ以来、FeedBurnerの様々なバグや問題などについて、何百もの質問を受け取ってきました。この投稿では、FeedBurnerの使用を避けるべき理由についてお話します。すでにFeedBurnerを使用している場合は、FeedBurnerの使用をやめる必要がある理由と、信頼できるFeedBurnerの代替に移行する方法を紹介します。
FeedBurnerは、数年前に多くのブロガーが頼りにしていたGoogleのRSSフィード管理サービスである（RSSとは？）GoogleはまだFeedBurnerを閉鎖していないが、GoogleがFeedBurnerを閉鎖するという噂は以前からあった。
FeedBurnerは、私たちが覚えている限り、何の機能も更新も見ていない。FeedBurner APIは閉鎖された。フィード向けアドセンス機能も廃止された。これらはすべて2012年に起こったことだ。
では、なぜ2年後の今、このことについて書いているのだろうか？
それは、FeedBurnerに関するユーザーからのメールをいまだに受け取っているからです。過去30日間で、私たちの古いFeedBurnerセットアップ・ガイドは、検索エンジンのトラフィックから3500人以上のユニークビジターを獲得しました。FeedBurnerにはサポートがないため、バグレポートやサポート依頼が何十件も寄せられています。
私たちは、関係するすべてのユーザーに、より最新の投稿を紹介したいと思います。
FeedBurnerの代替
購読者分析やアドセンスによる収益化の他に、FeedBurnerはブロガーが好む2つの主な機能を提供していた。
- FeedBurnerは、ユーザーへの共有オプションの提供とともに、ブロガーにRSSフィードを表示する優れた方法を提供した。
- FeedBurnerは、ユーザーがメールでブログを購読するための無料で簡単な方法を提供した。
それでは、FeedBurnerをより優れた代替品に置き換えた方法を見てみましょう。
WPBeginnerでは、初期設定のWordPressフィードを使用し、独自に管理しています。初期設定のWordPressフィードを使用することで、フィードをコントロールすることができます。私たちは、WordPressの初期設定に頼り、フィードを自分で管理することをユーザーに推奨しています。その理由は以下の通りです：
共有オプションできれいなフィード表示
人々はあなたのコンテンツを読むためにあなたのフィードURLにアクセスするのではないことを理解する必要があります。その代わりに、ほとんどの人はFeedly、Flipbook、GoogleのNewsstandなどのフィード読者を利用している。これらのフィードリーダーは、FeedBurnerが5年ほど前に行っていたタスクのほとんどをすでに実行している。
FeedBurnerをより良いフィード表示とソーシャル共有のために使っているのであれば、もうその必要はない。しかし、ユーザーにあなたのサイトを購読する方法を教えることはできます。
メールによるブログ購読
ブログの更新をメールで受け取ることを好むユーザーはまだ多いので、この機能を置き換えることは非常に重要です。
JetPackプラグインはFeedBurnerのメール購読機能に最も近い代替機能を提供していますが、私たちはユーザーにその使用を強くお勧めしません。
なぜか？FeedBurnerのように、購読者に独占的な更新を送ることができないからです。購読者を更新する唯一の方法は、公開投稿をすることです。
正しい方法で物事を行うと決めたのですから、メールリストの作成を始めることをお勧めします。
MailChimpやAWeberなどの専門的なメールマーケティングサービスを利用すれば、Eメールによるブログ購読を提供することができます。何人のユーザーがメールを開封したのか、何人がクリックしたのかなど、より良い分析結果を得ることができます。
また、より多くのユーザーに更新情報を届けることができます。最後に、柔軟性とオプションがあります。
例えば、複数の購読オプション（毎日更新、毎週更新など）を設定することができます。
私たちのサイトではMailchimpを使用しており、購読者2000人までは無料です。
それでは、FeedBurnerからどのように移行できるかを見ていきましょう。
FeedBurnerからの移行
FeedBurnerのメール購読サービスを利用していた場合、まずやるべきことは、購読者をエクスポートすることです。FeedBurnerアカウントにログインし、フィードをクリックします。その後、「購読者の詳細を見る」というリンクをクリックします。
次の画面で、「メール購読サービス」セクションまでスクロールダウンし、「FeedBurner Email Subscriptions」をクリックします。セクションが展開され、メール購読者リストを管理するためのリンクが表示されます。リンクをクリックすると、メール購読者が表示されます。
FeedBurnerにメール購読者のリストが表示されます。リストの上にCSVエクスポートのリンクがあります。クリックすると、CSV形式でリストがダウンロードされます。このファイルをMailChimpやAWeberなど、お好きなメールマーケティングサービスにインポートすることができます。
当サイトではMailChimpを使用しているため、MailChimpのインポート機能をご紹介します。他のプロバイダーも同じような手順です。
