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Announcing a Feedburner Wordpress Widget

UPDATE(02/19/2007):
The plugin has now been updated to version 2.2. This change incorporates some changes sent from Ying-Chieh Liao. There are two changes to the plugin.

The first change is that the user only needs to input their feedburner id, not the whole URL. So, if you update, you may have to re-enter this information. So, instead of putting in “http://feeds.feedburner.com/jeremysbraindump”, you only have to put in “jeremysbraindump”.

The second change add a little tiny text link for the feed. You could use this instead of one of the chicklets for example.

As always, if you have any feedback, let me know.
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UPDATE (08/16/2006):
The plugin has now been updated to version 2.1. This change incorporates Diona’s changes of adding a li and closing /li to each line. This should be purely cosmetic and not change any funtionality. Please let me know if it does.
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UPDATE (05/17/2006):
The plugin has now been updated to version 2.0. 2.0 gives you the ability to select which chicklets you want to display from Feedburners list. This is configurable through the normal widget configuration under Presentation. It has been tested with multiple themes. Everything seems to work, as far as I can tell. However, I do not have accounts with all of the syndication sites, so I do not know for sure, if they work. One site that seems to have trouble is Newsgator. However, the code looks just like Feedburner’s code. So, I think this is either their problem or C|Net’s problem.


… the ability to select which chicklets …

I also changed the default title to be: Subscribe through Feedburner. This is also used as text when you hover over a chicklet.
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UPDATE(05/15/2006):
The plugin has now been updated to version 1.1. 1.1 follow’s Andy’s comment and intercepts the normal feed location in the header of the page. It redirects these feeds to Feedburner. However, it does not do anything with your original feeds, they are still there. But, if a syndication program automatically scans your blog page, it will detect the Feedburner feed and use that.

Because of this, I would recommend setting up Feedburner before you activate my plugin. That way, when Feedburner scans your blog for the feed, it actually finds something. Otherwise, you have to know the location of your feed, such as http://blog.blog.com/feed?=rss.

Anticpated features of 2.0 still include using chicklets from all blog services that Feedburner hooks into.
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This is the initial version of my Feedburner widget for WordPress. This allows you put Feedburner subscription links into your WordPress sidebar and arrange it with the rest of your widgets.

The initial 1.0 version just allows for the large icon to be displayed. Also, the title “Subscribe with Feedburner” is hardcoded.

To install, just download the plugin from here. Uncompress it and place it in your wordpress/wp-content/plugins/widgets directory. Then go to your admin page of your blog and activate it under Plugins. After that, goto your Presentation->Sidebar Widgets page. Drag it over to the sidebar where you want it displayed.

To configure it, click on the configure icon. You should see a Title: and a Feed URL: options. The Title is just what you want people to see when they hover over the feed icon. The Feed URL is where you put the location of your blog feed on Feedburner. Theoretically, you should just be able to change BLOGNAME under the defaults and everything should work.

For example, under my options, I have:

Title: Subscribe to my feed, Jeremy’s Brain Dump

Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/jeremysbraindump

I hope that this is of value to someone.

Future versions will probably have a modifiable title and all of the icon versions that Feedburner has.

Any comments or suggestions are more than welcome.

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This entry was posted on Friday, May 12th, 2006 at 9:59 AM and filed under Feedburner, WordPress.
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Comments (65) to “Announcing a Feedburner Wordpress Widget”

  1. andy wrote:

    Check ouy the feed_link filter hook, too. It lets you modify the links in the <head> section of your pages. Those links are the ones programs use to auto-discover your feeds. If you want all feed traffic going through FeedBurner, you’ll filter those links!

    Posted on 12-May-06 at 12:52 pm | Permalink

  2. Jeremy wrote:

    So, if understand this correctly…

    I would attempt to modify these three lines in the header:

    link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0: Artikel” href=”http://blog.finke.ws/?feed=rss2″ /
    link rel=”alternate” type=”text/xml” title=”RSS .92: Artikel” href=”http://blog.finke.ws/?feed=rss” /
    link rel=”alternate” type=”application/atom+xml” title=”Atom 0.3: Artikel” href=”http://blog.finke.ws/?feed=atom” /

    And I would do this with a filter hook. Where would that code be called from in the widget? Up where I check for the existance of widgets? Or do I need to write a plugin for it? Don’t the headers get created before the widgets are loaded? Or does it check for filters before and html gets generated??

