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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

Redirecting your WordPress RSS feeds to Feedburner


As I previously said, most bloggers use Feedburner for their RSS feeds. One of the good points of Feedburner is that you can display how many people are reading your blog daily, via RSS. This is, obviously, very good for finding potential advertisers because it gives the advertisers an idea about how popular your blog is.

Even if you edited your theme files and replaced WordPress feeds URL by your Feedburner URL, WordPress feeds are still active and you would be surprised to see how many people are subscribing to your "normal" feeds instead of your Feedburner feeds.

Getting ready

In this recipe, I'm going to show you how to make sure that all your RSS readers are tracked and counted by Feedburner by redirecting WordPress feeds to Feedburner. Like I did in the previous recipe, I'll show you both a hack and a plugin so you can choose the option that fits your blog the most.

How to do it...

As I said, redirecting your WordPress RSS feeds to your...