2010 yılında FeedBurner’ın nasıl kurulacağına dair popüler adım adım kılavuzumuzu yazdık. Bir yıldan biraz daha uzun bir süre önce, tüm sitelerimiz için FeedBurner kullanmayı bırakmaya karar verdik. O zamandan beri çeşitli FeedBurner hataları, sorunları vb. hakkında yüzlerce soru aldık. Bu makalede, FeedBurner’ı kullanmaktan neden kaçınmanız gerektiği hakkında konuşacağız. Eğer zaten kullanıyorsanız, FeedBurner’ı kullanmayı neden bırakmanız gerektiğini ve güvenilir FeedBurner alternatiflerine nasıl geçebileceğinizi göstereceğiz.
FeedBurner, birkaç yıl önce birçok blog yazarının güvendiği Google’ın RSS besleme yönetim hizmetidir(RSS nedir?). Google henüz kapatmamış olsa da, bir süredir Google’ın kapatacağı söyleniyordu.
FeedBurner, hatırlayabildiğimiz kadarıyla herhangi bir özellik veya güncelleme görmedi. FeedBurner API kapatıldı. Ayrıca Adsense for Feeds özelliğini de kullanımdan kaldırdılar. Tüm bunlar 2012 yılında oldu.
Peki neden iki yıl sonra şimdi bu konu hakkında yazıyoruz?
Çünkü hala kullanıcılardan FeedBurner ile ilgili e-postalar alıyoruz. Geçtiğimiz 30 gün içinde, eski FeedBurner kurulum kılavuzumuz arama motoru trafiğinden 3500’den fazla tekil ziyaretçi aldı. FeedBurner’ın desteği olmadığı için düzinelerce hata raporu ve destek talebi aldık.
İlgili tüm kullanıcıları daha güncel bir makaleye yönlendirmek istiyoruz.
FeedBurner Alternatifleri
Abone analizleri ve Adsense ile para kazanmanın yanı sıra FeedBurner blog yazarlarının sevdiği iki ana özellik sunuyordu.
- FeedBurner, blog yazarlarına RSS beslemelerini görüntülemek için daha iyi bir yol sunmanın yanı sıra kullanıcılara paylaşım seçenekleri de sundu.
- FeedBurner, kullanıcıların blogunuza E-posta yoluyla abone olmaları için ücretsiz ve kolay bir yol sundu.
FeedBurner’ı nasıl daha iyi alternatiflerle değiştirdiğimize bir göz atalım.
WPBeginner’da, varsayılan WordPress beslemelerini kullanıyoruz ve bunları kendi başımıza yönetiyoruz. Varsayılan WordPress beslemelerini kullanmak, beslemeniz üzerinde kontrol sahibi olmanızı sağlar. Kullanıcılarımıza varsayılan WordPress işlevselliğine güvenmelerini ve beslemeleri kendi başlarına yönetmelerini öneriyoruz. İşte nedeni:
Paylaşım Seçenekleri ile Güzel Besleme Ekranı
İnsanların içeriğinizi okumak için feed URL’nizi ziyaret etmediğini anlamanız gerekir. Bunun yerine çoğu kişi Feedly, Flipbook, Google’ın Newsstand’i vb. gibi besleme okuyucuları kullanıyor. Bu besleme okuyucular, FeedBurner’ın beş yıl kadar önce yaptığı görevlerin çoğunu zaten gerçekleştiriyor.
FeedBurner’ı daha iyi besleme gösterimi ve sosyal paylaşım için kullanıyorsanız, artık bunu yapmanıza gerek yok. Ancak kullanıcılarınızı sitenize nasıl abone olacakları konusunda kesinlikle eğitebilirsiniz.
E-posta yoluyla blog aboneliği
Birçok kullanıcı hala blog güncellemelerini e-posta yoluyla almayı tercih ediyor, bu nedenle bu işlevi değiştirmeniz çok önemli.
