Don't Redirect The Post Service Feed, Redirect The Reference
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
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Occasionally, nosotros encounter concern, inwards renaming a blog.
The Post Feed Redirect is a fundamental tool, whenever y'all rename or supercede your existing blog, alongside a weblog published to a novel URL.
If y'all role a Post Feed Redirect, however, y'all require to add together it to the former weblog - or to a stub blog, published to the former URL - non to the novel blog. You redirect from the former URL, to the novel URL.
Don't redirect the feed, for the novel URL.
The cite "Post Feed Redirect" is misleading. You create non role the "Post Feed Redirect" to redirect the feed - y'all role it to redirect feed references.
Anybody subscribed to the former feed URL has the subscription (ie, the reference) redirected, to the novel URL - if y'all add together a Post Feed Redirect to a stub blog, published to the former URL.
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Look at the main page for this blog. At the bottom of the primary page, y'all volition see
If I was to rename this blog, the URL of the feed would change. I could therefore add together a stub blog, published to the former URL - therefore redirect the feed reference, using a PFR, for the people who are subscribed to my weblog nether that URL.
That's what the Post Feed Redirect does - it redirects the feed references - when y'all develop it properly.
The Post Feed Redirect is a fundamental tool, whenever y'all rename or supercede your existing blog, alongside a weblog published to a novel URL.
If y'all role a Post Feed Redirect, however, y'all require to add together it to the former weblog - or to a stub blog, published to the former URL - non to the novel blog. You redirect from the former URL, to the novel URL.
Don't redirect the feed, for the novel URL.
But how create I serve both the readers subscribed to the former URL, in addition to those subscribed to the novel URL, if I redirect the feed?Don't brand this mistake, in addition to redirect the novel weblog (URL) feed. This weblog possessor is taking the cite "Post Feed Redirect" literally.
The cite "Post Feed Redirect" is misleading. You create non role the "Post Feed Redirect" to redirect the feed - y'all role it to redirect feed references.
Anybody subscribed to the former feed URL has the subscription (ie, the reference) redirected, to the novel URL - if y'all add together a Post Feed Redirect to a stub blog, published to the former URL.
Look below the post, hither - most the bottom of the page. Do y'all see
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)That is a comments feed reference. It lets people subscribe to the comments newsfeed, for this post.
Look at the main page for this blog. At the bottom of the primary page, y'all volition see
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)That is a post feed reference. It lets people subscribe to the weblog posts newsfeed.
If I was to rename this blog, the URL of the feed would change. I could therefore add together a stub blog, published to the former URL - therefore redirect the feed reference, using a PFR, for the people who are subscribed to my weblog nether that URL.
That's what the Post Feed Redirect does - it redirects the feed references - when y'all develop it properly.