What’s My Feedburner ID?
Feedburner is an absolute dream come true for a blogger. In fact, I would put in in the top 5 tools that every single blogger needs in their arsenal. It tracks the number of feed subscribers you have, it allows you to offer feed updates via email, and it even has professional site statistics now too! (all for free, mind you)
If you don’t have an account there yet, go there and get one … NOW!
OK, now that you have an account, there are a few things you need to know about feedburner.
1. My feedburner address
This is actually pretty simple, but for the sake of the absolute beginner, you feedburner address is chosen by you when you burn your feed. It usually looks something like this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/myfeedaddress (where “myfeedaddress” is the unique feed string you’ve chosen).
2. My feedburner ID
This one is a little more tricky, but still pretty easy to discover. The first thing you want to do is go to the feedburner homepage and click “sign in”.
Next, you’ll want to put in your username and password.
Once you’ve done that, go ahead and click on the feed you want to find the ID for.
Once you’ve clicked the feed you’re interested in, take a look at your address bar. It should have a URL in it like this one:
Notice the string of numbers I outlined in red? THAT is your feedburner ID for that particular feed.
Copy it down and keep it for later. It just may come in handy :-)
While we’re in there…
Activate the Email Subscription Option
Feedburner also offers you the ability to let users sign up for your feed to be delivered to them via email. But the service must be active first. Here’s how to activate it.
Once you’ve logged in and chosen the feed you want to offer via email, click the “Publicize” tab. Now, on the left hand side of the screen you should see some options. Look for the “Email Subscriptions” link and click it.
Then, just activate it. Once you’ve done that, you may want to poke around in the options and see if there’s anything you’d like to change or customize. But once the email subscription service is active, you’re set to deliver you feed to anyone who signs up!
So What?
OK, this IS sort of an elementary tutorial, I know. It may not seem very useful now, but you’ll see soon enough that it was necessary. If you already knew how to do all this, just ignore this story :-)
Madhur Kapoor
Feedburner is just awesome . I have been using it since the time i started blogging
ben
For some reason the feedburner plugin doesnt show the Email Subscription link in the sidebar. The sidebar contains the code, but nothing is showing. I activated the email subscription in Feedburner.com
Let me know what I have done wrong. Thanks
Nathan Rice
Ben,
Are you having trouble with feedburner itself, or with one of my themes?
Nathan
Corvida
Elementary maybe, but even such tuts are necessary sometimes. Thanks for providing!
Nathan Rice
@Corvida
Yeah, I agree. I guess it can’t be too simple :-)
Beauty-Babe
Thanks Nathan, I know it’s an old article but I was having quite a bit of trouble getting feedburner to work properly and you covered it all in this post
Manny
Thanks! I’ve been looking for this as I’m setting up a new revolution theme for wordpress
Alan Bradford
Thanks for this post. I would have searched for a long time for this – never would have thought to look in the address bar.
mike dancy
actually… wouldn’t your feedburner ID also be the name that you sign in with? I have about 25 or so blogs listed under my one main sign in.. and it’s not a number.
Nathan Rice
@mike dancy
The feedburner ID and your sign in name are very different. The feedburner ID has to do with the ID of the individual feed you’ve set up, not the account you set it up under.
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Tony Yang
Hello Nathan Rice
my feedburner link is http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/dashboard?id=c6s5s4tnjn4dvu0djata2hou3g, “c6s5s4tnjn4dvu0djata2hou3g” does not work in Email subscription
Shane
Thank you
Joe Jenkins
I have the same problem as Tony Yang.
My Feedeburner ID is 9pk81ee8bjapqbpkvm206m5jbo and that doesn’t want to work with email subscription.
Joe
Joe Jenkins
It turned out to be easy, just take a look at the code for the subscription link and it is there.
mailverify?uri=Indie-filminfo
So my one was – Indie-filminfo
Hope that helps :)
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Adrián Villa
Thannnks, just what i was looking for
callum
thanks for this!
bart louwagie
Hi,
The feedburner ID is these days indeed (apparently) the last part of what feedburner shows as the
To get there, go to feedburner.com
Click on “My feeds”
Then click on the feed you are working on.
Then click on “Edit Feed details”
Then you will see the line that says
Feed Address: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ (Your FeedBurner feed)
You need to part after http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ for your Wordpress email feed settings.
That worked perfectly for me in the Atahualpa theme
Bart
Teresa
Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for the help…
:)
~A Newbie~
Scott W
Thanks for this in plain English! ~Scott
Sudeep Acharya
Thanks friend it helped me.
Thanks
Sudeep Acharya
Nicholas Dambrosio
This post and many of your other posts have been a big help, keep up the good work!
Thanks again!
Nick