まず最初に、MailChimpのダッシュボードにログインし、MailChimpで新規リストを作成します。
新規リストを作成したら、FeedBurnerからダウンロードしたCSVファイルを使って購読者をインポートします。まず、MailChimpダッシュボードのリストメニューをクリックし、新しく作成したリストを選択します。リスト管理ページに移動します。そこで、購読者 ” 購読者のインポートをクリックします。
次の画面で、「CSVまたはTXTファイルからインポート」オプションをクリックして、FeedBurnerからダウンロードしたCSVファイルをインポートします。
リストをインポートしたら、RSS to Emailキャンペーンを作成する必要があります。
メールマーケティングサービスによって、この機能の名称は異なります。Mailchimpでは、RSS to Emailキャンペーンと呼びます。AWeberでは、ブロードキャストと呼ばれています。メールマーケティングサービス名とブログRSS」でGoogle検索すれば、チュートリアルが見つかります。
すべての設定が完了したら、FeedBurnerのメール購読をオフにして、ユーザーが2通のメールを受け取らないようにします。FeedBurnerの「Publicize」タブで、左カラムの「Email Subscriptions」リンクをクリックします。
メール購読者を新しいメールサービスに移行する際、購読者を失う可能性がありますが、これはおそらくあなたが望んでいない非アクティブな購読者であることを覚えておいてください。
FeedBurner購読者をWordPressフィードにリダイレクトする。
WordPressのフィードURLをFeedBurnerのページにリダイレクトすることは、ブロガーにとって一般的だった。FD FeedBurnerのようなプラグインを使用する人もいれば、テーマのビルトイン機能を使用する人もおり、より精通した人はコードスニペットを使用していました。
WordPressの初期設定のフィードをリダイレクトするために上記の方法を使用している場合は、すぐに使用を中止してください。
フィードをリダイレクトしているかどうかを確認する最善の方法は、RSSフィードのURLにアクセスすることです：
http://www.yoursite.com/feed/
これがFeedBurnerにリダイレクトされる場合は、まだ修正されていません。
次の投稿日：ブログ投稿をし、購読者にURLの更新を依頼し、場合によっては他の読者を使ってあなたのサイトを購読する方法を教育する。
重要：FeedBurnerのフィードを削除しないでください。FeedBurnerのフィードを削除すると、購読者がリダイレクトされると思われるサイトがありますが、それは違います。それはひどい考えで、購読者を失うことになる。なぜ？
フィードを削除すると、FeedBurnerはフィードが移動したことを読者に知らせる投稿を追加するからです。この場合、ユーザーのフィードリーダーのフィードURLは自動的に更新されません。ユーザーが15日以内に何も行動を起こさなければ、その購読者は永遠に失われます。さらに、30日後には、競合他社があなたのFeedBurnerのURLを主張することができ、フィードを更新しなかったすべてのユーザーが彼の更新を受け取るようになります。
もう一度言いますが、FeedBurnerのフィードを削除しないでください。
単純に、読者にURLを更新するよう通知するブログ投稿をするのだ。どのようにすれば更新できるか、リソースを提供する。
その後、FeedBurnerのフィードはゆっくりと死んでいく。
こうすることで、RSS読者であなたのフィードのURLを更新しない人は、まだ新しいコンテンツを入手し続けることができ、新しい読者はすべて正しい方法で購読することができる。
購読フォーム、購読ページ、その他の作成
メールリストの作成とWordPressフィードURLの初期設定が完了しましたので、FeedBurner URLに関する記述をすべて削除し、メール登録フォームを更新するなど、サイトを適切に更新してください。
サイトにサインアップフォームを追加するには、OptinMonsterを使用することをお勧めします。サイドバーサインアップフォーム、投稿後フォーム、フローティングフッターバー、スライドイン、ライトボックスポップアップなど、効果的なオプトインフォームを作成することができます。
私たちのサイトでも使用しており、メールリストを600%増やすことができました。
次に、読者がどのようにサイトを購読できるかを示す購読ページを作りたいと思うでしょう。
WordPressの初期設定のフィードを使用しているので、多くの柔軟性とカスタマイズオプションがあります。
RSSフィードにサムネイルを追加したり、RSSフィードに他のカスタムコンテンツを追加したり、完全にカスタムRSSフィードを作成することもできます。
WordPressにビルトインされているもう一つの便利な機能は、カテゴリー別フィードです。カテゴリーRSSフィードを使えば、ユーザーが個々のカテゴリーを購読できるようにすることができます。WordPressでユーザーがカテゴリーを購読できるようにする方法の投稿をお読みください。
このガイドが、FeedBurnerの廃止に対処し、より良いオプションに移行する方法を見つける手助けになれば幸いです。FeedBurnerの使用を中止することを強くお勧めします。