JetPack eklentisi FeedBurner’ın e-posta ile abone olma işlevine en yakın alternatifi sunsa da, kullanıcılarımıza bunu kullanmamalarını şiddetle tavsiye ediyoruz.
Neden mi? Çünkü tıpkı FeedBurner gibi, abonelerinize özel güncellemeler gönderemezsiniz. Abonelerinizi güncellemenin tek yolu herkese açık bir gönderi yapmaktır.
İşleri DOĞRU şekilde yapmaya karar verdiğinize göre, bir e-posta listesi oluşturmaya başlamanızı öneririz.
MailChimp, AWeber gibi profesyonel e-posta pazarlama hizmetleri, size sağlam bir e-posta pazarlama platformunun tüm gücünü sunmanın yanı sıra e-posta yoluyla blog aboneliği sunmanıza olanak tanır. E-postanızı kaç kullanıcının açtığı, kaç kişinin tıkladığı gibi daha iyi analizler elde edersiniz.
Ayrıca daha yüksek teslimat oranı elde edersiniz, bu da daha fazla kullanıcınızın güncellemelerinizi alacağı anlamına gelir. Son olarak, esneklik ve seçeneklere sahip olursunuz.
Örneğin, birden fazla abonelik seçeneği (günlük güncellemeler, haftalık güncellemeler vb.) sunabilirsiniz – günlük ve haftalık bülten oluşturma hakkındaki kılavuzumuza bakın.
Sitemiz için MailChimp kullanıyoruz ve 2000 aboneye kadar ÜCRETSİZ.
Alternatifleri ele aldığımıza göre, şimdi FeedBurner’dan nasıl uzaklaşabileceğinize bir göz atalım.
FeedBurner’dan Uzaklaşmak
FeedBurner’ın e-posta abonelik hizmetini kullanıyorsanız, yapmanız gereken ilk şey e-posta abonelerinizi dışa aktarmaktır. FeedBurner hesabınıza giriş yapın ve feed’inize tıklayın. Bundan sonra ‘Aboneleriniz hakkında daha fazlasını görün’ bağlantısına tıklayın.
Bir sonraki ekranda, E-posta Abonelik Hizmetleri bölümüne gidin ve FeedBurner E-posta Abonelikleri ‘ne tıklayın. Bu, bölümü genişletecek ve e-posta aboneleri listenizi yönetmek için bir bağlantı görebileceksiniz. E-posta abonelerinizi görmek için bağlantıya tıklayın.
FeedBurner şimdi size e-posta abonelerinizin listesini gösterecektir. Listenin üzerinde bir CSV Dışa Aktar bağlantısı göreceksiniz. Basitçe üzerine tıklayın ve listenizi CSV formatında indirecektir. Daha sonra bu dosyayı MailChimp, AWeber, vb. gibi seçtiğiniz bir e-posta pazarlama hizmetine aktarabilirsiniz.
Sitemiz için MailChimp kullandığımızdan, size MailChimp’te içe aktarma işlevinin nasıl çalıştığını göstereceğiz. Diğer sağlayıcıların çoğunda benzer bir süreç vardır.
Yapmanız gereken ilk şey MailChimp kontrol panelinize giriş yapmak ve MailChimp’te yeni bir liste oluşturmaktır.
Yeni bir liste oluşturduktan sonra, FeedBurner’dan indirdiğiniz CSV dosyasını kullanarak e-posta abonelerinizi içe aktarabilirsiniz. MailChimp kontrol panelindeki Listeler menüsüne tıklayarak başlayın ve yeni oluşturduğunuz listeyi seçin. Bu sizi liste yönetimi sayfasına götürecektir. Orada Aboneler ” Aboneleri İçe Aktar seçeneğine tıklamanız gerekir.
Bir sonraki ekranda, ‘CSV veya TXT dosyasından içe aktar’ seçeneğine tıklayın ve ardından FeedBurner’dan indirdiğiniz CSV dosyasını içe aktarın.
