Posted 4 years ago #
I asked this question eariler, but I think I said it wrong. I am looking to see if there is anybody that subscribes to my personal blog feed (not the feed to my questions in this forum)
I have a wordpress blog here
http://www.christianpreschoolprintables.com/blog1
and in my stats its showing that the feed page is getting hits, but I want to know if that means actual subscribers or what? Is there somewhere I can check this function?
Thanks, I appreciate it,
Valerie
Posted 4 years ago #
Oh, wait I get it now, moshu, you were telling me how to find my previous post.....lol....sorry....I thought you were telling me how to see if people were subscribing to my question feed.....Sorry about that....:)
Anyway, I'm still wondering about finding who or if anyone subscribes to my blog feed....anyone?
I wonder about this, too! I don't know where to go to find out.
I don't even know if I have a feed page! Should I fill out a form for one? I know I have rss symbols.
Posted 4 years ago #
It's kind of hard to monitor exactly who reads your feed. You can read your server-log stats or any other stats for a clue of incoming referrers but it doesn't break out feed subscribers.
One way to do it is to use Feedburner which is a website, that you can send all your feeds thru them using a WP plugin and it counts your subscribers and gives you stats. Some people like it, some don't, I don't use it myself as of yet.
@dawer you have a feed (actually several feeds) automatically. If you just click on one of the RSS symbols it probably will display the raw feed code in Firefox, but anyway, you could right-click the symbol and copy the address and then subscribe to it with a feed reader
DGold, thanks! I notice on my Sitemeter, on the Entry Page section, some visitors stats say: mysite/pagetitle/#comment-24, and go up each time it happens, like #comment-25, etc. Since I only have 17 comments, I think this may be a person/persons who subscribed to comments. I'm just wildly guessing.
It gives me my own post titles when I click on it, but nothing about other people subscribing. I'll look at the plugin, thanks.
I also get confused with this and with the Subscribe to Comments plugin. I thought I would automatically get my comments mailed to me, but no. I have to visit my own page. But I don't know why someone would sign up for Subscribe to Comments when they could get it from Rss. Is there a difference?
Since I only have 17 comments, I think this may be a person/persons who subscribed to comments.
Nope. Those are propbably trackback spam (and, eventually, comment spam) caught by your anti-spam plugins and eliminated, but the numbering being incremental... your next real comment will have #26.
Moshu, thanks!
It took me a couple of days to realize that WP was very efficient, and has a tab marked Subscriptions, under the Manage tab! And it also gives me all comments, under Comments! Things were happening that I didn't know about!
Never found out what the Sitemeter was talking about...
One thing about Subscribe to Comments: When I look at the comment box, all I see is a box. No text that tells anyone they can subscribe. Even when I log out, and come back, the box does not say what it does. Is this a bug?
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