この投稿が気に入ったなら、YouTubeチャンネルに登録してWordPressの動画チュートリアルをご覧ください。また、Twitterや Google+にもご参加ください。
Andrew Blackman
Very useful, thanks! I signed up with Feedburner back in the pre-Google days, and I’ve stuck with it out of laziness all these years. Finally getting around to moving away from it, and this guide is just what I needed.
Ryan
Feedburner now allows for a permanent redirect when deleting a feed. There’s no longer a 30 day window.
Ankit Dhadwal
I have seen other Rss platform like Alltop. Can you please post a tutorial for this. I have been struggling to figure it out how to use it. Others can also find it useful.
Thanks
WPBeginner Support
Hey Ankit,
Please see our guide What is RSS and how to use RSS in WordPress?
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Leslie Myricks
Hello,
I recently subscribed to Feedburner. I went on to other services to enter my blog info. Each time I entered it into Feedage, I got a message saying it wasn’t working. It said take the url and enter it in search. If my feed came up, (which it did) that was supposed to let me know I have the correct url. However, whenever I attempt to submit it to other services, I get the same message. I don’t understand. Maybe you can advise. Thanks!
Coach Maria
Well, I’ve decided to use feedburner for what it’s worth
I do have an ezine, too. I tried Jetpack’s version of subscribing and actually liked it since people get new posts delivered without me having to do anything.
What I’d say is that IF your ideal audience likes RSS feeds (as mine seems to), then use it. If not, don’t.
Anne
The main problem I see is the difficulty in switching from a free service to a paid service. Website after website talks about MailChimp and other services being free, but it’s only if you have a small number of subscribers. At the same time, these blogs tell us how we should be CONSTANTLY growing our subscribers. Which means we will quickly outgrow the “free” service.
Which will then cost about $40 or more per month.
Could you write an article about truly FREE Rss to Email programs like Feedburner? Or maybe there’s a paid service out there that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg if you have more than 2000 subscribers?
Thanks!
Don
99% of rss feeds are not read, they exist today only for SEO purposes. You use feedburner because google owns it. Period.
