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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Integrating Feedburner feeds on your theme


Feedburner is a service that allows you to keep a count of the people who have subscribed for your RSS feed. Once you have created a Feedburner feed, you have to integrate it to your theme. In this recipe, we shall learn three different How to do it... sections to integrate the Feedburner feeds with your theme.

How to do it...

There are three methods of integrating the Feedburner with a theme. These methods have been explained in the following sections:

Let’s start with the manual way by carrying out the following steps:

  1. In order to integrate your Feedburner feeds, you can simply edit your theme files and replace the following line of code, <?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?> with your Feedburner URL.

  2. Usually, the RSS feeds are called in the header.php file. Many themes also feature RSS links in the footer.php and sidebar.php files.

  3. If you're using a Mac or a Linux machine, you can find any RSS link featured on a theme by executing the following command...