Listenizi içe aktardıktan sonra, bir RSS’den E-postaya kampanyası oluşturmanız gerekecektir.
Farklı e-posta pazarlama hizmetlerinin bu işlev için farklı adları olacaktır. MailChimp’te buna RSS’den E-posta kampanyasına diyorlar. AWeber’da buna Yayınlar diyorlar. Google’da “e-posta pazarlama hizmetinizin ve blog RSS’inizin adını” aratın, bunun için bir öğretici bulacaksınız.
Tüm bu ayarları yaptıktan sonra FeedBurner’da E-posta Aboneliklerinizi kapatabilirsiniz, böylece kullanıcılarınız iki e-posta almaz. Bunu FeedBurner’daki Yayınla Sekmesinin altına gidip sol sütundaki E-posta Abonelikleri bağlantısına tıklayarak yapabilirsiniz.
E-posta abonelerinizi yeni bir e-posta hizmetine geçirirken bazı aboneleri kaybedebileceğinizi unutmayın, ancak bunlar muhtemelen istemediğiniz etkin olmayan abonelerdir.
FeedBurner Abonelerini WordPress Akışına Geri Yönlendirme
Blog yazarlarının WordPress besleme URL’lerini FeedBurner sayfalarına yönlendirmeleri yaygındı. Bazıları bunu FD FeedBurner gibi bir eklenti ile yaparken, diğerleri temalarının yerleşik işlevselliğini kullandı ve daha bilgili olanlar ise bir kod parçacığı kullandı.
Varsayılan WordPress akışınızı yeniden yönlendirmek için yukarıdaki yöntemlerden herhangi birini kullanıyorsanız, lütfen bunları kullanmayı hemen bırakın.
Beslemenizi yönlendirip yönlendirmediğinizi kontrol etmenin en iyi yolu RSS beslemenizin URL’sini ziyaret etmektir:
http://www.yoursite.com/feed/
Bu FeedBurner’a yönlendiriyorsa, sorunu çözmemişsiniz demektir.
Ardından, bir blog yazısı yazın ve abonelerinizden URL’yi güncellemelerini isteyin ve muhtemelen diğer okuyucuları kullanarak sitenize nasıl abone olabilecekleri konusunda onları eğitin.
Önemli: FeedBurner beslemenizi SİLMEYİN. FeedBurner beslemelerinizi SİLMENİZİ söyleyen bazı siteler var, bu da sözde abonelerinizi yeniden yönlendirecek, ancak öyle değil. Bu korkunç bir fikir ve abonelerinizi kaybedeceksiniz. Neden mi?
Çünkü feed’inizi sildiğinizde FeedBurner, okuyucularınıza feed’inizin taşındığını bildiren yeni bir gönderi ekleyecektir. Bu, kullanıcınızın besleme okuyucularındaki besleme URL’sini otomatik olarak güncellemez. Kullanıcı 15 gün içinde herhangi bir işlem yapmazsa, o aboneyi sonsuza kadar kaybedersiniz. Ayrıca 30 gün sonra, bir rakip FeedBurner URL’nizi talep edebilir ve beslemelerini güncellemeyen tüm kullanıcılar onun güncellemelerini almaya başlar.
Bir kez daha, FeedBurner beslemelerinizi SİLMEYİN.
Okuyucularınızı URL’lerini güncellemeleri konusunda bilgilendirmek için bir blog yazısı yazmanız yeterlidir. Bunu nasıl yapabilecekleri konusunda onları kaynaklarla eğitin.
Bundan sonra FeedBurner beslemesinin yavaş yavaş ölmesine izin verin.
Bu şekilde, RSS okuyucularındaki besleme URL’nizi güncellemeyenler yeni içerik almaya devam eder, ancak tüm yeni okuyucularınız doğru şekilde abone olur.
Abonelik Formları, Abone Sayfası ve Daha Fazlasını Oluşturun
Artık e-posta listenizi oluşturduğunuza ve WordPress besleme URL’sine geri döndüğünüze göre, FeedBurner URL’sinden tüm bahsedenleri kaldırmak, e-posta kayıt formlarınızı güncellemek vb. gibi sitenizde uygun güncellemeleri yapmalısınız.