Leslie
feedburner changed my original feed to
I know you said not to delete it, but I, sadly have no subscribers here. However, I use the above rss for my mailchimp account. Is that easily fixable? It doesn’t matter if I delete the above feed and return to using my original from wordpress?
WPBeginner Support
Hey Leslie,
If you used your FeedBurner feed to send your posts via email to your MailChimp email list, then you can edit the integration and replace FeedBurner feed with your WordPress RSS feed.
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malcolm
i dont want feedburner or its alternatives as i have no use for them but i keep getting a message from feedburner with some sort of gambling link how do i stop all feedburner links. i have never subscribed to them so would like to stop them please help
p.s idont have an account with them
WPBeginner Support
Hi Malcolm,
If you are getting this in your WordPress site’s comments section, then those are called trackbacks. See our guide on how to how to stop WordPress trackback spam.
If you are getting them in your email, then report them as spam and your email filters will start sending those emails to spam.
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toni
wordpress feed requires users to make a wordpress account.
that is to much efford. most won’t go through that. even feedburner having to type email address, code and a confirmation email is to much for most. is there and option with facebook?
Thomas
I don’t know if these comment threads are still monitored, but I started with Feedburner back in the beginning and am finally making the transition away. The problem is I use it to track podcast downloads. What’s a good alternative?
David P
Please help. I am new to WordPress and all this RSS stuff and I find it all very confusing. Someone please help me to understand. Perhaps an article that simplifies for actual WordPress beginners, everything about RSS, from what it is to how to use it and how to set it up in WordPress, RSS Feed, RSS Feed subscriptiona and all that jazz… would be much appreciated.
I am currently setting up a new WordPress site that is going to replace another live WordPress site. But before I begin setting up RSS subscription or a new RSS feed or RSS whatever for the new site I imagine I need to determine whether the current site already has all this, an associated Feedburner account perhaps or any subscribers for that matter. How do I do this? The WP theme I am using has a Newsletter subscription widget that includes in it’s settings an option to enter a Feedburner URI. If I should not bother with Feedburner then perhaps I should not bother with this widget. Maybe I should just go ahead and replace it with a widget from Mailchimp and in the event that current subscribers to the old RSS feed get dropped then I will cross that bridge when I reach it but first…. how do I start?
WPBeginner Support
Please check out our beginner’s guide: What is RSS? How to use RSS in WordPress?
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monique
Hi Syed and team, Your article is very much about getting away from feedburner. Can you do one on how to set up an rss feed and what it is and how it works with aweber, etc I still don’t get how it is different to subscribing with email if rss sends you an email anyway. I’m just starting out and I don’t need the move away from feedburner stuff and it’s left me very confused as to what to do now. thank you!
WPBeginner Support
Hi monique,
RSS it self does not send email to subscribers when you publish a new article. For that you will need an email service. The email service provider then uses your WordPress RSS feed to fetch articles and automatically email them to your subscribers. Hope this helped, let us know if you have more questions.
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Erin
I feel like I’m missing something here. I moved away from Feedburner YEARS ago when they first announced they would not longer update the API. I moved to Feedblitz and run that feed through Mailchimp in an rss campaign.
The issue I’m having, and how I stumbled upon this post, is that Feedblitz inserts a 1×1 pixel image in the feed and Mailchimp converts it to a 600×600 pixel image that pushes my feed content down the page. SO I’m looking for alternatives. But is having to run the Wordpress Feed through an rss service even a thing anymore? Can I skip the whole rss service and run the domain.com/feed straight through Mailchimp’s rss campaign for auto sends?
TIA!
WPBeginner Support
Yes, you can use the default WordPress RSS feed through MailChimp’s RSS to email campaign.
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Ron
One thing I hate about Mailchimp is that it displays my physical address and email at the final confirmation message to subscribers. I mentioned that to customer service but it’s part of the anti-spam policy. Address should be kept confidential for a variety of reasons.
