I recently switched to feedburner on my main feed only. I’m using the OrderedList feedburner plugin. It only redirects my main feed. My categories feed and comments feed and such all still hit my main site, without redirection. No special trickery needed, it does that by default.

I noticed that when I switched over to Feedburner I stopped having all the individual post and comments feeds…. That is now fixed by only switching to Feedburners feed for /feed/* or /comments/*
I had this same issue when I migrated my wordpress feeds to feedburner using 302 redirects in mod_rewrite based on the USER_AGENT.
The result was I lost all my other comment and individual post feeds..

But I just realized that all I had to do was change the htaccess code to only apply feedburner when the REQUEST_URI is either /feed/ or /comments/ Now it all works perfectly!

Learn how simple it is to get working

I saw that it was less that 2% who subscribed to something other than the main feed… and the thing is, those versatile feeds are still there, just not passing through FeedBurner.

By auto-discovery do you mean how the browser shows a little RSS icon in the toolbar when a feed is detected on the page? If so, you can control that with the HTML on your site. If you look the “head” section of your page, you’ll see something like this:

You can duplicate that and just change the title and href attributes for each of your feeds. Then visitors will be presented with a list of feeds to choose from if they click the RSS icon in their browser.

Recently Mint - the awesome stat tracking software (see http://www.haveamint.com) - hit version 2, and contains a Pepper - plugin in Mint speak - for keeping track of your feeds called Bird Feeder.

Using this, it strikes me that the only reason for using FeedBurner becomes a static feed address - if you move your site, you don’t have to update the feed url. If you have your own domain, chances are that isn’t massively important to you.

It would be far simpler if I could just set up my site on Feedburner and then I could just link to Feedburner with a custom link (depending on what feed I want to highlight on my blog) in much the same manner as WordPress currently does except using the Feedburner URL instead.

Eric, the inconvenience depends on the user and the type of blog. Although I am glad that I could bring it to someone’s attention at Feedburner.

If the plugin was able to function on any feed, it would make that easier. Of course i’d vote for FeedBurner being able to automatically understand WordPress’ “subfeeds.”

- Eric

For example, by default, WordPress feeds can be accessed by simply adding “…/feed” to the end of the url (if custom permalinks are enabled - and in most cases) It would be groovy if after submitting one’s WordPress site to Feedburner that the same functionality would be integrated.

Is that more along the lines of what you’re talking about Mark? That’s what I’d love to see! Although, I think the title is a bit misleading - I don’t see it as a fatal flaw of Feedburner - more like a minor inconvenience for some of us.