Using FeedBurner with Typo

Raymond Law — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:42:00 -0400

You want to run your Typo blog feed through FeedBurner.

First, go to your blog’s admin page and click on the DESIGN tab. Drag the XML Syndication item from Available Items to Active Sidebar items. Choose either RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0 according to what you choose when setting up FeedBurner. I selected Articles only because that’s what I want. Remember to click on the Publish changes button.

In your Typo app, modify vendor/plugins/xml_sidebar/views/content.rhtml to the following:

  <% if articles -%>
  <li><a href="<Your FeedBurner URL>" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><img src="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/feed-icon16x16.png" alt="" style="vertical-align:middle;border:0"/></a>&nbsp;<a href="<Your FeedBurner URL>" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml">Subscribe</a></li>
  <% end %>

Of course you can use whatever image you like. The one shown above is linked to FeedBurner’s standard feed icon. You can use FeedBurner’s Chicklet Chooser to get the HTML code to paste into content.rhtml.

Another way is to set up a redirect using mod_rewrite in your Apache configuration (thanks to Robby):

  # Redirect typo feeds to FeedBurner
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^FeedBurner.*$
  RewriteRule /xml/(atom|rss|rss20)/feed.xml$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/rayvinly [R=temp,L]

In both cases, make sure you go to your blog admin’s SETTINGS tab, scroll to the bottom and click on Empty Fragment Cache.

Now go to your blog page and click on that Subscribe link to see your FeedBurner feed.

"Using FeedBurner with Typo" by Piers Cawley

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:10:00 -0400

The trouble with the Apache redirect is that, with edge typo, those feed urls are no longer definitive. The new canonical urls are going to be http://host/articles.atom and http://host/articles.rss.

A better way would probably be to pull out the feed URL generation stuff from ContentHelper#page_header, add a feedburner_url field to the blog settings and proceed from there.

Patches welcome :)

Raymond Law: Using FeedBurner with Typo

Using FeedBurner with Typo

"Using FeedBurner with Typo" by Piers Cawley