I also don’t like the captcha ….there is no way of disabling that functionality. It’s a pain and can turn people off from signing up.
Vince
I totally agree. I’m looking to switch from mailchimp before my list starts to grow.
Candice
Hi. I am 3 weeks into building my first blog on WP, haven’t thought about acquiring email lists that much as opposed putting contents in… I have downloaded this plug- in called Ultimate Social Media Plus… It also come with this prompt that ask reader to subscribe for new posts… How is things like different from MailChimp? The WP also has a widget that let’s me put a subscription box on the pages… again, how are these different from these email services you guys are talking about? I have v. little technology background, hopefully my question is not too silly. Thanks in advance!!!
WPBeginner Support
Please take a look at our guide on why you should start building your email list right away.
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Dan Stafford
What I’m wondering is how to replace Feedburner’s podcast listing support & pingshot services.
ikomrad
Same here. I get most of my news from Feedly, and I would like to register with them so that if someone searches for my blog in Feedly, they can find it and subscribe to my rss feed.
Is there a way to do that?
WPBeginner Support
Hi ikomrad, take a look at our guide on how to optimize your WordPress RSS feed. It has tips on optimizing your WordPress site for Feedly so that your blog is more prominently displayed in Feedly.
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Henning Uhle
Great post. Thank you. But one thing is strange.
Mailchimp works like a charm. I use RSS driven campaigns that send out emails to my subscribers once a day at a specific time. If WordPress RSS isn’t available at this time, no email is sent. And the Mailchimp guys informed me to use Feedburner or other RSS caching services to prevent this issue.
And since Feedburner didn’t die, I use it as recommended by Mailchimp. Now I think about switching to Google Newsstand to have a RSS caching service that’s more future-like. But I am not sure if Mailchimp works together with it. But I will try.
Cheers, Henning
shan
There is no alternative to feed burner right now. Because this is a free service. And emails never go to spam folder. If you have lot of money to burn for email subscription close feedburner service and find alternative.
Yeah sure
Of course. FB is sent by google so it is still the best way to deliver email.
Alana
Thank you for all of the tips! I just switched over to MailChimp and this helped a ton!
andrea
I switched to Aweber about a month ago. When we imported my subscribers into Aweber, there were no names, just email addresses. Does feedburner even capture first name? If not, Yikes! Not sure how I can go back and capture the names of 600 subscribers!
WPBeginner Support
You can contact Aweber support. You may have to require all your users to confirm subscription again.
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Ganesh
Nice post thanks for sharing feed burner information .
Kady
Thanks so much for this blog post! It was so helpful as I switched all my email posts from Feedburner and Jetpack to Mailchimp!
Nostromov
Ugh, dunno whether you guys are unaware – or, what?! FeedBurner is dead and gone… Its domains, feedburner.com/ & feedburner.org/ are parked; outside of Google, it does *not* exist any longer!..
Perhaps updating the article, or something, would be good?? :))
Josh
Those domains were deactivated about 5-6 years ago after Google’s takeover of the Feedburner service was completed. Feedburner can now be found at feedburner.google.com.
Jennifer Harry
I use newsletter plugin to send newsletters, but I have a problem understanding what to do about sending regular newsletters. I suppose I’ll just have to focus on it and get it done, but it’s difficult when you have a million other jobs to do!
Lance McGrew
Email subscriptions are becoming or have become old-school. Instant push notifications are the new way. Better instant gratification experience, no problem with your feeds ending up in junk mail folders. Get your subscriber’s attention even when their email client app is not open. Problem is, I am not finding a clear way of integrating instant push notifications with WordPress posts. Feedburner 30-minute push is insufficient. Boxcar2 requires user to manually type in a custom URL. No obvious way to allow subscribers to custom select what feeds or notifications they want pushed to their mobile devices.
Vince
No sure I agree. fads come and go but email list is still king in iM.
