In this tutotial I am going to show you how to redirect your default WordPress feed URLs to your Feedburner URL without using any WordPress plugin. Less plugins should speed up your blog.
Feedburner is a very nice service, it provides an excellent feed service that lets you track how many people are subscribed to your rss feed and more.
You can easily redirect your default WordPress feed URLs to your Feedburner URL with .htaccess, which will make you save a lot of time! All you have to do is add the following set of codes to your .htaccess file. Replace yourblogfeedburnername by that of your feedburner feed name.
#redirect wordpress feeds to feedburner
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(FeedBurner|FeedValidator) [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?.*$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourblogfeedburnername [L,NC,R=302]
</IfModule>
Once the code is in place into your site’s .htaccess file, all your rss feed will be redirected to Feedburner feeds.
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So you don’t have to keep repeating IfModule and RewriteEngine. Just insert the following code into the WordPress generated rewriterules in your blog’s .htaccess file. Just after the “RewriteBase /” and before the “RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]”
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(FeedBurner|FeedValidator) [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?.*$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourblogfeedburnername [L,NC,R=302]
Warning
When editing or modifying the .htaccess file of your WordPress blog, make sure to always have a backup that you can restore in case of something went wrong.