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• 1    Blog » Blog Archive » Adding a RSS Feed From Feedburner To Your Blog // Feb 1, 2008 at 4:29 am

  […] Sue Waters wrote an interesting post today on Adding a RSS Feed From Feedburner To Your BlogHere’s a quick excerptMost blogs already have RSS feed which is detected automatically by Feed Readers like Google Reader, Bloglines, NetVibes when the blog URL is added to the reader. The trouble is not all Feed Readers can automatically detect the RSS feed … […]

• 2    Rafa Ribas // Feb 1, 2008 at 5:58 am

  Hi Sue, thanks again for a really informative post!
  So far I have just used the standard RSS feeds for blogs, not really seeing the point of Feedburner, but I can see it has many advantages for the blogger - rather than for the readers.
  Something I am wondering - is it possible to create RSS feeds for separate categories in a blog? Many of my posts so far relate to issues I am discussing with one year group in particular, and it might be interesting for them to subscribe to just that section. Am I asking too much here?

• 3    Larry Ferlazzo // Feb 1, 2008 at 9:07 am

  Sue,

  After I click “Next” on Feedburner, I get this:

  Identify Feed Source
  The feed URL you entered is:

  http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

  FeedBurner discovered more than one feed at that address. Please select one to use as your source:

  RSS 2.0: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/feed/
  RSS .92: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/feed/rss/
  Atom 0.3: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/feed/atom/

  Which one do I click on?

  Larry

• 4    Sue Waters // Feb 1, 2008 at 11:02 am

  Hi Rafa - I actually use the feedburner mainly because I see the advantage to the reader as many expect to see an RSS icon and you need to make it obvious how to subscribe. Nope you aren’t asking too much to have feed for categories. What you need to do is put the word feed at the end of the URL for the category. For example - if I want to burn a feed for my category blogging - this is the URL http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/category/blogging/ which I change to http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/category/blogging/feed . I then add this URL to Burn a Feed Right This Instant box at Feedburner. Now follow the prompts and you should have a feed specifically for that category.

  Good question Larry - as I already had burnt feeds for both my blogs I wasn’t sure what it would say on this screen. The one that you need to use as your source is RSS 2.0.

• 5    Danielle Blogging for Balance // Feb 3, 2008 at 9:21 am

  What a great post!!! I wish you had been around two years ago when I was struggling to learn all this

• 6    Danielle Blogging for Balance // Feb 3, 2008 at 9:23 am

  What a great post!! I wish you had been around two years ago when I was squinting in the wee hours of the morning trying to figure all this stuff out. Keep up the good work!!!

• 7    Susan // Feb 4, 2008 at 7:22 am

  This is great! I have searched everywhere for an explanation on how to do this, this is the most in depth info I have found. I am a very new blogger and I am now going to try this using your steps. I am going to keep this handy while I do this. Keep your fingers crossed that this works for me!

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• 9    Sue Waters // Feb 6, 2008 at 8:37 pm

  Thanks Danielle - trouble I face is that read of this blog are composed of both new and experienced people. My thoughts are the new people have the great need, and the experienced people are often looking for resources to help those starting out — so am tackling the needs of the inexperienced first. However I have lots of tips for experienced bloggers on my Mobile Technology in TAFE blog.

  Hi Susan - thanks for letting me know the information has been presented in a form that is helpful. I hope that it works - my fingers are crossed for you.

• 10    tasteach // Feb 8, 2008 at 1:28 am

  Hi Sue, Just added a RSS using feedburner but in the theme I am using, the words Subscribe in a reader go over two lines. How can I put the words under the picture instead of next to it? What HTML code do I need to use in my widget box?

• 11    Sue Waters // Feb 8, 2008 at 5:28 pm

  Hi Sue (Tasteach) - I’m glad the email I sent you helped you change the HTML code so your Subscribe in a Reader is in the line below. I’m also glad that I managed to get people to drop past your blog to provide their tips and thoughts on blogging with students.

• 12    tasteach // Feb 8, 2008 at 8:02 pm

  Yes, many thanks to you Sue and the other readers of the edublogger. I come in here everyday and checkout comments from other readers and visit their blogs to see what they are doing. I am going to have to include some more in my blogroll especially teachers with class blogs.

• 13    Al Upton // Feb 29, 2008 at 10:24 pm

  Thanks again Sue.
  I automatically have two feeds with the same icon at the bottom of my sidebar - Full and Comments. IE I didn’t put them there.
  I’ve not seen it on many blogs and think it is more likely the Regulus theme I always use. I have a question that may be the opposite of Sue’s (tasteach) … I would like the smaller icon followed (on the same line) by the words ‘Subscribe in a Reader’ If anyone can help that would be wonderful.
  I’m re- trialling the benefits of FeedBurner for student learning in a class blog.
  Cheers, Al

   Subscribe in a reader

• 14    Al Upton // Feb 29, 2008 at 11:57 pm

  OK thanks Sue I worked it out - for small icon and words on same line …

  after the smaller icon code … 16×16.png”
  delete the formatting code (alt=”" style=”vertical-align:middle;border:0″/>  and the first word in the code eg
  “> Subscribe in a reader

  Cheers, Al

• 15    Al Upton // Mar 1, 2008 at 12:11 am

  You might need to edit my last comment so it doesn’t try to convert to a link … a little ‘ & nbsp; < a’ in the middle (without any spaces) and the ‘ ‘ at the end (without any spaces) tripped me up - … and I was feeling so proud lol
  Thanks Al
  Then feel free to delete this one, it makes even less sense

• 16    Sue Waters // Mar 1, 2008 at 12:45 am

  Hi Al - looks like you’ve been busy today . Definitely agree the RSS icons for Full and Comment feeds are probably part of your theme. If you are an Edublogs Supporter I would recommend you consider also sending your site feed through Feedburner. Will fix up your comments when I work out which is correct

• 17    anne marie // May 8, 2008 at 4:54 pm

  Hi Sue-
  Thanks for the tips– I do believe I have succeeded this time adding a RSS FEed and a feedburner?!?! I do have another question about RSS feeds- or at least I think it has to do with feeds? On my dashboard under Latest Activity is something called Incoming Links– I am not sure what that means- is that appearing because of my RSS Feed? I also seem to be receiving comments from these links that are generic and to e honest do not make much sense to me.
  Thanks for all of your wonderfully helpful tips!
  anne marie

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