    Thanks!

    Jeremy

    Posted on 12-May-06 at 1:41 pm | Permalink

  3. WordPress Widgets » Blog Archive » Subscribe with FeedBurner wrote:

    [...] Jeremy is working on a widget for folks who use FeedBurner. The initial version of the widget is very basic but he has some good ideas for development. [...]

    Posted on 17-May-06 at 11:59 pm | Permalink

  4. BloggingPro China » Blog Archive » WordPress Widget: feedburn wrote:

    [...] 　　feedburn，提供Feedburner订阅链接。 feedburner rss [...]

    Posted on 18-May-06 at 1:19 am | Permalink

  5. eloyramirez wrote:

    awesome…thanks so much for your work. definetely made it easier than modifying the code.

    peace,

    -e

    Posted on 19-Jul-06 at 3:12 pm | Permalink

  6. BlogCarta.com · New Subscribe To Feedburner Widget For Worpress wrote:

    [...] A great new plugin has been released over on Jeremys Brain Dump which gives you the ability to easily add a ‘Subscribe To Feedburner’ widget into your Wordpress blogs and arrange it just like the rest of your widgets. You can select which Feed icons, or ‘chicklets’ as they are called, you want to display from the widget options. [...]

    Posted on 26-Jul-06 at 5:55 pm | Permalink

  7. dionak wrote:

    Jeremy, I altered this widget to be a little more standards compliant with the markup. How can I get this update to you? I thought it might be more helpful to update it and share the change with you.

    Posted on 03-Aug-06 at 9:31 pm | Permalink

  8. mollyfud wrote:

    Hey Dude,
    Love the widget. Any chance of updating it to have the feedburner email option on it? This would just top it right off!

    JMTC, keep up the great work.
    Molly

    Posted on 06-Aug-06 at 9:02 pm | Permalink

  9. Jeremy wrote:

    Diona,

    Thank you very much. I will try to take a look at it this week.

    Jeremy

    Posted on 08-Aug-06 at 7:21 pm | Permalink

  10. Jeremy wrote:

    Molly,

    Do you have link that shows that feature? I am not familiar with it.

    Thanks!

    Jeremy

    Posted on 08-Aug-06 at 7:22 pm | Permalink

  11. 独伫小桥听风雨 » Blog Archive » Widget汉化版 wrote:

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    Posted on 10-Aug-06 at 8:44 pm | Permalink

  12. you.gotFoo.org » Blog Archive » Web2.0 from a Developer/Hacker/Blogger Perspective wrote:

    [...] For instance FeedBurner’s API is is like a 6.5 on a scale of 1 to 10 but Jeremy T. Finke wrote a WP Plugin (Feedburner Widget) (that intergrates into the Sidebar Widgets by Automattic) which lets a site owner add syndicated chicklets to a sidebar on the site that are redirected back through Feedburner. [...]

    Posted on 23-Aug-06 at 1:16 pm | Permalink

  13. gotfoo? » Blog Archive » Web2.0 from a Developer/Hacker/Blogger Perspective wrote:

    [...] For instance FeedBurner’s API is is like a 6.5 on a scale of 1 to 10 but Jeremy T. Finke wrote a WP Plugin (Feedburner Widget) (that intergrates into the Sidebar Widgets by Automattic) which lets a site owner add syndicated chicklets to a sidebar on the site that are redirected back through Feedburner. [...]

    Posted on 24-Aug-06 at 3:39 am | Permalink

  14. you.gotFoo.org » Blog Archive » Wordpress Plugins: FeedBurner wrote:

    [...] Feedburner Wordpress Widget This allows you put Feedburner subscription links into your WordPress sidebar and arrange it with the rest of your widgets. [...]

    Posted on 25-Aug-06 at 1:41 pm | Permalink

  15. gotfoo.org » gotfoo.org’s Essential Wordpress Plugins wrote:

    [...] Feedburner Wordpress Widget This allows you put Feedburner subscription links into your WordPress sidebar and arrange it with the rest of your widgets. [...]

