From Away

Prior to my switch to Simplelog as my blogging platform, I had built up a decent readership at this site. After the switch, a my feed URL changed, so naturally I popped on over to Feedburner and updated my URL. In the following weeks, I noticed that the number of readers of my feed had been almost cut in half. I was pretty sure I hadn’t written anything that would have offended that many people, so I started investigating a little further.

Then it hit me, there were probably a lot of people that were still subscribed to my (very old) feed URL from my Wordpress days that was being redirected toward my Feedburner URL. I just needed to find a way to graceful 301 redirect this URL to Feedburner. Since there was no way to do this (currently) in Simplelog interface, I wrote my own plugin to suit my needs.

It was a relatively simple task, and using my routing method that I had used in the Contact Mailer Plugin made the configuration of this new plugin dead easy.

This plugin is not only useful for redirecting feed urls. It can be configured to redirect any URL relative to your Simplelog domain (including files, static HTML, and PHP).

Simply download, unzip this file, and drop the folder into your vendor/plugins directory and follow the instructions in the included README file.