Feedburner FeedSmith plugin setup

[jmk909er]

I have installed this plugin on my wordpress site and have submitted my site feed to Google feedburner.

Isn't the plugin suppose to change my RSS feed url to the new google feedburner url?

In this new plugin settings do I paste in my site feed url or the new feedburner url?

Can't find much info to setup/configure this plugin

Thanks.

 

[djbaxter]

I've never used it and I doubt you need it.

1. It should NOT change your regular feed URL because some readers (like me) will prefer to read it from the primary RSS feed.

2. Although I have a feedburner version, it was set in the feedburner account and doesn't require any additional setup from me other than auto-pinging feedburner when there's a new post.

 

[jmk909er]

Yeah I am beginning to wonder if this plugin is doing anything. I made a feedburner account and I found that in my theme I have a place to enter the feedburner url and now when you hover over my rss feed icon I see that it shows the feedburner url. so what is the plugin doing-I don't know.

Does anyone know what the benefit of this plugin is other than just make your RSS feed go to feedburner? Am I missing something here?

 

[djbaxter]

All it does is send all feeds through feedburner. As far as I'm concerned, that creates a reliance on another site for your site and I personally avoid that as much as possible. If my site goes down, I can do something about it; if another site goes down I just have to wait. Can't happen you say? Look at the cloud computing networks that crashed a few months ago - ANY site can go down.

The single advantage I can see to feedburner is that it's easier to put AdSense ads in the feeds. But there are WordPress plugins to do even that.