Feedburner version of Blog Feeds?
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Is there any way to change the ‘RSS Feed’ links at the bottom of my blog pages… to my new Feedburner version of those ‘RSS Feed’ links…?
The ones that say: ‘Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS).’
…or to just remove them from the bottom of the page altogether?
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Link please. There’s a couple of different solutions but without seeing it, all we can do is guess.
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unfortunately, no. kubrick (among other themes) has those links hard-coded. some themes don’t, but i don’t know which ones those are.
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Actually you can hide them with teh CSS upgrade. The poster may also be looking at the bottom of teh sidebar. That’s way I was asking for a link. :)
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Who is him?
A link to my blog page?
It is here: http://brucewagner.wordpress.com
The poster has a name. It is Bruce. I am here.
I am talking about the bottom of the main page area – not the bottom of the sidebar.
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@brucewagner
We do not encourage the use of names on the forum. Most folks use handles.
I simply wanted sunburntkamel to know that you have been given the link to the theme reviews and can consult it and make your own decision about which theme suits you purpose. I also gave you the links to information on css upgrading and for wordpress.org as did drmike.
I’m sure you’ll agree that it would make no sense for three people to type the same stuff over and over again to you. That would be a waste of time and energy. -
hi bruce!
yeah, those are the links i meant. they can’t be hidden in CSS without hiding the entire footer.
the theme review is here:
http://engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/wordpress-theme-reviews/although i couldn’t find specific mention of feed links
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Things I’m NOT interested in:
- changing themes
- downloading and hosting blog software on my own server
- css upgrading (for a fee)
(especially since sun points out that the link cannot be hidden in css without hiding the entire footer anyway)
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Hi Bruce,
Thanks for getting back to the forum. You have clearly expressed that you are not interested in# changing themes
# downloading and hosting blog software on my own server
# css upgrading (for a fee)
I’m sorry to say that if removing the feeds Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) from the bottom of the Kubrick theme altogether is your goal then, this leaves only hiring a web host and having him or her download the same theme Kubrick from wordpress.org and then removing them as they are hardcoded.
Because we all work here on wordpress.com on a shared multi-user wp MU blogging platform removing these feeds altogether from your blog footer would result in removing them altogether from every other wordpress.com blog with the same theme.
However, if you would be satisfied with adding a feedburner button to your sidebar at the very top then here’s an example of a blog where the blogger has done this http://engtech.wordpress.com/ -
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Ok.
That’s all I wanted to know.
I will have to settle for posting a Feedburner RSS button at the top and bottom of the sidebar…
By the way, I like the engtech blog. Thanks, time… I subscribed to it myself…
Now, I’m gonna have to find get that MyBlogLog widget he has… That is very cool too!
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mark said:
The goal is to have Feedburner-only feed links.
That cannot be done.…in kubrick
you’ll always have your wordpress.com feed linked in the header (the link that puts the orange icon in the address bar). but there’s no reason that the unformatted feed should be inflicted on users with old browsers. i thought the goal here was to normalize themes? the RSS links shouldn’t be in the footer.
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Yeah, but it’s hardcoded into Kubrick.
If you removed the RSS link you’d have users complaining it was gone.
Such is the problem with themes.
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Most themes also put the links in the head portion of any output. I believe that’s what the browsers and feed readers pick up on.
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yes, that’s what i meant about the wordpress.com feed being being linked in the header. -
Bruce, work with me: I’m slow. Why do you want to remove the brandless RSS feed to your blog and make it only the Feedburner version? My understanding (limited as it may be) of WordPress is that it allows Feedburner as well as any number of other RSS readers. Are you funnelling your readers to this to ramp your Feedburner hits? I’d think that would be counterproductive, given what I’ve seen of my own feed reader spreads. I’m intrigued: Why?
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feedburner isn’t an RSS reader.
feedburner formats your RSS feed (so it doesn’t look like code if someone clicks on it, and it provides links to subscribe in common rss readers).
they also allow you to mux in your del.icio.us links and flickr photos, as well as providing links at the bottom of your feed to show how many comments an article has, or to add an article to social bookmarking services.
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Using Feedburner feeds rather than regular feeds is pretty sweet because you can see really cool subscriber stats, add dynamic links to bottom that show the number of comments/diggs/delicioussaves/etc, track things like how many subscribers clicked on links, etc.
It also provides a nice, unified way of show professional metrics for your blog — kind of like how you wanted to show off your technorati rank when trying to get professional blogger jobs…
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Granted that the features are attractive but do we really want to embed a monopoly to Feedburner in our blog templates?
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