A Downside To Moving To MovableType - RSS Subscribers
One of the rather annoying downsides to moving from Wordpress to MovableType is that you may end up losing a lot of your feed subscribers.
Even if you have been redirecting your site's feeds to a 3rd party service such as Feedburner a lot of people will still have subscribed to the non-feedburner URLs which are not present in MovableType.
The best solution to combat this is to write some custom mod_rewrite rules to force people's readers to go to the correct URL - either that of your Feedburner feed or the standard Movable Type RSS locations.
I'm still working on a sane .htaccess hack to make this happen and will post it once I have done so, but if anyone has any ideas or suggestions in the meantime I'd love to hear them.
Even if you have been redirecting your site's feeds to a 3rd party service such as Feedburner a lot of people will still have subscribed to the non-feedburner URLs which are not present in MovableType.
The best solution to combat this is to write some custom mod_rewrite rules to force people's readers to go to the correct URL - either that of your Feedburner feed or the standard Movable Type RSS locations.
I'm still working on a sane .htaccess hack to make this happen and will post it once I have done so, but if anyone has any ideas or suggestions in the meantime I'd love to hear them.
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Hi - I documented how to do this in MT a while back. I haven't looked at MT4 yet, but my guess is that the approach is similar:
http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2005/06/02/for-mike-redirecting-feed-subscribers-in-movable-type-to-feedburner.php
Hope that helps.
--Rick Klau
Google
(former VP, pub services at FeedBurner)
Rick
Thanks for the tip.
The problem was the extra URLs that WP uses for RSS, as they are not present in MT. The solution was to use Byrne's new plugin for mapping any 404s:
http://www.majordojo.com/projects/clean-sweep.php
Regards
Michele