    Posted on 25-Sep-06 at 10:03 am | Permalink

  16. John’s Marketing Blog » Useful Plugins for WordPress 2 wrote:

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    Posted on 29-Sep-06 at 5:44 am | Permalink

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    Posted on 05-Oct-06 at 8:23 pm | Permalink

  18. Ariejan.net » Blog Archive » Spicing up Ariejan.net wrote:

    [...] FeedBurner WidgetTransforms the RSS feeds in wordpress to represent my FeedBurner feeds. (for the stats, thank you) Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

    Posted on 29-Oct-06 at 1:53 pm | Permalink

  19. Ariejan.net » Blog Archive » Plugins used on Ariejan.net wrote:

    [...] FeedBurner Widget Allows me to publish my RSS feed through FeedBurner. This is great for the management of the feed and usage (not user!) tracking. [...]

    Posted on 21-Nov-06 at 3:46 pm | Permalink

  20. Essential Blogging Tools wrote:

    [...] Adsense-Deluxe+ – Place AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts CG-InBetween – Easily insert code between posts Feedburner Widget – Adds syndicated chicklets to your sidebar [...]

    Posted on 25-Dec-06 at 1:59 am | Permalink

  21. xtime wrote:

    I am not a PHP genius. Whe I try to download the widget I only get an html page. How do I install and use this widget? Will in display feed burner stats? Is there a widget that will display feedburner stats?

    Posted on 13-Jan-07 at 10:24 am | Permalink

  22. Jeremy wrote:

    xtime,

    You need to install it just like any other plugin/widget. You can check the codex for more information at: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins.

    It does not display any statistics. I am not sure of anything that does. I just wanted to manage them all centrally via feedburner, which is what this does.

    Posted on 18-Jan-07 at 1:56 pm | Permalink

  23. » Wordpress plugins | de ce? Blog | wrote:

    [...] Feedburner Widget 2.1 – pentru sindicarea continutului – el e responsabil de iconitele alea cu rss :D [...]

    Posted on 26-Jan-07 at 6:17 pm | Permalink

  24. Gravitational Pull » Blog Archive » Geeting more info with Feedburner wrote:

    [...] I added a MyBlogLog account the other day to get more info about who’s reading my blog but the hole in that strategy is that MyBlogLog only counts people coming to my web site, not those who read entries via RSS. So I’ve now switched my RSS feed sign ups in the sidebar to Feedburner, which provides similar info about readers on the feeds. Just don’t get too close to the flame…and of course, the easiest way to integrate Feedburner feeds was with a plug-in widget. I chose Jeremy Finke’s easy-to-use (and aptly named) Feedburner widget for Wordpress. [...]

    Posted on 19-Feb-07 at 7:06 am | Permalink

  25. fmf wrote:

    This widget is really what I need except for the icon: I’d like to use my own icon for the feed, so I made some modification, how can I send you the patched file?

    Posted on 23-Feb-07 at 10:03 am | Permalink

  26. 月光沼泽-MoonSwamp wrote:

    FeedBurner Plugin

    Using some WordPress plugin magic, and user agent detection, this plugin simply forwards all your feed traffic to FeedBurner.

    Table of Contents

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    Author（插件作者）
    Version（插件版本）
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    Int…

    Posted on 24-Feb-07 at 1:32 pm | Permalink

  27. Wordpress plugins …sau ce pluginuri folosesc …. wrote:

    [...] FeedBurner Widget – un widget simpatic si customizabil pentru redirectionare feedurilor prin FeedBurner [...]

    Posted on 10-Apr-07 at 5:59 am | Permalink

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    Posted on 20-May-07 at 1:46 am | Permalink

  29. Feedburner Feeds at The Blog of Sean wrote:

    [...] Ok, the feeds are being powered with feedburner.I’m using a lovely plugin called Feedburn to change all my subcribe links over to feedburner aswell as provide the chicklets that you can see in the right hand sidebar there! Very good plugin! So far no trouble with it! [...]

    Posted on 08-Jun-07 at 9:47 am | Permalink

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    Posted on 21-Jun-07 at 7:17 am | Permalink

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    Posted on 18-Jul-07 at 5:12 am | Permalink

  32. ovidiu wrote:

    your plugin somehow kills the links to my feeds inside my footer. before your plugin was activated the code looked like this:

    “>Entries RSS
    “>Comments RSS

    the result was a link to my feeds but after activating your plugin the generated links look like this:

    feed:///

    what should my code look like so your plugin can just elegantly replace them?

    Posted on 25-Jul-07 at 3:00 pm | Permalink

  33. ovidiu wrote:

    hello,I was just wondering why your plugin smashes my feed links :-) the original code looks like this: “>Entries RSS “>Comments RSS but after activating your plugin the links to my feeds look like this: feed:/// check it out here: http://www.pensiunea-nora.ro in the footer – any idea whats wrong?

