Articles tagged with “feeds”
- Provide a Link for Visitors to Verify Your Feedburner Subscriber Count
- Recently, I received a bizarre email accusing me of calling someone out on their fake Feedburner subscriber count. Apparently, some desperate blogger had been claiming to have something like 30,000 Feedburner subscribers when in reality they only had around 700. From what I could tell, the fraudulent site was displaying a counterfeit Feedburner subscriber-count badge using some fancy CSS image-replacement or something. Whatever. I really could ...
- 3 Ways to Exclude Content from WordPress Feeds
- This may surprise you, but I post quite a bit of content that never appears in the site’s main feed. It is my impression that a vast majority of subscribers are interested in web/graphic-design and development-related topics, and are really much less interested (if at all) in the miscellaneous odds and ends that wind up in the ever-expanding Perishable ...
- Consolidate and Localize Your WordPress Feeds
- Recently, I found occasion to consolidate and localize my WordPress feeds. A couple of years ago, shortly after I first began using Feedburner to deliver and monitor my site’s feeds, I began listing my Feedburner-assigned feed URL in addition to my localized WordPress feed URL. As time went ...
- Redirect WordPress Feeds to Feedburner via htaccess (Redux)
- In a previous article, I explain how to redirect your WordPress feeds to Feedburner. Redirecting your WordPress feeds to Feedburner enables you to take advantage of their many freely provided, highly useful tracking and statistical services. Although there are a few important things to ...
- An Easy Introduction to Web Feeds
- This article will help beginners understand a few “feed” essentials: what they are, how they work, and how to use them..
So you are a little new to the Web. As you surf around, you keep noticing these little orange squares and multicolored boxes placed next to phrases such as these:
Subscribe via ...
- What is My WordPress Feed URL?
- For future reference, this article covers each of the many ways to access your WordPress-generated feeds. Several different URL formats are available for the various types of WordPress feeds — posts, comments, and categories — for both permalink and default URL structures. For each example, replace “http://domain.tld/” with the URL of your blog. Note: even though your blog’s main feed is ...
- Error-Free Feed-Validation Links for Feedburner-Redirected Feeds
- Just a quick tip on how to create error-free links to feed validation services for feeds that are redirected through Feedburner. For example, let’s say our site’s main feed is originally located at:
http://domain.tld/feed/
If we wanted to provide our visitors with a link that would enable them to automatically validate our feed using a free service such as feedvalidator.org 1, we would create the link as follows:
Validate our Feed
..which would do the ...
- Laser-Focused Feeds and Smarter Feed Management
- My current adventure into the fascinating realms of site redesign and optimization has yielded several chunks of fruit related to managing and delivering feed content. One of my primary concerns regarding the overhaul of Perishable Press is streamlined content delivery and rights management. An important area of convergence for these two factors involves the management and ...
- Serve Yourself: Why Feedburner Needs a Feed Fix
- If you are using Feedburner to deliver your feeds, chances are high that most — if not all — of your loyal readers have subscribed to the Feedburner-specific version of your feed’s URL. This is not a good idea for a couple of important reasons:
Complete content-delivery failure if/when the Feedburner service goes down
Cohesive branding strategy impossible because visitors see ...
- Perishable Press Now Featured on Planet WordPress
- Today I am happy to announce that Perishable Press has been deemed worthy of citizenship on Planet WordPress! Planet WordPress is an incredible WordPress resource, bringing together some of the Web’s finest WordPress contributors, plugin developers, and theme designers. The ...
- How to Add Meta Noindex to Your Feeds
- Want to make sure that your feeds are not indexed by Google and other compliant search engines? Add the following code to the channel element of your XML-based (RSS, etc.) feeds:
Here is an example of how I use this tag for Perishable Press feeds (vertical spacing added for emphasis):
Perishable Press
http://perishablepress.com/press
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- New Widgetized Version of AddMySite Released!
- It must be national “update-your-WordPress-plugins” month around here or something. First a completely renovated version of Category LiveBookmarks Plus, then a WP-2.3-compatible facelift for BlogStats PCC, and now a completely widgetized & automated version of the popular ...
- New Version of Category LiveBookmarks Plus for WordPress 2.3
- CLB+ As many WordPress users now realize, there have been many fundamental changes in the new version of WordPress. The latest version of WordPress — 2.3 — features a considerably revamped database structure, including a complete reorganization and redistribution of the wp_categories table. Unfortunately, such database alterations have rendered inoperable many popular plugins, proving quite unfortunate not only for millions of WordPress users, but also for those of us who ...