Kimm Boes
Hello, I am searching for help regarding a feed issue. I recently acquired a blog, my second, and installed a new theme. I also exported the feedburner subscribers to Mailchimp and set up an RSS campaign within Mailchimp to send my new posts to my subscribers each morning. The problem is that my feed is not updating, so mailchimp is not getting the notification that new content has posted, and isn’t sending out the e-mail. As I understand it, my feed still comes from feedburner, but when I log in to that account, it shows old content, from before I acquired the blog. If I click on “resync”, it will update, but it reverts back. Can you help?
Daniel Boswell
This comment thread seems a bit old but for those who are inquiring about MailChimp, the RSS to Email feature works in the free version. There are also a few free RSS email templates to chose from that have everything already set up. When going through the RSS to Email setup process, one of the steps lets you select your template. Just add your logo or your name in text on the banner, make any color changes you want, and adjust the font if you don’t like whats there, and you should be good to go.
Chaz DeSimone
Daniel, thanks for posting even though “this thread seems old.” I need to install RSS and Mailchimp, and your two points about RSS to Email working in the free version, and that I can choose a template and make some simple customization, is the clincher for me. Thank you. (The site I’m building now is for silent films of 100 years ago– . Threading film on a 1906 Powergraph is an “old thread”!)
Jim
You recommend using the default WP rss feed, but it is broken and does not generate xml files that work. (WP 4.2.2)
Eli
Hi,
Your blog is very good!
Small question, I’m using with word press blog’s building and have RSS program by WP. When I’m clicking in RSS icon at my website, at Explorer internet the RSS feed is appearing well but at Chrome it’s not appearing. Why? How can I fix so it will appear also at Chrome?
looking forward & thank you!
Eli Kassel.
Lucky Bhumkar
Most valuable post. Thanks for alerting me before fall into the trap of Feedburner.
Sonia
I recently moved to MailChimp and now want to stop using FeedBurner altogether, but I’m afraid I have no idea how to get that done…
Now that FeedBurner offers a permanent redirection option, would you say that deleting the feed would be an acceptable way of redirecting the feed back to the original source, i.e. wordpress, or would I still need to take additional steps even if I did that? It has been years since I started using FeedBurner and now I have no idea how to undo that. I know for a fact that I didn’t use a redirect plugin and I wouldn’t have modified the header.php file, as I have no idea how to do that…
I am at a loss as to how to recover my feed and ditch FeedBurner… Please help!
suryatejaaaa
but,the problem with mailchimp is when we send the emails through mailchimp,they will go directly to promotions tab and no one will care about them..If you have any suggestion better tell me..
Tri Wahyudi
For me Feedburner remain useful for capturing traffic to my blog
Lukas Brandt
What about Feedpress.it?
Nancy Ward
I have 50 email subscribers that are listed on Feedburner and getting email updates. I also have 740 registered users that are not listed on Feedburner as subscribers and therefore not getting emails. What are my options to moving from Feedburner to another email app to incorporate the registered users?
Quinn W
Thanks so much for this! I do have one question – you mentioned being able to put together a campaign for either a blog category or tag in Mailchimp RSS to email. I’ve tried to do both, but Mailchimp seems to revert it every time back to my main blog feed. Do you have any insight as to why? ~Quinn
Mary A. Axford
My blog uses Feedburner to let people subscribe by email. Very early on (blog started in mid-2012) I could log on. However, I started getting a message to log in to claim my Feedburner account, the ID and password didn’t work. The only way I knew to try and get help was to post on a Google forum, and so far Google has ignored mine and a lot of other people’s request for help on this. Any ideas? I don’t want to force my email subscribers to subscribe via something else. Thanks!
WPBeginner Staff
MailChimp has a feature called RSS to Email.
