A quick little tutorial to show how to add a little RSS button to the browser bar when people visit your site.

1. Go to Run-Digital.com to get their RSS Feed Manager for Joomla! (Click here to get it). Install it as a component.
2. Take the url of your RSS feed from the component and go to FeedBurner.com. Sign up and register your feed. They should give you an easy to remember and customize URL. Ours is simply: http://feeds.feedburner.com/alledia
3. Add the following code to the head of your template:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://your_rss_feed" />

If you want different RSS Feeds available on each page you will need to copy your template and assign the copies to the right pages unless someone can come up with a clever work-around....

Thanks to Sam over at SiteCoffee.com for tips with this. 

On 1.5, you'll need to turn off the default RSS feeds by going to Menus >> Main Menu >> Parameters (Advanced) >> Show a Feed Link >> No

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Gonzalo ibarra

July 29, 2008

Thanks a lot for this tip. Really work fine for me.

Daniel Mundy

November 18, 2008

Works great, do you know how to remove the two default feeds from the front page? (RSS2 and ATOM1) At present I have to *hope* people choose the Feedburner link... and if they choose one of the built-in feeds then I have no way of tracking visitors. (using Joomla 1.5 and all native-mode plugins)

Thanks,
Daniel Mundy

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