- Five-Step Feed-Portfolio Makeover
- Recently, I found myself drowning in an ocean of RSS feeds. Even after switching to Google Reader, which definitely speeds up the process of plowing through posts, I was wasting too much time consuming subscribed content. Thus, in an effort to find balance between saving time and staying current, I executed the following five-step feed portfolio makeover:
Drop lame feeds. Previously, I had subscribed to a number of feeds simply because they were recommended or mentioned in ...
- Allow Google Reader to Access Hotlink-Protected Images
- [ google, reader, mobile, htaccess, allow, access, hotlink, protection, images, rewrite ]
In our previous article, we explain the process of allowing Feedburner to access your hotlink-protected images. The article details the entire process, which covers the basics of hotlink protection and involves adding several lines of code to your htaccess file. In this article, we skip the detailed explanations and ...
- Allow Feedburner Access to Hotlink-Protected Images
- [ Keywords: feedburner, htaccess, allow, access, hotlink, protection, feed, images, rewrite ]
Recently, we installed and configured the excellent WordPress Feedburner plugin by the venerable Steve Smith 1. The plugin basically redirects our various WordPress-powered content feeds to Feedburner, which then delivers them to subscribers. This method enables us to take advantage of Feedburner’s excellent statistical tools. Further, all of the action ...
- Feed your Image via Atom or RSS
- This quick tutorial explains how to add images to both Atom and RSS feeds. Although both formats allow for image-inclusion, feed-reader support for image-display is currently quite limited. Hopefully, that will change in the near future..
Images for Atom Feeds
Images included within Atom feeds must have a ratio of either 1:1 or 2:1. There are no other restrictions as to file type or size. Use the XML element for URL’s targeting 1:1 images. Otherwise, use the ...
- Feed Tester
- Ignore this post..
[Edit] Note to WP 2.0.5 users: Everything was working fine on this site before upgrading to WP 2.0.5. After upgrading, apparently, our feeds stopped validating* and the BDP RSS Aggregator plugin refused to update our own feeds. After several hours investigating the situation, we determined that the Live Comment Preview plugin was interfering with our feeds validating, while the upgraded WordPress (2.0.5) was responsible for problems with the BDP plugin.
Here is a copy of ...
- Add RSS Feed Link Icons to WordPress Category Listings
- This brief tutorial explains two methods for adding RSS feed link icons to category listings. Let’s say that you have a list of category links, where each link targets a specific category view. Now let’s say that, next to each category link, you would like to provide a icon that links to that particular category’s syndicated feed. So, rather than cluttering up your page with two sets of category links -- one for category views and another ...
- AddMySite Plugin for WordPress
- Compatible with WordPress 2.3!
The AddMySite (AMS) plugin for WordPress makes it easy for your visitors to add your site to all of their favorite social-bookmarking services. With a few clicks, users may easily bookmark or add your site to any number of popular social bookmarking services, which are concisely presented via drop-down menu or as a customizable list. One file. Simple installation. Easy to use. Clean output and XHTML strict.
New! — ...
- New Version of Category LiveBookmarks Available
- Thanks to some valuable feedback, several inconsistencies were discovered in our Category LiveBookmarks plugin for WordPress. If you are using CLB+ version 1.1.1, check carefully your feed links -- you may discover that your feed links are being written twice in both the document head and (if applicable) the document body. Further, it was requested that the plugin produce a complete set of links for various WP page views, such as category views and archive views, rather ...
- A Nice Collection of Feed Icons
- Here is a nice collection of feed icons. All are in PNG format, and all have transparent backgrounds (Although they may not appear as transparent if you are viewing via Internet Explorer). Download them individually or as a zipped set. In addition to the icons displayed below, the zipped set also includes two 500x500-pixel feed icons, one in standard orange and the other in greyscale. Please save these to your server ...
- Category LiveBookmarks Plus
- Compatible with WordPress 2.3!
CLB+ New version of Category LiveBookmarks Plus now available! CLB+ 2.3.0b enables WordPress 2.3+ users to configure and customize the ultimate set of autodetection feeds, category feeds, category links, and feed links. Features include completely rewritten, optimized code, optional category post counts, and custom RSS-icon links for all category and/or feed links. Overall, the new version is faster and more flexible than ever!
Category LiveBookmarks Plus is ...
- Category LiveBookmarks Plugin
- UPDATE: New version of Category LiveBookmarks now available! →
Already familiar with Firefox’s Live Bookmarks and WordPress RSS feeds? Well then skip the intro and jump to the good stuff »
Enthusiastic Firefox users enjoy the luxury of Live Bookmarks, a feature of Firefox that automatically discovers and updates RSS feeds. Web pages with available feeds are indicated ...