    Posted on 27-Jul-07 at 5:47 am | Permalink

  34. Jeremy wrote:

    Not sure… I noticed that you are running 2.2. Something may have changed in the WP api.

    Notice in your source you get:

    link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Pensiunea Nora RSS Feed" href="" /

    What the widget should do is catch your default feeds and substitute the feedburner ones.

    Do your icons work at all?

    Posted on 27-Jul-07 at 7:56 am | Permalink

  35. 100 WordPress Plugins » Blog Archive » Feed Plugins wrote:

    [...] Feedburner Wordpress Widget Put Feedburner subscription links into your WordPress sidebar and arrange it with the rest of your widgets. [...]

    Posted on 27-Jul-07 at 5:57 pm | Permalink

  36. Plugins Wordpress pour Kikoosland.com | KIKOOsLAND wrote:

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    Posted on 16-Sep-07 at 6:24 am | Permalink

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    [...] FeedBurner Widget Allows me to publish my RSS feed through FeedBurner. This is great for the management of the feed and usage (not user!) tracking. [...]

    Posted on 23-Sep-07 at 5:56 pm | Permalink

  38. Jeremy’s Brain Dump » Wordpress 2.3 and Feedburn Widget wrote:

    [...] have just upgraded to Wordpress 2.3. So far, so good. My feedburn widget is running correct as far as I can tell. If anyone has any problems please let me [...]

    Posted on 04-Oct-07 at 7:55 pm | Permalink

  39. POV » Up & Running wrote:

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    Posted on 05-Nov-07 at 11:28 am | Permalink

  41. Meekuu wrote:

    Hello,
    I use your plugin since 2.1 version and now (I just have some free time) I noticed that I have some problems with XHTML validation.
    When I try to use feedburner stats image (number of people subscribed) xhtml validator screams about & chars. Can you help me with that ?

    Posted on 23-Jan-08 at 9:59 am | Permalink

  42. Jeremy wrote:

    Meeku,

    Could you provide a little more detail? I don’t think that I have included anything regarding feedburner stats.

    Posted on 23-Jan-08 at 10:06 am | Permalink

  43. Meekuu wrote:

    Problem solved. The problem appeared when I displayed that badge from feedburner.
    I just modified feedburn-2.2.php and replaced & with & .

    Posted on 23-Jan-08 at 11:05 am | Permalink

  44. Meekuu wrote:

    I mean &

    Posted on 23-Jan-08 at 11:05 am | Permalink

  45. Meekuu wrote:

    & amp;

    Posted on 23-Jan-08 at 11:05 am | Permalink

  46. Jeremy wrote:

    Hmmm.. Interesting…

    I am kind of busy right now, but I will take a look see in a couple of weeks. I probably should include an option to include the feedburner user count.

    Posted on 23-Jan-08 at 11:22 am | Permalink

  47. blog-thing : 七十二松提供插件介绍 wrote:

    [...] FeedBurner FeedSmith 把bolg上的全部feed都烧到它的网站上去，然后把灰吹到世界各地。与之相关的还有个侧面栏叫Feedburner Widget。与之相对应的feed服务还有Feedsky Feed 插件 Feedsky Widget [...]

    Posted on 15-Feb-08 at 8:25 am | Permalink

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    [...] Jeremy’s Brain Dump » Announcing a Feedburner Wordpress Widget [...]

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    [...] Feedburner Widget by Jeremy T. Finke . [...]

    Posted on 14-Mar-08 at 3:36 pm | Permalink

  50. koltregaskes wrote:

    Hi Jeremy, very useful widget, thanks. But the Badge chicklet is not working, basically no graphic shows though you can just about find the link.

    Also, where do you get these Share and Enjoy links from??

    Email me back if you can?

    Posted on 23-Mar-08 at 5:35 pm | Permalink

  51. Jeremy wrote:

    I will check into it. I really need to update it. The last time I looked at feedburner’s website, they added a bunch more services.

    I get the images from the sites themselves as it is presented by feedburner.

    Posted on 23-Mar-08 at 5:47 pm | Permalink

  52. Jeremy wrote:

    Sorry… The share and enjoy links are another plugin. It is called socialble.

    You can find it at http://www.joostdevalk.nl/wordpress/sociable/

    Posted on 23-Mar-08 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

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