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Update The Feed Links In Your Header Section…

Posted By: BioTecK on Tuesday 21 October 2008 with 6 Comments

When setting up a new wordpress blog, most people pay more attention to the design of there blog; Editing the CSS file, thinking about how to arrange the sidebar, placing adsense codes on the blog, signing for a Feedburner account and placing the Feedcount somewhere in the sidebar along with a RSS icon.
However people seem to forget to update the feed links in the header section of the blog. The feed link in the header section is used by the autodiscovery feature on most browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer.

So when you haven’t updated the feed links in your header people will end up subscribing to different feeds and your subscriber stats might become incorrect. To make sure that the feed link in the header is also pointing to your Feedburner feed you need to remove the last 2 of the 3 “alternate” links that you will find in the header.php file of your theme. Then simply update the URL of the first feed link by removing the WordPress PHP code and inserting your Feedburner URL instead. Watch the video for more details.


Easy right? So have you updated the feed link in your header section? :wink:

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  • Dunn said:
    21 October 2008 at 07:32

    Thank you for the tips. I didn’t aware about this until I read this post.

    Dunn´s last blog post..Honda WOW

  • shaxx said:
    21 October 2008 at 07:32

    In my case I purposely leave that as it is and let the auto discovery discover my original feed and I use feedburner for those who want to subscribe… So in case one goes down, I would have the other one to fall back to… Might not make sense to others but it does to me… haha

    shaxx´s last blog post..What’s Hot? 20-10-2008

  • inetbuzz - thefachia said:
    21 October 2008 at 08:48

    nice info.. it is a small part we always don’t aware of.. thanks 4 the info

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  • Lyndi said:
    21 October 2008 at 17:40

    I knew this but I am ashamed to admit that I have let this slip since my last theme change. Thanks for the advice. This is something that all WP users should be reminded of. Thanks.

    Lyndi´s last blog post..Comment changes in WordPress 2.7

  • vev from teak furniture said:
    22 October 2008 at 01:10

    Thanks for sharing good info. I either never knew about this until now.

  • BioTecK (author) said:
    23 October 2008 at 19:29

    Your welcome Dunn. I’m glad it was a help to you!

    Lol.. It’s fine with me Shaxx, as long as it makes sense to you! :wink:

    Jep, you’re right InetBuzz. It’s the smal things which we tent to forget! :razz:

    Well, I knew about this, but even I was forgotten about this Lyndi. :wink:

    Your welcome Vev From Teak Furniture! :mrgreen: