Feedburner API Closing Down 20th October 2012 - Losing subscribers :-(

[Scottishmum]

Lots of the themes have a dependency on Feedburner for the pretty subscribe by e-mail boxes that look so lovely on our websites. The Feedburner API is closing soon, and it looks like we may lose the subscribers we have on our blogs.

I've not managed to find a way around it, so looking for help from the theme designers on how our feeds will still be integrated with our websites as the theme templates will not work as per the tutorials any more.

If I have understood this wrong, and there is an easy way to fix it, I'm all ears (and eyes). I can export the e-mail subscribers, but I can't do the same for the RSS ones.

Thanks

[andrea_r]

You've misunderstood.

They are closing the down the API service. Not the service itself. The API is not hte same thing as the rss feed delivery. From the looks of the posts I've read, plenty people have also misunderstood and there's numerous posts clarifying it.

This means that plugins that use Feedburner details, like a plugin to show your subscribeers in your WP admin area, will cease to work . That's it.

It does not mean your feedburner feed will stop working, nor does it mean the enews widget will stop working. That widget uses code they give us.

See:
https://plus.google.com/116986422495...ts/dRzKzJgBsi9


Also - every Wordpress blog out there already has an rss feed included.

[Scottishmum]

Thanks Andrea

I am understanding that come 20th October, my regular feeds will still work, but developer apps won't. That's a relief.

I'm also now wary since they've shut down Feedburner Twitter and Blog, that the next step might well be coming in the future.

I still live in horror at the closure of Google Friend Connect, which punished everyone not using Blogger - hundreds of subscribers disappeared overnight for me, and some lost thousands. I have a bad feeling about how this is going to end up, but I'd like to think I am wrong.

[andrea_r]

You can still redirect your feed subscribers to the default WP feeds.

You can also export your email subscribers to another mailing list.

[gpsmapper]

Originally Posted by andrea_r

You can still redirect your feed subscribers to the default WP feeds.

How?

[andrea_r]

Write a post and say :subscribe to this feed instead" and leave the default WP feed address.


Then uncheck the box to redirect to feedburner.