I have now changed my RSS feed so that it uses FeedBurner. If you happen to subscribe to the feed, there is nothing you have to do. If you don’t subscribe, you can use either ask-mark.com/feed or feeds.feedburner.com/ask-mark. I used the WordPress FeedBurner Plugin by Steve Smith. The plugin automatically forwards and redirects things using .htaccess. It’s probably the easiest way to burn your feed with FeedBurner. The plugin works with both v.1.5 and v.2.0 of WordPress.
I decided to try out FeedBurner just because. I had no really good reason. Hell, Jacqui’s use of it didn’t even move me to use it long ago. I did want a nicer looking feed than just the XML, and FeedBurner does just that. I know that I could have done it with some XSL, but for now the FeedBurner XSL is fine.
I didn’t really understand a word of that…but we can pretend I did, for a while, or at least until things start not working, haha.
Basically, the plugin does some redirection magic. I’ve actually managed to modify it so that my comments feed is also burned
That is a feature requested on the plugin’s site. I haven’t figured out how to modify the plugin yet, so I had to manually edit my .htaccess file (it’s an Apache file that does cool things like authentication and redirects).