Sitenize kayıt formları eklemek için OptinMonster‘ı kullanmanızı öneririz. Kenar çubuğu kayıt formları, yazı sonrası formları, kayan altbilgi çubuğu, slaytlar, ışık kutusu açılır pencereleri vb. gibi etkili kayıt formları oluşturmanıza olanak tanır.
Sitemizde kullanıyoruz ve e-posta listemizi %600 oranında büyütmemize yardımcı oldu.
Daha sonra muhtemelen okuyuculara sitenize nasıl abone olabileceklerini gösteren bir abone sayfası oluşturmak istersiniz.
Varsayılan WordPress akışını kullandığınız için çok fazla esnekliğe ve özelleştirme seçeneğine sahipsiniz.
RSS beslemelerinize küçük resimler ekleyebilir, RSS beslemelerine başka özel içerikler ekleyebilir veya tamamen özel RSS beslemeleri oluşturabilirsiniz.
WordPress’te yerleşik olarak bulunan bir başka güzel özellik de kategoriye özel beslemelerdir. Kullanıcılarınızın kategori RSS beslemesi ile tek tek kategorilere abone olmalarına izin verebilirsiniz. WordPress’te kullanıcıların kategorilere abone olmasına nasıl izin vereceğinize ilişkin makalemizi okuyun.
Bu kılavuzun FeedBurner’ın ölümüyle başa çıkmanın ve daha iyi seçeneklere geçmenin bir yolunu bulmanıza yardımcı olduğunu umuyoruz. FeedBurner’ı kullanmayı bırakmanızı şiddetle tavsiye ederiz.
Bu makaleyi beğendiyseniz, daha fazla WordPress video eğitimi için YouTube Kanalımıza abone olun. Ayrıca bize Twitter ve Google+ üzerinden de katılabilirsiniz.
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Andrew Blackman says
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 says
Feedburner now allows for a permanent redirect when deleting a feed. There’s no longer a 30 day window.
Ankit Dhadwal says
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 says
Hey Ankit,
Please see our guide What is RSS and how to use RSS in WordPress?
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Leslie Myricks says
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 says
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 says
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 says
99% of rss feeds are not read, they exist today only for SEO purposes. You use feedburner because google owns it. Period.
Leslie says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
Please check out our beginner’s guide: What is RSS? How to use RSS in WordPress?
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monique says
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 says
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 says
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 says
Yes, you can use the default WordPress RSS feed through MailChimp’s RSS to email campaign.
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Ron says
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 says
I totally agree. I’m looking to switch from mailchimp before my list starts to grow.
Candice says
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 says
Please take a look at our guide on why you should start building your email list right away.
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Dan Stafford says
What I’m wondering is how to replace Feedburner’s podcast listing support & pingshot services.
ikomrad says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
Of course. FB is sent by google so it is still the best way to deliver email.
Alana says
Thank you for all of the tips! I just switched over to MailChimp and this helped a ton!
andrea says
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 says
You can contact Aweber support. You may have to require all your users to confirm subscription again.
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Ganesh says
Nice post thanks for sharing feed burner information .
Kady says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
No sure I agree. fads come and go but email list is still king in iM.
Kimm Boes says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
Most valuable post. Thanks for alerting me before fall into the trap of Feedburner.
Sonia says
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 says
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 says
For me Feedburner remain useful for capturing traffic to my blog
Lukas Brandt says
What about Feedpress.it?
Nancy Ward says
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 says
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 says
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 says
MailChimp has a feature called RSS to Email.
Kennis Wong says
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 says
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 says
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 says
The best way to figure this out is to retrace the steps you took implementing FeedBurner and just undo them.
WPBeginner Staff says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
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 says
Feed Demon. ’nuff said
WPBeginner Staff says
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 says
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 says
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?