Comments on: Setting up Feedburner RSS and Email subscription for your blog

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:52:45 +0000

@Lito|UnproBlogger.Com My understanding is that Feedburner gives you full post only. Your other option would be to install a Subscribe by Email plugin on your blog. There are a few that allow you to send excerpts only.

By: Lito|UnproBlogger.Com

Lito|UnproBlogger.Com — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:56:16 +0000

@Sue Waters
I was also wondering how to configure the subscribe by email post so I can make it as a summary and wants subcriber to see just a glimps of my post and direct them to my blog. Before Google acquired feedburner, I set my older blogs to have the subscription by email to work just like that but now I forgot how I did it. My hunch is maybe that feature was removed from feedburner or maybe it was placed somewhere. Hope u can help us wth this and thanks!

By: essence

essence — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:59:52 +0000

you have been helpful. i have successfully set up feed burner in my blog.you are great.

By: charlieosullivan

charlieosullivan — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:21:07 +0000

Thanks so much for this. Really appreciate the time you spent showing me how to set it up.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:54:26 +0000

@Sherri, I don’t believe that Feedburner provides this ability and generally on a blog you would use either a plugin for it that works inside your blog dashboard. For example, the Subscrobe2 plugin allows you to do this.

Another alternative would be to use a Mail client as well as email subscription. For example, we use MailChimp for our emails which works well. Your subscribers could choose if they wanted to join your mailing list.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:44:59 +0000

@Jayshree, FeedBurner doesn’t have the ability to import your subscribers automatically – as far as I’m aware. So you would need to add each manually.

However we also had issues with Subscribe2 on our WordPress MU installs so have developed our own email subscription solution. Our email subscription solution works on both single installs of WordPress and WordPress MU, and is designed to automatically import all your Subcribe2 subscribers when you install it.

You can find more about the Subscribe by Email Plugin here.

By: Jayshree

Jayshree — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:16:16 +0000

Thank you for this post.

Currently I am using Wordpress Plugin Subscribe2 for the email subscriptions (which is not working the way it should).

Would it be possible to move the current list of subscribers to Feedburner without entering each and every email address to the feedburner request and asking them to authorize?

Also, I noticed that Feedburner sends the whole post in the emails. Where do I change the settings so that it would send only the preview (like first few words or so) in the email and then give the link of post?

I would really appreciate any help in this regard.
Thank you so much…

By: Sherri

Sherri — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:50:47 +0000

I would like to know if I can occasionally send out instant messaging posts to my subscribers, rather than having to wait for the assigned delivery time. Some times the information I post is time sensitive and it would be MUCH better to send immediately. Thank you
Sherri

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By: Food Floozy

Food Floozy — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 23:42:16 +0000

Thank you SOOOO much. I was having trouble working this out and you’ve made it so easy. Thank you, thank you, thank you!