WordPress subscription system is not up to the mark and that is why most bloggers tend to use FeedBurner instead of the default WordPress’s subscription system. But placing a widget that lets your visitors subscribe to your FeedBurner feeds is not sufficient enough, redirecting the default WordPress feeds to FeedBurner is equally important.
Why You Should Redirect WordPress Feeds To FeedBurner
Feeds for your WordPress website are accessed using the URL: http://www.mstoic.com/feeds/ . Now most people and applications will use this URL to find and subscribe to your feeds. Returning your FeedBurner URL is a better option instead of the WordPress default to make sure that people subscribe to your FeedBurner feed.
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Redirecting WordPress Feeds To FeedBurner
Placing a small code in your .htaccess file will redirect all requests to ‘http://www.example.com/feed/‘, ‘http://www.example.com/feeds/‘, or ‘http://www.example.com/atom/‘ to your FeedBurner feeds. Refer to this guide for editing .htaccess file in WordPress.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedValidator [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedname [R=302,NC,L]
</IfModule>
Don’t forget to change the feedname with the name of your feed.
