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How to Find Your FeedBurner Email Subscription Link

Zack — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:23:27 +0000

It’s a good way to let your blog readers to subscribe your blog via email, you can do this easily with FeedBurner. FeedBurner offers you a subscription form for your readers to subscribe, but sometimes we want to design our own way for subscription, maybe use a button or what. We need a link for this, we can find it in Feedburner, let me show you.

First of all, you need to activate email subscription of your feed. Go to Publicize page of your feed in Feedburner, click Email Subscriptions on the left hand side, you will see the email subscription page, there is a Activate button in the bottom, click it to activate email subscription. And then you will see some codes in the middle of the page, look closer to the codes, you will find something like this:

window.open(‘http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=ZackLive’, ‘popupwindow’, ‘scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520′);

While ‘ZackLive’ in the code, is my feed name. The link in this code:

http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=ZackLive

is the email subscription link, you can test it by paste it in your browser, you will be asked to input your email to subcribe, that’s what we want.

The email subscription link can be used, for example, you have a cool email image, you can set the link to this image, when readers click on the image, they will go to subscription page, and then Feedburner will take care other things.

iTech Theme: Free WordPress Theme for Gadgets and Tech Blogs

Zack — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:23:00 +0000

I just started a new gadgets blog Gearor.com, so I design a new theme for it, iTech Theme. This is a high quality, low graphics, Lightweight, fast-rendering and professional WordPress Theme, inspired by SixRevisions, especially good for technology and gadgets blogs. A tabbed block is added to sidebar for displaying Recent Posts, Popular Posts and Recent Comments. Built in control panel(Theme Options), you can set customized RSS feed, email subscription, twitter subscription and header logo. Compatible with WordPress 2.7 and above(including 2.8.6), support threaded (nested) comments, sticky-post and comment pages.

Tabbed block is added to sidebar for displaying Recent Posts, Popular Posts and Recent Comments in a small amont of space.

Subscriptions of RSS feed, Email and Twitter is placed at the top navigation bar and can be customized in admin panel(Theme Settings):

There are total 6 setting you can customized:

RSS Feed Title
Custom RSS Feed: URL of customized RSS feed, you can put your Feedburner Feed here.
Email Subscription: For Feedburner users, you need to enable this function in Publicize settings in Feedburner. And then change ZackLive to your Feedburner id. If you have any troubles with this settings, feel free to contact me by commenting below.
Twitter Subscription: Enter your Twitter name here.
Logo URL: Enter the URL of your logo, your can upload it to your server or image hostings like Flickr, and then copy and paste the link here.
Show Description or not: Sometime you don’t want your description to be displayed, while you are using image logo, just check this, your description will not be showed.

Download iTech WordPress Theme

iTech theme in action on Gearor.com

iTech WordPress theme is released under GPL License.

Please let me know if you found any bugs.

Thanks to Dan Breslau for helping me with bugs. I’ve learned a lot from Dan.

My WordPress Themes Updated

Zack — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:16:47 +0000

New update:

I’ve created two WordPress themes, the Gray Lines WordPress Theme and the BlacknWhite WordPress Theme. I updated them today for WordPress 2.7(also 2.8), supporting threaded (nested) comments, sticky-post and comment pages. And added a control panel which you can set your own RSS feed and your logo image.

Download:

Gray Lines WordPress Theme

BlacknWhite WordPress Theme