help setting up feedburner
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I want to create feeds for my blog and read that feedburner is good to use for wordpress blogs
I downloaded the plugin from the instructions here http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/wordpress_quickstart
And the first step is completely confusing!
Copy the plugin file, FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php into your default WordPress plugin directory, wp-content/plugins/ . ????
I’m no tech expert.. but i doubt they where written for one.. i find those instructions really confusing.
Any help in setting up a feed for my blog is appreciated.
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We don’t use plugins here. This is wordpress.com. For self-hosted blogs, you need to be at wordpress.org//support.
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Ok. Can someone help me understand how to set up a feed for my site?
I’ve searched the forums and tried to figure it out, but there is nothing within my dashboard which i can see that lets me set up a feed.Thanks.
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You are in the wrong forum. We are unable to use the Feedburner plug in; we use html. You need to be at http://wordpress.org/support or the forums at Feedburner.
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Ok, sorry i’m just a bit confused. I’ve set up my blog through wordpress.com, does this mean i can’t set up feeds at all?? Or it just means i’m un-able to get assistance with how to set up my feed through workpress.com forum?
I’m confused as well because there are other posts on this forum asking help on how to set up feedburner within their wordpress account, and they are getting responses with how to do this, but you mentioned i’m un-able to use feedburner, or anyother feed program, is this right?
I just want to set up a feed on my blog, i don’t understand why i can’t do this simply ;/
Thanks.
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The homepage we get when we click the name “shnikkidrum” beside your picture takes us to a site, that is not a part of WordPress.com.
The site you link to via your name “shnikkidrum” belongs in the .org company. Not here at .com. This is WordPress.com and it seems that your blog belongs to WordPress.org:
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You see: linking a commercial site to your name like you do would otherwise be a violation of WordPress.com ToS. But not if you have a self-hosted blog at the .org company.
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If you also have a WordPress.com blog without ads or sales material you should link that blog to your name or give us the url to your blog when you start a thread.
In case you have a word.Press.com blog you go to Presentation -> Widgets, where you will find ready made RSS feed widgets. Drag one of them to the sidebar and click “Save Changes”.
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If your blog is at wordpress.com you don’t have to set up a feed. It already exists. The url would be http://yoururl.wordpress.com/feed and you would use that to “burn” a Feedburner feed.
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Thanks for the feedback. I’m pretty sure i set up my blog through wordpress.com. Why is there such a difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org? Aren’t they the same business?
Regardless, my blog is http://www.nikkisblogspot.com i don’t use the shnikkidrum.wordpress domain as a blog, it’s just the automatic one i recieved while i was signing up.
So i came to wordpress.com and set up my blog, yet universalgeni says it seems to be .org .. hmm.. If it is .org, then should my control pannel, dashboard etc be .org and not wordpress.com?
ellaella, i visited the link you provided for the feed, and placed my username ‘shnikkidrum’ in the ‘yoururl’ section, and the site redirected me to my initial page when signing into my wordpress blog account. Does this mean thats my feed link? And to set this up to i then go to widgits, select RSS 1 then enter than url address into the ‘feed url’ section?
If my site is hosted through wordpress.com, do you know if it’s easy and fast to convert my account over to wordpress.org?
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A sticky at the top of this forum explains the differences between wordpress.com and wordpress.org.
The site you linked to your username is not a wordpress.com blog, hence some confusion. If you would link your .com blog to your name it will be helpful in future.
Also please read:
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/feeds-stats-readers-and-more/To burn a FB feed, enter your url or feed url in the appropriate box on the opening screen at FB and it will lead you through the process.
Moving to a self-hosted .org blog isn’t difficult but it’s not free either. If you must have plugins, though, it’s the only way.
HTH
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Please help. I have successfully feed my site but I can’t activate it. my url is http://dorisday.wordpress.com. thank you
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Nikki, you indeed have a wordpress.com blog, that is to say that you cannot install plugins. What exactly would you like to do with feedburner? Most of the features can be used also on wordpress.com blogs, but you’ll have to be more specific.
dorisday, first of all, please don’t hijack threads, but post your question in a new thread. Second, specify your question: I don’t understand what you mean with “activate”?
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Ok, well it’s good i can actually create a feed with my wordpress.com account. However i would like to do some banner advertising on my blog for my products, which universalgeni mentioned is not allowed using wordpress.com.. so i think i’ll change over to wordpress.org. I went to wordpress.org, and i presume i need to download this http://wordpress.org/download/ ? Which i did, and i can’t view anything because i’m unable to view php files on my computer. Regardless, i still wouldn’t know what i would do with all that stuff anyway. I wish it would just be a simple process of e-mailing wordpress and saying ‘please swap my blog over to wordpress.org’, heh, nothings simple right…
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Yes, it is. Reading the FAQs and search forums would ALWAYS the best way. You can email and have that blog installed for free. That information is available in our forums as well as in the .org forums:
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nikki, before you start the wordpress.com adventure you should definitely contact support and explain what kind of advertising you plan to do and whether it would comply the ToS – if it’s only a banner with a link to another site of yours or a book you wrote nobody will have anything against it (but none of us forum users can say). The link: http://wordpress.com/contact-support/
What does this have to do with feedburner?
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