Feeds now fixed

After a long time waiting for our Feedburner feed to be fixed, I finally managed to figure out how to do it myself.

For a long time I tried to change the feed address within Feedburner back to the original “TxpTips” which returned either a “that URI is taken” or a “404 not found” error.

It seems Feedburner does not allow a user to recreate a feed with the same name until 30 days have passed. After this period it was possible to create a new feed with the same “TxpTips” name. I did this, then published the RSS feeds using the TXP feed tags in the <head>:

<txp:feed_link flavor="rss" format="link" title="TXP Tips" label="TXP Tips" section="articles" />
<txp:feed_link flavor="rss" format="link" title="TXP Tips blog" label="TXP Tips blog" section="blog" />

Once this was done Feedburner started to work again so we were almost there. The final problem involved the htn_feedstats plugin, which returned “no data” instead of the displaying the number of subscribers.

I read somewhere that since Google took over Feedburner, the Feedburner id changed to the name of the feed, i.e “TxpTips”. This works:

<txp:htn_feedstats id="TxpTips" />
But using the numerical id also works:
<txp:htn_feedstats id="rh113qlln1cbp0vaqjaom9298s" />

So it seems you can use either value. To find your Feedburner id, login to Feedburner and select your feed. The id is the number at the end of the URL: dashboard?id=rh113qlln1cbp0vaqjaom9298s

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