I have had RSS setup for sometime with the default WordPress settings. It worked great except that there are little options. People have been subscribed but I have no way of telling how many. Either I wasn’t looking in the right places or the feature built in just doesn’t carry the information. So many people read blogs by subscribing to their feeds, never to return to the original site. Heck, I do it too.

So I have turned to Feedburner. Another RSS feeder that allows the publisher to see how many people are subscribing to their RSS feed and also has a great interface for the subscriber.

If you subscribed before now to my RSS feed, I would ask that you cancel and re-subscribe with Feedburner if it’s not too much trouble. If the only option is cancel the old and not re-subscribe I would prefer you keep reading, however I would love to track who’s out there.

Simply click over on one of these icons on the right!

If your service isn’t listed there, click on either the orange RSS icon or the feed counter.

To enable the features on the right site I installed a Feedburner widget that I like the look of. There are a couple out there but some of them have integration problems with my theme so I chose this one.

Then I added the counter which you can get from the Feedburner website. They have a code generator that I took and added into a “text” widget in WordPress. And voila, I think a nice addition!