Kennis Wong
MailChimp is not exactly an alternative to email subscription of blog posting, is it? My understanding is that you will need to manually create an email to send to your subscribers if you are using MailChimp, whereas in Wordpress Jetpack, your subscribers automatically receive an email alert for any new post. I see the two services are complimentary to each other (although it could be confusing to readers if you have two separate sign-ups). Correct me if I am wrong about MailChimp though.
Anya
The paid version of mailchimp can be programmed to pull in the RSS feed from a blog and create emails automatically. They can also be styled and branded. It’s fairly simple and it takes some testing, but it is possible.
Doreen
I believe I have inadvertently signed up for two feedburner accounts, but I can only find one. Can you tell me how I can find the other account so I can ditch feedburner and transfer my subscribers?
WPBeginner Staff
The best way to figure this out is to retrace the steps you took implementing FeedBurner and just undo them.
WPBeginner Staff
Go to Plugins page and see if you can find a plugin installed that has feedburner in the name or description. If you find such a plugin, then deactivate it.
Also check your theme’s header.php file look for a line that contains your feedburner feed URL.
Lastly, check your theme’s functions.php file. Look for a code block with your feedburner feed’s URL in it.
Jacqueline
The only Plugin I see referencing feedburner is WP Subscriber Form. Currently it is deactivated. I’ll be honest and say I have no clue as to how to find my .php files, much less edit them. I’m a serious newbie to this stuff, and I appreciate any help.
Jacqueline
I found this post exactly one day after implementing Feedburner. Ugh! I’m very new to blogging and the technical stuff, i.e., editing files, FTP, CSS and the rest. Can you please help me put everything back in order? I can find no way to redirect my feeds back the way they were two days ago. I would appreciate any help!
WPBeginner Staff
I can understand the issue with sharing your real address. But you also have to give that when you’re registering your domain name.
Unless you bought private registration or WhoIsGuard, then anyone can find out your address.
We’ve seen a lot of bloggers simply put their house address for their MailChimp Email.
I wish I can give you a better solution, but that’s about it. You can use JetPack but again you run into the same restrictions. With FeedBurner you were at the mercy of Google, and now you will be at the mercy of Automattic.
Hangry All The Time
Thank you for the article. Just what I was looking for online.
I am a new blogger and at this point have nothing to sell on my site (no income). While I understand that MailChimp is free to use, I will need to submit a physical mailing address to comply with anti-spam laws. That means that I will need to rent a PO Box which is a cost I don’t want to take on now. Other plugins/services for email subscriptions don’t ask for this information, but I realize they have their own limitations.
Any advice on how to proceed?
Heather Solos
Transparency, I work for FeedBlitz.
Native RSS Feeds do work well in most new readers, that said, services like ours have additional features, like the ability to measure the RSS audience and the ability to ad advertising to the RSS feed, creating an additional source of passive revenue.
We also make it easy to your own static ads to your RSS feeds.
We also have live support during business hours.
I would be happy to answer any questions you may have about the service.
just passing by
Feed Demon. ‘nuff said
WPBeginner Staff
You don’t need to add any code to your RSS feeds. The default WordPress feeds work out of the box. However, if you feel that you need to add something to your RSS feeds, then there are plugins that will let you do that. For example, WordPress SEO will let you add content that will appear below each post in your RSS feed.
As we mentioned in the article, you will not be deleting your Feedburner Feed. So you will not loose those subscribers and they will continue to receive updates from your site.
Heather Solos
To add to this, do not delete your FeedBurner feed as that allows someone else to step in and claim your extension. Your subs that didn’t move their subscription likely won’t notice that the feed has gone quiet, until one day someone steps into your old extension with something exciting like adult content or pill shilling. I’ve seen it happen many times.
Doreen
This is a helpful and timely post, as I’ve been thinking about moving away from Feedburner for quite some time. The main thing holding me back is Feedburner has been showing my number of subscribers as 1 for quite some time (and yes, I’ve been following the steps you outlined) and I know this is not the case. Getting help from them is next to impossible, so I’m not sure how I can rectify this. Any advice?