Hobby Stash

Adding Category RSS Feedburner/Google Feeds

My website is a conglomeration of a variety of hobbies. As such, readers might want to follow one of my hobbies while others are of no interest. WordPress has built in RSS feeds for categories and posts but I’m using Feedburner so that I can track the number of readers. I wanted a way to track by category the number of subscribers. Perishable Press to the rescue with a tutorial to Redirect WordPress Individual Category Feeds to Feedburner via HTAccess.

Of course, I had to muddy the waters by moving my feeds from Feedburner to Google. It converted the main and comment feeds just fine but went crazy when it tried to convert the category feeds. Thankfully, since they were new feeds, there were no subscribers. But I feel for those trying to move an established subscriber base. I ended up deleting the original feeds and recreating through Google. Once recreated, I used Perishable Press’s technique to redirect WordPress’s category feeds to the new Google feeds.

Right now I have my feeds more or less hidden in plain site in the links section of the sidebar. They will eventually be incorporated into each category’s main page once I decide how and where.