Confusion Most The Post Service Feed Redirect Feature
Thursday, December 5, 2019
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The globe of Blogger blogs contains a lot of confusing terminology.
Some Blogger features don't fifty-fifty receive got names. Some names, which I use, are damage which I made upwards on my own, years agone - only because Blogger did non furnish a name, at that time. One term, which Blogger did laissez passer on us, withal causes confusion. The term "Post Feed Redirect" seems to depict an option, inwards Blogger, to redirect the post service feed to a unlike URL.
The Post Feed Redirect characteristic is used past times some confused spider web log owners, improperly.
There are several specific cases, all also common.
This redirection, reverse to the term "Post Feed", also affects the comments feeds as well as the labels feeds, relevant to the spider web log where the setting is used.
Besides the fact that the pick inwards query affects all feeds inwards the blog, the biggest confusion is that using the pick does non genuinely redirect the feed - it redirects the references to the feed. People utilization this pick inwards the expectation that it volition modify the URL of the feed. This pick does non modify the URL of the feed - it changes the URL used past times references to the feed.
To modify the feed references, successfully, you lot must receive got the URL mentioned past times the setting already published, inwards a variety out effort.
If you lot are reading this post, aspect downwardly the page, after the "Newer Post Home Older Post" links.
There is an instance of the master copy feed reference. The role of the post service feed redirect feature, long ago, was to allow the spider web log owners generate a unlike feed for the spider web log - mayhap a FeedBurner republished post service feed - as well as forcefulness that link to reference the FeedBurner republished feed.
If you lot utilization that link, as well as subscribe to the feed from this blog, you lot should larn a subscription offer, using the FeedBurner feed for this blog.
The Post Feed Redirect only lets people setup as well as utilization an alternate feed URL, without having to update the code for all links which reference the post service feed - such every bit that link.
That's it - pure as well as simple.
If you lot receive got - fifty-fifty unintentionally - misused the post service feed redirect inwards your blog, it's slowly to correct the mistake. Just sympathise why you lot should right the mistake.
Some Blogger features don't fifty-fifty receive got names. Some names, which I use, are damage which I made upwards on my own, years agone - only because Blogger did non furnish a name, at that time. One term, which Blogger did laissez passer on us, withal causes confusion. The term "Post Feed Redirect" seems to depict an option, inwards Blogger, to redirect the post service feed to a unlike URL.
The Post Feed Redirect characteristic is used past times some confused spider web log owners, improperly.
There are several specific cases, all also common.
- Change the URL of the feed. Redirecting the spider web log feed, to only modify the URL, causes the feed to redirect to non existent content - or a dead feed.
- Publishing the spider web log to a non BlogSpot URL. Custom domain publishing provides automatic redirection of the spider web log URL - as well as past times extension, the spider web log feed URL. Adding a feed redirect causes an interplanetary space loop.
- Randomly bring out the spider web log to novel audiences. Redirecting the spider web log feed to a random redirector causes the spider web log readers to study a hijacked Reading List - as well as later, to only remove the blog, using a redirected feed, from the Reading List.
This redirection, reverse to the term "Post Feed", also affects the comments feeds as well as the labels feeds, relevant to the spider web log where the setting is used.
Besides the fact that the pick inwards query affects all feeds inwards the blog, the biggest confusion is that using the pick does non genuinely redirect the feed - it redirects the references to the feed. People utilization this pick inwards the expectation that it volition modify the URL of the feed. This pick does non modify the URL of the feed - it changes the URL used past times references to the feed.
To modify the feed references, successfully, you lot must receive got the URL mentioned past times the setting already published, inwards a variety out effort.
- If you lot renamed the spider web log to a unlike BlogSpot URL, you lot tin flame redirect the feed reference, from a stub blog, to the feed published nether the novel URL.
- If you lot used a unlike service, similar FeedBurner, to create a reformatted feed replica, you lot tin flame redirect the feed reference to the FeedBurner feed URL.
- In either case, the URL has to exist, from a variety out effort.
If you lot are reading this post, aspect downwardly the page, after the "Newer Post Home Older Post" links.
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There is an instance of the master copy feed reference. The role of the post service feed redirect feature, long ago, was to allow the spider web log owners generate a unlike feed for the spider web log - mayhap a FeedBurner republished post service feed - as well as forcefulness that link to reference the FeedBurner republished feed.
If you lot utilization that link, as well as subscribe to the feed from this blog, you lot should larn a subscription offer, using the FeedBurner feed for this blog.
The Post Feed Redirect only lets people setup as well as utilization an alternate feed URL, without having to update the code for all links which reference the post service feed - such every bit that link.
That's it - pure as well as simple.
If you lot receive got - fifty-fifty unintentionally - misused the post service feed redirect inwards your blog, it's slowly to correct the mistake. Just sympathise why you lot should right the mistake.