Oilman Now Powered By Feedburner
Wed, Oct 10, 2007
yeah yeah yeah - I know. It’s about damn time. Click below to update your feed to the new Feedburner URL. Really I just want to see high numbers in the Feedburner doohicky at the bottom of the right sidebar 
October 10th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Use a rewrite rule to redirect everyone Todd.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-] )?/?$ /blog/wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-] )?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/oilman [R,L]
October 10th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Oops, take out the /blog/, thats from my blog’s.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Thanks Dill. I gave it a shot and got a 500 error. I’ll try again and see if I missed something. htaccess and regex are really not my strong suit
I’m just an SEO after all.
October 10th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Cool!
October 10th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
I already have this in my htacess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
do I just paste the new code below that?
October 10th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Are you going to talk about feedburner widgets in your site review panel at Pubcon?
October 10th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Below the RewriteBase, before the first RewriteCond.
Here’s the fixed code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-] )?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-] )?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/oilman [R,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
October 11th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Hey Todd you could also just use the feedburner wordpress plugin. You can find the download link on the quick start page http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/wordpress_quickstart
October 11th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Hi Dillsmack,
I believe that when a custom set of rules are placed in with the wordpress rules that wordpress will write over them changing everything in between the two #Wordpress comments back to the default.
It’s the save_mod_rewrite_rules() function that does this. So to prevent it from rewriting you would need to comment out that function. I think it’s in wp-includes/rewrite.php. Or you could place the custom rules outside of the wordpress block.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
yes, it is about bloody time…
thanks though
February 21st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
well, I’m gonna try this.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Hi, can you tell me why is better FeedBurner than the default rss feed? Thanks in advance!
March 16th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Thanks for the update. I need to update my feed also. More fancy charts and graphs to look at!
April 13th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Thanks! I will update my feed too.
Edson Wada
MegaBonus - http://www.unicartao.com.br
June 7th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
well, I’m gonna try this.
The htcass?
July 5th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
What does Feedburner do?
October 19th, 2008 at 9:23 am
i would suggest using the feedburner feedsmith plugin
October 19th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Have you tried wordpress? what do you think? Some blogs are already powered by wordpress 2.5. I’m thinking of doing that also.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Nice.
I have to try this one. Thank you
December 15th, 2008 at 5:58 am
Go for wordpress 2.5!;)
December 21st, 2008 at 9:30 am
Phew! I was a lot confused when I was trying to post the feed to my home page from my blog. But, thankfully the guys from the Digital Point forums helped me out.
This info is very useful to newbies to blogosphere, like me.
Copied the content for further reading and working on it.
Thanks.
December 27th, 2008 at 9:56 am
if your getting a 500 error, check you server error logs, a lot of times its a permission issue.
December 30th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Or go to wordpress 2.7 which is great
January 12th, 2009 at 10:40 am
oh thanks its amazing sharing
January 12th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Yes feedburner is the way to go. Even though the statistics are a bit swingy I think.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I’d have to give my vote for Wordpress too! That’s what I use…No complaints!
January 16th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
What advantage feedburner can give?
I use my own rss - it simple, but effective.
Sorry for my english, I’m from Russia =)
January 18th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Cool!
i would suggest using the feedburner feedsmith plugin
nice blog
Regards
Gwen
http://work-doctor-australia.com
January 18th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Id this good for the latest update 2.7)?
January 21st, 2009 at 7:35 am
I found Feedburner rather useless. Showing how many people had subscribed isn’t a revolutionary thing.
January 24th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Nice.
I will try this
thanks
January 24th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Awesome stuff. Feed burner has been my choice for some time now. Haven’t tried it on 2.7 though. Also took a walk on your blog and found some really informative posts. Keep it up. I will come back for more.
Cheers
January 27th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
How cool is it that Matt Cutts commented on your blog! Awesome.
February 4th, 2009 at 4:50 am
Awesome. always been a fan of oilman and feedburner. glad to know both have come together. such treat. I’ve been out of the country for few months and couldn’t check these stuff out. Great news anyway. Cheers
February 8th, 2009 at 9:36 am
I would have to check out feedburner, too. ALthough it wouldn’t matter to some, but I think it’s also a good way of knowing if someone got interested with your blog.
February 9th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Definitely good news!
February 12th, 2009 at 4:51 am
I was looking for a way to get my old subscripers onto my feedburner feed. the .htaccess ideas in the comments might be just the thing i need, thanks.
February 12th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Did you take te doohicky down? I don’t see it.
I’m using Feedburner, too. I don’t really know much about RSS, I’m just learning. I’m old.
February 13th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Thanks for the update. I really needed to update my feed burner. I am sure glad you posted it. You are so very appreciated for it too. If I could I would give you a big hug and a pat on the back.
February 14th, 2009 at 10:28 am
I use Feedburner too. Works great for me. Really helps a lot. I use it on an older Wordpress version. I’m hoping to upgrade soon. I think it will do just as good with the newer version too.
February 16th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Nice blog.
Feedburner is great. I used it for a very very long time and i didn’t have any problems with it yet. There are so many advantages too.
February 16th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I’ve been using feedburner since late and it has really been great. No hiccup at all. Smooth as silk. Glad to know you guys are using feedburner as well. Are there any other mainstream sites that use feedburner? Cheers
February 20th, 2009 at 3:57 am
I am using feedburner also.. I know that the google is the owner of feedburner.
February 21st, 2009 at 4:42 am
I’m hoping to upgrade soon. I think it will do just as good with the newer version too.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Using feed burner always pays. I had a lot of help using feed burner.There are a lot of advantages for feed burner.
February 24th, 2009 at 2:40 am
How cool!!!
I love it.
Thank you!!
February 25th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Hello,
do you need [S] on your codes are good codes:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond% (HTTP_USER_AGENT) FeedBurner [S]
RewriteRule ^ feed /?([_ 0-9a-z-] )?/?$ / wp-Feed.php? Feed = $ 1 [QSA]
RewriteCond% (HTTP_USER_AGENT)! FeedBurner [S]
RewriteRule ^ feed /?([_ 0-9a-z-] )?/?$ [S]
http://feeds.feedburner.com/oilman [R, L, S]
RewriteCond% (REQUEST_FILENAME)!-F [S]
RewriteCond% (REQUEST_FILENAME)!-D [S]
RewriteRule. / index.php [L, S]
Finally it's my life has tried it and told me if all goes well
February 26th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Cool.. even i have added feeds to my blog.. you can check it out and subscribve to it
February 26th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
waht is the advantage of using feedburner?? Is better than other serivces like it?
Pls , i want a response because i want to start a new blog.
February 28th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Thanks for the update. I really needed to update my feed burner.
February 28th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
i would suggest using the feedburner feedsmith plugin
nice blog
thank you very much.
February 28th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Use a rewrite rule to redirect everyone Todd.
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