trouble adding feedburner “subscribe to this blog” widget
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okay, I searched, read, thought I did everything right but….what I want is a way for visitors to “subscribe” to my blog, i.e. they get an email when there’s a new post. I’ve seen some wordpress blogs with such a thing, like
www.financeisfun.wordpress.com
I went to feedburner, signed up, copied their widget code into a text widget, and mine just says “Enter your email address:Delivered by FeedBurner” with no place for a user to put the email address. Any help? -
I’ve done it several times and used this procedure from the FAQ’s: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/how-can-i-offer-email-updates/
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I did see that FAQ in this closed thread
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=2415&replies=24, and I thought I followed the simple instructions, but the widget code did not creat a place for subscribers to eneter their email addresses or a link to a place to subscribe. The only link it created is the “powered by feedburner” link, which leads to the feedburner homepage. -
Yes, I believe the readers will have to go to the Feedburner page to put that in. WordPress.com doesn’t allow forms and such.
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/nod to raincoaster
That is correct. Forms are not allowed on wordpress so the link will take them to a form to enter their email address at feedburner. -
I could have worded the last part of that better. The link will take them to feedburner where they will enter their email address.
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I think I fixed it (I must’ve copied the wrong code before). I now have the “click here” link (reworded in my own pithy prose) which takes them to a page where they enter their email address. So far, so good; but I subscribed myself and made a new test post, so I can see what the email, the feed and so on looks like, but so far, no contact……
http://feeds.feedburner.com/djeddieo -
There will most likely be a delay from the time you publish a post until Feedburner’s service sends out the notification email because they aren’t constantly monitoring feeds. You’ll need to contact Feedburner.
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thanks dew,
I did check the feedburner forums, where I was told that the email goes out at a specific time, so if I had posted after that time, I might be waiting close to a full day for the email. That said, I never got the email after my first “post-feedburner” post, but i did get one after the second. Just FYI to you future topic searchers out there.
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